Older than 94% of compared French towns: half of Berdoues is over 55.3
Single-parent households: 4.9%, below 99% of compared French towns. On the census count, 0.8% of homes are flats. At 17%, the share of households headed by a manager or professional is higher than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 424 residents in Berdoues, living in 210 households.
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 Berdoues
Fewer residents than in 2012
Berdoues had 473 residents at the 2012 census and 424 in 2023, down 10%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Berdoues’ residents are under 55.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 32% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9.4% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
−10% since 2012: slower than 97% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Gers town ±0%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 6.6%, a lower share than 98% 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
■ Berdoues 55.3. The median compared French town: 44.
32% of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%. Typically, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Below 68% of compared French towns: 32% of households are one person living alone
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
On average, 2.1 people share a household. One-person households: 35% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. 24% of households are couples with children, a lower share than in 55% of compared French towns.
Only 5.8% of households have no car in Berdoues
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. Elsewhere, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Second homes make up about one in 24 here (4.2%). Compared with 6.7% in the typical compared French town, 8.4% of homes stand empty here.
Median standard of living: €25,420 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €25,420 a year: lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
Berdoues sits below 90% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (7.3%)
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
Lower than in 54% of compared French towns: 32% of households are headed by a retired person. Elsewhere, 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).
Berdoues: 8.5% of residents are immigrants, above 63% 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 median compared commune in Gers has 7.9%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 63% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Here, 5% 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.
Single residents: 17%, a lower share than 99% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Berdoues has 51%. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 61% of compared French towns, at 27%
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
Compared with 19% in the typical compared French town, 17% of adults out of school have no qualification here. Typically, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 5th 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.
Berdoues 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 Berdoues
What is the population of Berdoues?
424 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% fewer than in 2012 (473).
How old are Berdoues’ residents?
The median age is 55.3, older than 94% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Berdoues?
10, with occasional dwellings: 4.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Berdoues?
INSEE counts 36 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.5% of residents, and 21 foreign nationals (5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Berdoues?
€25,420 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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