{"id":16041,"date":"2026-01-10T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:00:33","slug":"loccitanie-grandit-deux-fois-plus-vite-que-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/01\/10\/loccitanie-grandit-deux-fois-plus-vite-que-la-france\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Occitanie grandit deux fois plus vite que la France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>L\u2019\u00e9quivalent d\u2019une ville comme Al\u00e8s\u00a0! Chaque ann\u00e9e entre 2017 et 2023, l\u2019Occitanie qui a d\u00e9pass\u00e9 les 6,1\u00a0millions d\u2019habitants, a accueilli en moyenne 46\u00a0600\u00a0habitants suppl\u00e9mentaires. La 3<sup>e<\/sup>\u00a0croissance d\u00e9mographique (+0,8%\/an) derri\u00e8re la Guyane et la Corse, deux fois sup\u00e9rieure \u00e0 celle de l\u2019Hexagone (+0,4%\/an).<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9crypt\u00e9 dans la derni\u00e8re \u00e9tude de l\u2019Insee, le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne n\u2019est pas nouveau mais se confirme de d\u00e9cennie en d\u00e9cennie. Il s\u2019explique par les migrations (+0,9%\/an), le fait que les arriv\u00e9es en Occitanie sont tr\u00e8s sup\u00e9rieures aux d\u00e9parts. Car le solde naturel est lui d\u00e9sormais n\u00e9gatif (-0,1%\/an), c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire que l\u2019Occitanie compte plus de d\u00e9c\u00e8s que de naissances.<\/p>\n<p>Non sans disparit\u00e9s, la croissance est quasi g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. 11\u00a0d\u00e9partements sur 13 voient leur population cro\u00eetre, seuls l\u2019Aveyron et la Loz\u00e8re perdent quelques habitants (-0,1%\/an). Dans les P-O (496\u00a0855\u00a0habitants, +0,8%\/an) et le Gard (770\u00a0940\u00a0hab, +0,6%), la croissance est soutenue, port\u00e9e par les dynamiques, parfois nouvelles, des grandes villes\u00a0: Al\u00e8s (46\u00a0125\u00a0habitants, +2,3%\/an), Perpignan (121\u00a0616\u00a0hab, +0,2%) ou dans une moindre mesure N\u00eemes (151\u00a0839\u00a0hab, +0,1%).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"intext\"> Deux locomotives\n              <\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Les deux locomotives r\u00e9gionales restent incontestablement la Haute-Garonne (second d\u00e9partement de France le plus dynamique avec 1\u00a0471\u00a0468\u00a0habitants, +1,3%\/an) et l\u2019H\u00e9rault (1\u00a0230\u00a0289\u00a0hab, +1,2%), o\u00f9 le solde naturel y est aussi exc\u00e9dentaire, essentiellement gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 leurs deux m\u00e9tropoles Toulouse (514\u00a0819\u00a0habitants, +1,2%\/an) et Montpellier (310\u00a0240\u00a0habitants, +1,4%). Entre leurs universit\u00e9s, leurs organismes de recherche et leurs entreprises (a\u00e9ronautique, informatique, tertiaire&#8230;), les deux mastodontes attirent notamment les jeunes \u00e9tudiants et travailleurs. Ce n\u2019est pas le cas de toutes les grandes villes\u00a0: \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>La population diminue \u00e0 Paris, est quasiment stable \u00e0 Lyon et augmente mod\u00e9r\u00e9ment \u00e0 Marseille<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb, insiste l\u2019Insee. La dynamique qui s\u2019accro\u00eet \u00e0 Toulouse et Montpellier s\u2019\u00e9tend aussi \u00e0 leur couronne. La croissance est d\u2019ailleurs encore plus forte dans les aires urbaines (respectivement +1,4%\/an et +1,6%) que dans les villes centres.<\/p>\n<p>Signe d\u2019un \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>\u00e9talement urbain<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb toujours \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre malgr\u00e9 la loi Z\u00e9ro artificialisation nette (ZAN) des sols, la population continue aussi d\u2019augmenter dans les espaces ruraux p\u00e9riurbains, les communes rurales y \u00e9tant \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>sous influence<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb des grandes villes. \u00c0 l\u2019image de S\u00e8te (45\u00a0337\u00a0habitants, +0,8%\/an), d\u2019Al\u00e8s (46\u00a0125\u00a0hab, +2,3%) ou de Frontignan qui ont invers\u00e9 leur tendance pass\u00e9e \u00e0 la d\u00e9croissance ou \u00e0 la stabilit\u00e9, \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>la population est plus nombreuse dans la quasi totalit\u00e9 des communes de plus de 20<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>000<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>habitants<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb. La hausse reste soutenue mais ralentit \u00e0 B\u00e9ziers (81\u00a0545\u00a0habitants, +0,9%\/an) ou Narbonne (57\u00a0587\u00a0hab, +0,9%). Enfin, en raison des migrations, l\u2019attractivit\u00e9 se renforce aussi dans les espaces ruraux non p\u00e9riurbains (+0,8%\/an).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0En Occitanie, la population augmente dans la quasi totalit\u00e9 des villes de plus de 20\u00a0000 habitants\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L&rsquo;&eacute;quivalent d&rsquo;une ville comme Al&egrave;s&nbsp;! 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