Photo: Daniel CULSAN · CC BY-SA 4.0Aigues-Mortes: 20% of homes are second homes, above 93% of compared French towns
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (8.6%), Aigues-Mortes is below 87% of compared French towns. Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 69% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 8,699 people lived here, in 3,990 households. 10% of households rent social housing (HLM), or about one in ten.
Throughout this page, the Gard 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 Aigues-Mortes
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 1,090 second homes and occasional dwellings in Aigues-Mortes, 20% of its 5,390 homes: higher than in 93% of compared French towns. 64% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Aigues-Mortes sits below 63% of compared French towns for empty homes (5.7%)
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 eight has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. For comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Households that moved in under two years ago: 12%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 14%. Lower than in 52% of compared French towns: 28% of homes are flats.
Aigues-Mortes changed by +2% from 2012 to 2023, behind 63% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +7% in Gard. Here the change came as −3% to 2017, then +4% to 2023.
A median age of 49.4: Aigues-Mortes is older than 81% 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
■ Aigues-Mortes 49.4. The median compared French town: 44.
27% of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Aigues-Mortes, 33% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 62% 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 Gard median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.2 people. As a reference point, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. One in ten households are single parents, a lower share than in 57% of compared French towns. Little separates the share of couples with children here, 25%, from the figure in the typical compared French town.
The median resident lives on €25,940 a year per consumption unit
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 Aigues-Mortes’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,940 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 50% of compared French towns. Below the poverty line: 15.0% of residents.
36% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 68% 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
Here 12% of households are headed by a manual worker, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 14%. By way of comparison, 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 Aigues-Mortes, 3.3% of residents are foreign nationals, fewer than in 60% 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.
Immigrants make up about one in 16 here (6.2%). That is lower than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Gard has 6.6%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 81% of compared French towns, at 22%
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
The share of married residents is 46%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. Typically, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A larger share of adults with no qualification than 75% of compared French towns: 24%
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
The share of graduates of higher education trails 71% of compared French towns: 24%. Measured more widely, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 8,573 to 8,825 people: this is 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.
Saint-Jory is the youngest (34.3); Le Grau-du-Roi the oldest (62.3).
Aigues-Mortes sits below 2 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aigues-Mortes | 49.4 | 27% | 20% | 6.2% |
| Le Grau-du-Roi 8,588 · 3.7 mi | 62.3 | 45% | 79% | 6.3% |
| Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze 3,690 · 4.2 mi | 48.6 | 25% | 11% | 5.1% |
| La Grande-Motte 8,440 · 5.4 mi | 62.3 | 46% | 74% | 7.3% |
| Marsillargues 6,988 · 6.5 mi | 43.3 | 22% | 6.7% | 7.4% |
| Saint-Just 3,293 · 7.2 mi | 40.5 | 16% | 1.7% | 6.1% |
| Le Cailar 2,578 · 8 mi | 44.5 | 24% | 5.1% | 3.3% |
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 Aigues-Mortes
What is the population of Aigues-Mortes?
8,699 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (8,565).
How old are Aigues-Mortes’ residents?
The median age is 49.4, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Aigues-Mortes?
1,090, with occasional dwellings: 20% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Aigues-Mortes?
INSEE counts 540 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 290 foreign nationals (3.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Aigues-Mortes?
€25,940 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 15.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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