Only 11% of households are couples with children in Arrigas
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (5.2%), Arrigas is below 99% of compared French towns. In Arrigas, 4.2% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Few places have so few flats: 8.1% here, fewer than in 90% of compared French towns. The town had 219 residents in 110 households at the 2023 census.
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 Arrigas
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 150 second homes and occasional dwellings in Arrigas, 56% of its 270 homes: higher than in 98% 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 Arrigas’ residents are under 54.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 4.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 56% of its 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
In the typical compared French town, 6.7% of homes stand empty; in Arrigas, 3.9%. Lower than in 91% of compared French towns: 4.5% of households have no car. The share of second homes in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. Households that moved in under two years ago: 12%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 12%.
A +9% change since 2012: faster than 66% 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 +5% to 2017, then +4% to 2023.
Older than 93% of compared French towns: half of Arrigas is over 54.1
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Arrigas 54.1. The median compared French town: 44.
30% of Arrigas’ residents are 65 or older, against 24% in the median Gard town and 22% in the median compared French town; 15% are under 18.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
More single-parent households than 99% of compared French towns: 17%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%; Arrigas has 33%. On average, 2 people share a household. Single-parent households make up 10% in the typical compared French town.
A median standard of living of €23,110 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 €23,110 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 81% of compared French towns.
In Arrigas, 9.6% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 79% 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
Households headed by a retired person account for 32%. The wider picture: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 6.8% of Arrigas’ residents
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 a share higher than in 52% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Gard has 6.6%. Put another way, about one in 15: 6.8% of residents are immigrants. Foreign nationals are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 4.4%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Married residents make up 47% in Arrigas, more than in 77% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%; Arrigas has 28%. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
A higher share of graduates of higher education than 79% of compared French towns, at 40%
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
In Arrigas, 14% of adults out of school have no qualification, beside 19% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 7th 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).
Arrigas sits below 1 of its 2 closest neighbors on median age
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 Arrigas
What is the population of Arrigas?
219 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (201).
How old are Arrigas’ residents?
The median age is 54.1, older than 93% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Arrigas?
150, with occasional dwellings: 56% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Arrigas?
INSEE counts 15 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.8% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (4.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Arrigas?
€23,110 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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