Half of Ginoles is over 62.9, older than 99% of compared French towns
Single-parent households: 3% here and 10% in the typical compared French town. 6.1% of homes are flats, a lower share than in 94% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 296 residents in 160 households. In Ginoles, 53% of households are headed by a retired person.
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 Ginoles
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 49 second homes and occasional dwellings in Ginoles, 23% of its 220 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 ↓
An older town
Half of Ginoles’ residents are under 62.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 44% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 14% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Ginoles had 364 residents at the 2012 census and 296 in 2023, down 19%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 94% of compared French towns: 23% 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
Some 11% of households are newcomers of under two years, against 34% who have been there 30 years or more. Elsewhere, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Census figures put empty homes at 1.9% in Ginoles. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Ginoles changed by −19% from 2012 to 2023, behind 99% 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
Here the change came as −17% to 2017, then −2% to 2023. Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +4% in Aude.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 44% in Ginoles, more than in 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
■ Ginoles 62.9. The median compared French town: 44.
In Ginoles, 5.7% of residents are 15 to 24, beside 11% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 22% of residents are 65 or over 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.
Couples with children: 16%, a lower share than 88% 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 figure for one-person households is 39% in Ginoles and 35% in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 1.8 people on average. The usual figure: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
A typical living standard of €25,860 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.
Half of residents live in households above €25,860 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 51% of compared French towns.
Only 5.3% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Ginoles
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
The share of households headed by a manual worker trails 65% of compared French towns: 12%. Households headed by a manager or professional make up 9.4% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Ginoles ranks above 82% of compared French towns on immigrants: 13%
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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Ginoles has 6.4%. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Ginoles, 14% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 99% 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
Just over half of residents 15 and over are married; in the typical compared French town the figure is 43%. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Graduates of higher education: 20%, a lower share than 86% of compared French towns
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
More adults with no qualification than in 55% of compared French towns: 20%. In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 296 to 2,582 people
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Ginoles (62.9), the oldest.
Ginoles is older than every town around it
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 Ginoles
What is the population of Ginoles?
296 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 19% fewer than in 2012 (364).
How old are Ginoles’ residents?
The median age is 62.9, older than 99% of compared French towns. 8.5% are under 18 and 44% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ginoles?
49, with occasional dwellings: 23% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ginoles?
INSEE counts 39 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 13% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (6.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ginoles?
€25,860 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 November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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