Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domainHalf of Bouillargues is over 48.6, older than 78% of compared French towns
The figure for one-person households is 31% in Bouillargues and 35% in the typical compared French town. At 5.8%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in 83% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 6,070 residents in 2,730 households. On the census count, 6.9% of households have no car.
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.
Bouillargues changed by −3% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 80% 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
The change was +1% from 2012 to 2017 and −4% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Gard town +7%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 62% of compared French towns: 24%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bouillargues 48.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Against a figure of 11% in the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Bouillargues comes in at 10%. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Bouillargues ranks below 70% of compared French towns on single-parent households: 8.8%
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 typical household size is 2.2 people. Couples with children account for 26%. In the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households is 10%.
A lower share of flats than 74% of compared French towns, at 17%
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
The share of second homes is 1.1%, against 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few empty homes: 5.6% here, fewer than in nearly two thirds of compared French towns. For flats, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €26,990 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.
At €26,990 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 61% of compared French towns. 12.0% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Only 9.7% of households are headed by a manual worker in Bouillargues
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
The share of households headed by a retired person tops 64% of compared French towns: 35%. Households headed by a manager or professional make up about one in 11 here (9.2%). As a reference point, 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).
Only 2.7% of residents are foreign nationals in Bouillargues
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.
Put another way, about one in 16: 6.2% of residents are immigrants. 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.
More married residents than 91% of compared French towns: 50%
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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, a fifth of residents 15 and over are single in Bouillargues. For married residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Bouillargues: 33% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, above 59% 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
The census found that 18% of adults out of school have no qualification in Bouillargues. By way of comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 6,000 to 6,144 people: this is the 7th 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 Mondonville (35.5), the youngest, and Le Barcarès (63.7), the oldest.
Of the 6 towns nearest Bouillargues, 1 are older
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 Bouillargues
What is the population of Bouillargues?
6,070 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (6,240).
How old are Bouillargues’ residents?
The median age is 48.6, older than 78% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bouillargues?
31, with occasional dwellings: 1.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bouillargues?
INSEE counts 370 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 170 foreign nationals (2.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bouillargues?
€26,990 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 12.0% 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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