A smaller share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 2.2%
The median age in Bézéril is 48, higher than in 74% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Bézéril was home to 105 people in 46 households. For Bézéril, the census puts one-person households at 22%. The figure for second homes is 9% in Bézéril and 2.1% in the typical compared French town.
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 Bézéril
Fewer residents than in 2012
Bézéril had 124 residents at the 2012 census and 105 in 2023, down 15%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 11% single parents with children; 13% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 99% of compared French towns: Bézéril changed by −15% 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 population moved +3%, and from 2017 to 2023 −18%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Gers town ±0%.
Bézéril sits above 90% of compared French towns for residents aged 65 and over (32%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bézéril 48. The median compared French town: 44.
On the census count, one in ten residents are 15 to 24. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Above 88% of compared French towns: 33% 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 Gers median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households is 10%; Bézéril has 11%. Couples with children make up 25% in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.3 people.
Bézéril ranks above 83% of compared French towns on empty homes: 11%
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. Long tenure is the mark of 39% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 4.3% (under two years). As a yardstick, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town.
Half above, half below €27,650 a year in standard of living
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 €27,650 a year: higher than in 67% of compared French towns.
In Bézéril, 11% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 60% of compared French towns
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 manual worker are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. 33% of households are headed by a retired person. The share of households headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Bézéril ranks above 72% of compared French towns on immigrants: 10%
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.
Put another way, about one in 21: 4.7% of residents are foreign nationals. In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 93% of compared French towns, at 20%
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 people make up 46% and PACS partners 8.7%, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 6.5% are widowed. Measured more widely, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
More adults with no qualification than 67% of compared French towns: 22%
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
The share of graduates of higher education stands at 29%. Elsewhere, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
15th highest median age among 41 French towns of 105 to 2,582
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Bézéril sits below 2 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Bézéril
What is the population of Bézéril?
105 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% fewer than in 2012 (124).
How old are Bézéril’s residents?
The median age is 48, older than 74% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bézéril?
5, with occasional dwellings: 9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bézéril?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 10% of residents, and 5 foreign nationals (4.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bézéril?
€27,650 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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