A median age of 60.3: Dourbies is older than 98% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Dourbies’s 110 households held 177 residents at the 2023 Census. The census found that 0.7% of homes stand empty in the town. With households headed by a retired person at 46%, Dourbies is ahead of 94% of compared French towns on that count.
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 Dourbies
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 470 second homes and occasional dwellings in Dourbies, 81% of its 580 homes: higher than in 99% of compared French towns. 97% 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 Dourbies’ residents are under 60.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 38% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
54% of Dourbies’ households are one person: higher than in 98% of compared French towns; 38% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A larger share of second homes than 99% of compared French towns: 81%
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
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 2.6% of households have no car here. Add to that, on flats, Dourbies sits lower than 96% of compared French towns: 4.8%. In the typical compared French town, second homes come to 2.1%. Newcomers of less than two years account for 14% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 14%.
A change of +4% since 2012 leaves Dourbies behind 55% 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 −15% from 2012 to 2017 and +22% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Gard town +7%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of compared French towns: 3%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Dourbies 60.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 38%, above 97% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 11% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
42% women, 58% men
About 73 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 8.2% of households are couples with children
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
Single-parent households make up 4.2%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. One-person households account for 54%. In the typical compared French town, couples with children come to 25%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €22,200 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 €22,200 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 87% of compared French towns.
Below 86% of compared French towns: 8.4% of households are headed by a manual worker
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 manager or professional stands at 8.3%. By way of comparison, 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).
Dourbies ranks below 91% of compared French towns on immigrants: 2%
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.
With foreign nationals at 1%, Dourbies is behind 94% of compared French towns on that count. The comparison figure for immigrants is 6.5% 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.
In Dourbies, 33% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 94% 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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, 27% of residents 15 and over are single in Dourbies. In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%.
Adults with no qualification make up 16% in Dourbies, less than in 68% 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
By its share of graduates of higher education (35%), Dourbies is above two thirds of compared French towns. On average, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 4th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Dourbies is older than every town around it
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 Dourbies
What is the population of Dourbies?
177 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (171).
How old are Dourbies’ residents?
The median age is 60.3, older than 98% of compared French towns. 8.1% are under 18 and 38% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Dourbies?
470, with occasional dwellings: 81% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Dourbies?
INSEE counts 4 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Dourbies?
€22,200 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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