Half of Bugarach is over 53.3, older than 91% of compared French towns
The figure for flats is 4.2% in Bugarach and 30% in the typical compared French town. Across Bugarach, 0.7% of households rent social housing (HLM). This Aude town has fewer couples with children than 84% of compared French towns, at 17%. The 2023 Census counted 250 residents in 130 households.
Throughout this page, the Aude median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
What stands out about the people of Bugarach
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 48 second homes and occasional dwellings in Bugarach, 24% of its 200 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 96% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Many people living alone
51% of Bugarach’s households are one person: higher than in 95% of compared French towns; 45% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
An older town
Half of Bugarach’s residents are under 53.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 28% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.2% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 0 immigrants in Bugarach (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 16% of residents, against 6% for the median compared commune in Aude. 14% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 94% of compared French towns: 24% of homes are second homes
Every home the census counted: main residences, second homes and occasional dwellings (INSEE counts them together), and empty homes. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
All homes · share of homes
Type of home
Cars per household · share of households
One household in 12 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Compared with other places, empty homes are common here: 13%, more than in 91% of compared French towns. Second homes make up 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Census figures put households without a car at 8.1% in Bugarach.
A +19% change since 2012: Bugarach grew faster than 89% of compared French towns
Residents at INSEE’s last three censuses, each recast in the 2026 commune boundaries. France has no yearly estimate by commune between censuses.
2012 to 2023
2017 to 2023
From 2012 to 2017 the change was +9%; from 2017 to 2023, +10%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Aude town +4%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 2.6%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bugarach 53.3. The median compared French town: 44.
22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, against 28% in Bugarach. Set beside that, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Bugarach, 51% of households are one person living alone, more than in 95% of compared French towns
A household is everyone who shares a main home (résidence principale). Household types come from INSEE’s fuller sample of a quarter of census forms.
Against the Aude median and the France median
Living alone · share
The share of single-parent households is 11%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. There are 1.9 people in the average household. Typically, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €15,820 a year
The standard of living (niveau de vie) is a household’s disposable income after taxes and benefits, divided by its consumption units (UC) to allow for its size and make-up: 1 for the first adult, 0.5 for each other person 14 or older, 0.3 for each child under 14.
Medians of compared communes. Source: INSEE, Filosofi 2023.
The median standard of living in Bugarach is €15,820 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 99% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a retired person than 91% of compared French towns: 43%
Households by the socio-professional group (PCS) of their reference person, INSEE’s own categories. Jobs and commuting are on the Work & commute page.
Households by reference person’s group · share of households
By its share of households headed by a manual worker (11%), Bugarach is below 72% of compared French towns. Locally, one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional. To put it in context, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Bugarach, 16% of residents are immigrants, more than in 86% of compared French towns
INSEE publishes two measures, which overlap but aren’t the same. Neither is the UK’s “born abroad”.
Share of residents · census 2023
Immigrant (immigré)
Born abroad, not French at birth. Someone stays an immigrant after becoming French. A French citizen born abroad (for example in Algeria before 1962) is not one.
Foreign national (étranger)
Not a French citizen today, wherever born. A child born in France to foreign parents can be a foreign national without being an immigrant.
By its share of foreign nationals (14%), Bugarach is above 91% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
38% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 79% of compared French towns
Residents 15 and over by how they live: the census asks both the legal status and whether people live as a couple.
Residents 15 and over · share
25% of residents 15 and over are single, or about one in four. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
More graduates of higher education than 82% of compared French towns: 41%
Highest diploma of residents 15 and over who have left education, in French terms: the levels don’t map one-to-one to UK or U.S. ones.
Highest diploma · 15 and over, out of education
Against a figure of 19% in the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification in Bugarach comes in at 15%. In the typical compared French town, graduates of higher education come to 30%.
Among 41 French towns of 250 to 2,582 people, the 7th oldest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Bugarach is younger than 1 of its 2 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Census 2023. INSEE’s census is a rolling survey: a fifth of small communes each year, 8% of homes in large ones each year. “2023” pools the surveys of 2021 to 2025, so the figures describe the town around 2023, not on one day.
- Medians of compared communes. The comparisons are the median of the département’s compared communes and of France’s (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median: not the total for the département or for France, which large cities pull towards their own figures.
- Immigrants and foreign nationals. INSEE’s two measures: an immigrant was born abroad without French nationality; a foreign national isn’t French today. Neither is a count of people born abroad, which INSEE doesn’t publish by commune.
- Second homes. Homes used for holidays or weekends, with occasional dwellings (kept for work, for example), which INSEE counts together. Their owners are counted where they live, not here.
- Standard of living. INSEE’s Filosofi: disposable income per consumption unit, from tax and benefit files, 2023. The poverty rate is the share of residents below 60% of France’s median. Not published for the smallest communes.
- What France doesn’t ask. The French census asks nothing about ethnicity, religion, language or health, so this page has no such section.
Questions about who lives in Bugarach
What is the population of Bugarach?
250 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 19% more than in 2012 (210).
How old are Bugarach’s residents?
The median age is 53.3, older than 91% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bugarach?
48, with occasional dwellings: 24% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bugarach?
INSEE counts 39 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 16% of residents, and 35 foreign nationals (14%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bugarach?
€15,820 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970). Source: INSEE, Filosofi.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, ages, households, homes, marital status, diplomas, immigrants, foreign nationals, employment), 2026 geography · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (standard of living, poverty) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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