A villa in the sun… The number of second homes in the Paca region has quadrupled over the past 50 years, has established
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At the same time, the population of the region, with just over 5 million inhabitants today, has only increased by 50%.
In detail, it is in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (x 6.5) and the Var (x 4.8) that the number of second homes has increased the most. The Bouches-du-Rhône, seeing their number "only" multiplied by 2, is the department where they have been less numerous over the past 50 years.
Note also that if the population has increased by a factor of 1.5, the number of main residences has been multiplied by 2, which means smaller households.
Another element put forward by INSEE on the 2018 vintage statistical databases of the population census, the majority of households in the region live in an apartment.
However, a declining proportion, with more than 60% of residents living in an apartment in 1968, against a little over 50% today.
A rate that remains, however, well above the national average, where 40% of French people said they live in an apartment.
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