Households without a car: 4.4%, a lower share than 92% of compared French towns
Where 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, Meynes has 12%. 4.7% of homes are second homes. Compared with other places, households headed by a manager or professional are scarce here: 6.7%, fewer than in 70% of compared French towns. The town is home to 2,597 residents in 1,100 households, by 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.
Faster growth than 64% of compared French towns: Meynes changed by +8% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was +2%; from 2017 to 2023, +6%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Gard town +7%.
Half of Meynes is over 44.6, older than 53% 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
■ Meynes 44.6. The median compared French town: 44.
One in ten residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 55% of compared French towns. Across Meynes, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 74% of compared French towns, at 31%
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
Couples with children: 28% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 2.3 people on average. Few places have so few single-parent households: 9.4% here, fewer than in three fifths of compared French towns.
Meynes ranks below 69% of compared French towns on empty homes: 5.4%
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 10% of households are newcomers of under two years, against 19% who have been there 30 years or more. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 6.7% of homes stand empty.
A typical living standard of €25,580 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 €25,580 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 54% of compared French towns. Poverty touches 13.0% of residents.
Meynes ranks below 75% of compared French towns on households headed by a manual worker: 10%
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
Put another way, about one in three: 32% of households are headed by a retired person. Households headed by a manual worker: 14% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 6.8% of Meynes’ 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.
The median compared commune in Gard has 6.6%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 52% of compared French towns. On the census count, 3.8% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 76% of compared French towns: 22%
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 census found that 44% of residents 15 and over are married in Meynes. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
30% of adults hold a diploma above the bac
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
Few places have so few adults with no qualification: 19% here, fewer than in just over half of compared French towns.
19th highest median age among 41 French towns of 2,578 to 2,619
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 Bourguébus (34.6), the youngest, and Bessèges (59.4), the oldest.
Meynes sits below 4 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meynes | 44.6 | 22% | 4.7% | 6.8% |
| Montfrin 3,122 · 1.7 mi | 48.1 | 26% | 7.3% | 8.1% |
| Jonquières-Saint-Vincent 3,875 · 3.6 mi | 41.8 | 21% | 2.2% | 13% |
| Redessan 4,211 · 4.7 mi | 42.7 | 20% | 1.5% | 7.6% |
| Marguerittes 8,346 · 5.8 mi | 48.6 | 27% | 1.2% | 6.6% |
| Beaucaire 15,692 · 6 mi | 45.7 | 22% | 1.6% | 18% |
| Aramon 4,081 · 6.1 mi | 47 | 25% | 4.5% | 7.7% |
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 Meynes
What is the population of Meynes?
2,597 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% more than in 2012 (2,402).
How old are Meynes’ residents?
The median age is 44.6, older than 53% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Meynes?
58, with occasional dwellings: 4.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Meynes?
INSEE counts 180 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.8% of residents, and 99 foreign nationals (3.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Meynes?
€25,580 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 13.0% 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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