28% of homes are second homes, a share 95% of compared French towns don’t reach
Where 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Vallabrix has 6.2%. At 3%, the share of households without a car is lower than in 99% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 414 residents in 180 households. A quarter of households are headed by a manual worker, or about one in four.
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 Vallabrix
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 76 second homes and occasional dwellings in Vallabrix, 28% of its 280 homes: higher than in 95% 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 ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A lower share of flats than 96% of compared French towns, at 4.8%
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
Turnover: 11% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 24% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. There is little gap on empty homes: 7%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
Vallabrix changed by +4% from 2012 to 2023, behind 53% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Gard town +7%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +9%; from 2017 to 2023, −4%.
Half of Vallabrix 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
■ Vallabrix 47.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, or about one in five.
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%.
A lower share of single-parent households than 99% of compared French towns, at 2.7%
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: 31% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. About one in four: that is how common one-person households are in Vallabrix (27%).
The middle resident’s standard of living: €24,610 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 €24,610 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 65% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a retired person than 94% of compared French towns: 46%
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
9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town, against 5.6% in Vallabrix. The share of households headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
2.7% of residents are foreign nationals, below 69% 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.
Compared with 6.5% in the typical compared French town, 5.1% of residents are immigrants here. The comparison figure for foreign nationals is 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share lower than in 62% 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.
Vallabrix ranks below 79% of compared French towns on single residents: 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
In Vallabrix, 47% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 43% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Adults with no qualification make up 13% in Vallabrix, less than in 86% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%; Vallabrix has 32%. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
The 15th oldest of 41 French towns of 414 to 2,582 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Vallabrix is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vallabrix | 47.1 | 22% | 28% | 5.1% |
| Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie 3,173 · 2.2 mi | 54.1 | 34% | 12% | 6.5% |
| Uzès 8,519 · 4.4 mi | 57.1 | 39% | 23% | 11% |
| Bagnols-sur-Cèze 18,112 · 9.7 mi | 45.8 | 26% | 2.5% | 14% |
| Laudun-l'Ardoise 6,835 · 9.9 mi | 37.8 | 17% | 3.1% | 6.2% |
| Poulx 4,348 · 11 mi | 49 | 24% | 2.7% | 4.8% |
| Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres 2,996 · 11.2 mi | 41 | 18% | 2% | 5.3% |
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 Vallabrix
What is the population of Vallabrix?
414 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (398).
How old are Vallabrix’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 Vallabrix?
76, with occasional dwellings: 28% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Vallabrix?
INSEE counts 21 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.1% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (2.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Vallabrix?
€24,610 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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