Below 99% of compared French towns: 2.2% of homes are flats
By its share of households without a car (3.3%), Garnay is below 98% of compared French towns. In Garnay, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone. On empty homes, Garnay sits lower than 96% of compared French towns: 2.9%. At the 2023 Census Garnay was home to 1,019 people in 420 households.
Throughout this page, the Eure-et-Loir 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 Garnay
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 6.3% single parents with children; 18% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Garnay grew +14% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 79% 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 population moved −2%, and from 2017 to 2023 +16%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Eure-et-Loir town −1%.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 89% of compared French towns, at 8.4%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Garnay 48.4. The median compared French town: 44.
27% of residents are 65 or over (typical compared French town: 22%). The wider picture: 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. The median age in Garnay is 48.4, higher than in just over three quarters of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Eure-et-Loir 52.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Garnay ranks above 88% of compared French towns on couples with children: 33%
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 Eure-et-Loir median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2.4 people. Lower than in 94% of compared French towns: 6.3% of households are single parents. Measured more widely, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Garnay: 3.4% of homes are second homes, above 65% of compared French towns
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, second homes come to 2.1%. 37% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 8% moved in within the last two years.
Median living standard: €27,760 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.
Living standards centre on €27,760 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 68% of compared French towns.
Below 98% of compared French towns: 2.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional
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
In Garnay, two in five households are headed by a retired person, beside 32% in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manual worker: 17% of the total. Set beside that, 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer foreign nationals than 62% of compared French towns: 3.2%
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.
The median compared commune in Eure-et-Loir has 7.5%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 58% of compared French towns. On average, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Locally, 5.6% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A larger share of married residents than 99% of compared French towns: 56%
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
Single residents make up 19%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Graduates of higher education make up 24% in Garnay, less than in 71% 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
Adults with no qualification make up about one in five here (19%). Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 15th oldest of 41 French towns this size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is younger than Garnay
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garnay | 48.4 | 27% | 3.4% | 5.6% |
| Vernouillet 12,310 · 1.5 mi | 40.7 | 21% | 1.4% | 19% |
| Dreux 31,543 · 2.6 mi | 37.2 | 17% | 1.5% | 22% |
| Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre 4,058 · 5.9 mi | 40.6 | 18% | 2.2% | 5.9% |
| Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets 4,116 · 7.7 mi | 44.6 | 24% | 2.8% | 5% |
| Nogent-le-Roi 4,021 · 9.4 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 3.1% | 8.8% |
| Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais 2,641 · 9.7 mi | 44.6 | 26% | 1.6% | 5.3% |
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 Garnay
What is the population of Garnay?
1,019 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 14% more than in 2012 (896).
How old are Garnay’s residents?
The median age is 48.4, older than 76% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Garnay?
15, with occasional dwellings: 3.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Garnay?
INSEE counts 57 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.6% of residents, and 32 foreign nationals (3.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Garnay?
€27,760 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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