Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.2% of homes are flats
Households in social housing: 1.4% here and 12% in the typical compared French town. In 2023, the Census found 762 residents in Ginestet, living in 350 households. About one in 23: that is how common households headed by a manager or professional are in Ginestet (4.3%). Lower than in 96% of compared French towns: 7.4% of residents are 15 to 24.
Throughout this page, the Dordogne 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 Ginestet
An older town
Half of Ginestet’s residents are under 52.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 4.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Ginestet’s population moved +1% on 2012, less than in 65% 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
In two steps, −3% to 2017 and +5% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −1% in Dordogne.
A median age of 52.2: Ginestet is older than 89% 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
■ Ginestet 52.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 29%, against 22% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%.
Ginestet ranks below 99% of compared French towns on single-parent households: 2.9%
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 Dordogne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Here 27% of households are couples with children, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%. Against that, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. The share of one-person households stands at 26%.
Fewer households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 2.6%
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
Of all households, 6.9% moved in during the last two years and 32% have stayed three decades or more. In the typical compared French town, households without a car come to 11%. 7.7% of homes are second homes, more than in 85% of compared French towns. Ginestet sits close to the norm on empty homes: 6%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €25,440 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €25,440 a year: lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
43% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 90% of compared French towns
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
Put another way, about one in seven: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. 4.3% of Ginestet’s households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 43% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 3.7% in Ginestet, less than in 76% 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.
In the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals is 4.3%; Ginestet has 2.8%. The share of immigrants 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.
16% 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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 52% in Ginestet. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Ginestet ranks below 79% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 14%
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
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, 32% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Ginestet. To put it in context, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 762 to 2,582 people, the 8th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
A younger town than 4 of the 6 around it: Ginestet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ginestet | 52.2 | 29% | 7.7% | 3.7% |
| Prigonrieux 4,374 · 2.8 mi | 52.6 | 31% | 1.6% | 3.7% |
| La Force 2,702 · 3.8 mi | 50.4 | 28% | 3.4% | 4.2% |
| Bergerac 27,110 · 3.9 mi | 52.5 | 34% | 4.6% | 9.1% |
| Lamonzie-Saint-Martin 2,742 · 5 mi | 46.9 | 25% | 3.9% | 4.6% |
| Mussidan 2,771 · 9.9 mi | 55.9 | 36% | 3.9% | 5.1% |
| Pineuilh 4,490 · 11.2 mi | 53.9 | 35% | 3.2% | 9% |
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 Ginestet
What is the population of Ginestet?
762 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% more than in 2012 (753).
How old are Ginestet’s residents?
The median age is 52.2, older than 89% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ginestet?
31, with occasional dwellings: 7.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ginestet?
INSEE counts 28 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.7% of residents, and 21 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ginestet?
€25,440 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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