Fewer flats than 99% of compared French towns: 2.7%
Set against 12% in the typical compared French town, 3% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Labéjan. For Labéjan, the census puts households without a car at 3.8%. Compared with other places, households headed by a manager or professional are common here: 19%, more than in 87% of compared French towns. This Gers town counted 290 residents and 130 households at the 2023 Census.
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 Labéjan
Fewer residents than in 2012
Labéjan had 342 residents at the 2012 census and 290 in 2023, down 15%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower than most: −15% since 2012, behind 99% 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 −11% from 2012 to 2017 and −4% from 2017 to 2023.
Older than 72% of compared French towns: half of Labéjan is over 47.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Labéjan 47.5. The median compared French town: 44.
9.3% of residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 64% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
In Labéjan, 27% of households are couples with children, more than in 59% 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
Households average 2.2 people. Measured more widely, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. One-person households make up 35%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Empty homes make up 2.7% in Labéjan, less than in 97% of compared French towns
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
The share of second homes tops 84% of compared French towns: 7.5%. To put it in context, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. 26% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 9.8% moved in within the last two years.
Median standard of living: €26,470 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.
The median standard of living in Labéjan is €26,470 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 55% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 7.7%, a lower share than 88% 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
The share of households headed by a retired person tops 62% of compared French towns: 35%. Typically, 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).
A smaller share of foreign nationals than 88% of compared French towns: 1.4%
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.
Against a figure of 6.5% in the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants in Labéjan comes in at 3.1%. That is lower than in 81% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Gers has 7.9%. For comparison, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
23% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 68% 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
At 44%, the share of married residents is higher than in 58% of compared French towns. Against that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
13% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 83% 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
The figure for graduates of higher education is 34% in Labéjan and 30% in the typical compared French town. The share of adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town is 19%.
15th highest median age among 41 French towns of 290 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Older than Labéjan: 2 of the 3 towns nearby
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 Labéjan
What is the population of Labéjan?
290 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% fewer than in 2012 (342).
How old are Labéjan’s residents?
The median age is 47.5, older than 72% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Labéjan?
11, with occasional dwellings: 7.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Labéjan?
INSEE counts 9 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.1% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (1.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Labéjan?
€26,470 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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