Beaucaire sits below 87% of compared French towns for households headed by a manager or professional (4.8%)
The figure for households without a car is 17% in Beaucaire and 11% in the typical compared French town. At 41%, the share of one-person households is higher than in 71% of compared French towns. There were 7,150 households here at the 2023 Census, home to 15,692 residents. In Beaucaire, 44% of homes are flats.
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 Beaucaire
Immigrants
INSEE counts 2,800 immigrants in Beaucaire (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 18% of residents, against 6.6% for the median compared commune in Gard. 14% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 74% of compared French towns: Beaucaire changed by −1% since 2012
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
Over those years, the median Gard town changed +7% and the median compared French town +5%.
Beaucaire is older than 61% of compared French towns: a median age of 45.7
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Beaucaire 45.7. The median compared French town: 44.
For Beaucaire, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 11%. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 51% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Beaucaire sits below 61% of compared French towns for couples with children (23%)
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
The average household has 2.2 people. On single-parent households, Beaucaire sits higher than 58% of compared French towns: 11%. In the typical compared French town, a quarter of households are couples with children.
15% of households rent social housing (HLM), a share 61% of compared French towns don’t reach
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 six has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. The comparison figure for households in social housing is 12% in the typical compared French town. Census figures put empty homes at 8.1% in Beaucaire. At 1.6%, the share of second homes is lower than in just over three fifths of compared French towns.
Median standard of living: €20,440 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.
Living standards centre on €20,440 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 95% of compared French towns. Poverty touches 30.0% of residents.
Households headed by a manual worker make up 18% in Beaucaire, more than in 77% 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
With households headed by a retired person at 34%, Beaucaire is ahead of 58% of compared French towns on that count. Set beside that, 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).
Beaucaire: 18% of residents are immigrants, above 90% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Beaucaire comes in at 14%. For comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Beaucaire sits above 59% of compared French towns for single residents (26%)
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
Beaucaire has more married residents than 57% of compared French towns, at 44%. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
A larger share of adults with no qualification than 95% of compared French towns: 32%
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
Here 18% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. In the typical compared French town, adults with no qualification come to 19%.
The 9th oldest of 41 French towns of 15,242 to 16,162 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.
Ages run from 32.8 in Montévrain to 53.2 in Biscarrosse.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 2 are older than Beaucaire
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 Beaucaire
What is the population of Beaucaire?
15,692 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (15,860).
How old are Beaucaire’s residents?
The median age is 45.7, older than 61% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Beaucaire?
120, with occasional dwellings: 1.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Beaucaire?
INSEE counts 2,760 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 18% of residents, and 2,240 foreign nationals (14%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Beaucaire?
€20,440 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 30.0% 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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