Half of Lavardens is over 56.1, older than 95% of compared French towns
Here 3.5% of households have no car, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. The 2023 Census counted 363 residents in 180 households. Across Lavardens, 5.4% of households are single parents. This Gers town has fewer households in social housing than 94% of compared French towns, at 3.1%.
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 Lavardens
One home in seven is a second home
The census counted 32 second homes and occasional dwellings in Lavardens, 14% of its 240 homes: higher than in 90% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Lavardens’ residents are under 56.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 10% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Lavardens had 402 residents at the 2012 census and 363 in 2023, down 10%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Lavardens: 14% of homes are second homes, above 90% 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
Flats: 9.2%, below 88% of compared French towns. On empty homes, Lavardens sits higher than just over two thirds of compared French towns: 8.4%. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Households that moved in under two years ago: 6.8%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 29%.
Slower growth than 97% of compared French towns: Lavardens changed by −10% 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
The median Gers town changed ±0% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −4% and the next six −6%.
In Lavardens, 31% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% 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
■ Lavardens 56.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.4%, below 89% of compared French towns. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of couples with children than 92% of compared French towns, at 14%
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
There are 2 people in the average household. The usual figure: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. 37% of households are one person living alone, a higher share than in 59% of compared French towns.
Standard of living at the median: €23,280 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 residents live in households above €23,280 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 79% of compared French towns.
44% of households are headed by a retired person, a share 91% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Against a figure of 14% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker in Lavardens comes in at 8.7%. 5.1% of households are headed by a manager or professional. The benchmark for households headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town: 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
5.4% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 60% 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.
For Lavardens, the census puts foreign nationals at 4.6%. The comparison figure for immigrants is 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.
Only 38% of residents 15 and over are married in Lavardens
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 Lavardens, 26% of residents 15 and over are single. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 80% of compared French towns, at 14%
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 is 32%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 363 to 2,582 people: this is the 5th 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 old as Lavardens
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 Lavardens
What is the population of Lavardens?
363 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% fewer than in 2012 (402).
How old are Lavardens’ residents?
The median age is 56.1, older than 95% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lavardens?
32, with occasional dwellings: 14% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lavardens?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.4% of residents, and 17 foreign nationals (4.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Lavardens?
€23,280 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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