Households without a car: 1.4%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, against 5.8% in Bellegarde. Lower than in 90% of compared French towns: 7.1% of households are headed by a manual worker. At the 2023 Census, 157 people lived locally, in 67 households. Here, 6.1% of homes are second homes.
Throughout this page, the Gers 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 Bellegarde
A town of families
36% of households are couples with children and 0% single parents with children; 19% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Bellegarde had 173 residents at the 2012 census and 157 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 10 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Bellegarde’s population moved −9% on 2012, less than in 96% 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 median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Gers town ±0%. The change was +10% from 2012 to 2017 and −17% from 2017 to 2023.
7.9% of residents are 15 to 24, below 93% 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
■ Bellegarde 45.4. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Bellegarde is 45.4, higher than in nearly three fifths of compared French towns. Against that, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. On the census count, 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Bellegarde, 36% of households are couples with children, more than in 94% of compared French towns
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 Gers median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Against that, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. On the census count, 29% of households are one person living alone.
A higher share of empty homes than 89% of compared French towns, at 12%
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Typically, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Of all households, 8.6% moved in during the last two years and 26% have stayed three decades or more.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €22,240 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 Bellegarde’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €22,240 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 87% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 90% of compared French towns, at 43%
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 4.8% in Bellegarde, less than in 65% 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.
The census found that 3.6% of residents are foreign nationals in Bellegarde. Immigrants make up 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 Bellegarde, 23% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 69% 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
Married residents: 45% here and 43% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
More adults with no qualification than 55% of compared French towns: 20%
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
31% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. The benchmark for adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town: 19%.
Among 41 French towns of 157 to 2,582 people, the 21st 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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
No nearby town is as young as Bellegarde
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 Bellegarde
What is the population of Bellegarde?
157 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (173).
How old are Bellegarde’s residents?
The median age is 45.4, older than 59% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bellegarde?
5, with occasional dwellings: 6.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bellegarde?
INSEE counts 8 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.8% of residents, and 6 foreign nationals (3.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bellegarde?
€22,240 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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