A higher share of second homes than 92% of compared French towns, at 17%
Where just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town, Castillon-du-Gard has 5.1%. The town counted 1,695 residents and 740 households at the 2023 Census. One-person households: 28% of the total. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
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 Castillon-du-Gard
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 160 second homes and occasional dwellings in Castillon-du-Gard, 17% of its 960 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 99% 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.
Only 6.7% of homes are flats in Castillon-du-Gard
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
Some nearly one in ten households are newcomers of under two years, against 14% who have been there 30 years or more. Put another way, about one in 17: 5.8% of homes stand empty.
Castillon-du-Gard grew +12% from 2012 to 2023, ahead of 75% 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 +11% from 2012 to 2017 and +1% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Gard town +7%.
Half of Castillon-du-Gard is over 47.1, older than 70% 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
■ Castillon-du-Gard 47.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. Residents aged 65 and over come to 22% in Castillon-du-Gard, about two in ten.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of couples with children than 75% of compared French towns, at 30%
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
Each household has 2.3 people on average. At 8.2%, the share of single-parent households is lower than in 77% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children is 25%.
A typical living standard of €28,010 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.
Half of residents live in households above €28,010 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 71% of compared French towns.
A lower share of households headed by a manual worker than 86% of compared French towns, at 8.2%
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 manager or professional make up 12%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Here, 27% of households are headed by a retired person. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manual worker come to 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer foreign nationals than 68% of compared French towns: 2.8%
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.
5.8% of residents are immigrants. That is lower than in 56% 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.
Castillon-du-Gard ranks below 97% of compared French towns on single residents: 18%
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 figure for married residents is 49% in Castillon-du-Gard and 43% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 78% of compared French towns, at 14%
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 Castillon-du-Gard, 37% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, beside 30% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,695 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Median age: 3 of the 6 towns around Castillon-du-Gard 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 Castillon-du-Gard
What is the population of Castillon-du-Gard?
1,695 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% more than in 2012 (1,513).
How old are Castillon-du-Gard’s residents?
The median age is 47.1, older than 70% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Castillon-du-Gard?
160, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Castillon-du-Gard?
INSEE counts 99 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.8% of residents, and 47 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Castillon-du-Gard?
€28,010 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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