Half of Monferran-Plavès is over 59.2, older than 98% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. There were 52 households in Monferran-Plavès at the 2023 Census, home to 110 residents. 1.4% of homes are flats. Where 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Monferran-Plavès has 27%.
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 Monferran-Plavès
An older town
Half of Monferran-Plavès’ residents are under 59.2 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 ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Monferran-Plavès had 125 residents at the 2012 census and 110 in 2023, down 12%: slower growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 12 homes empty (18%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Monferran-Plavès has changed by −12%, slower than 98% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Gers town ±0%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was −4%; from 2017 to 2023, −8%.
Only 4.3% of residents are 15 to 24 in Monferran-Plavès
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Monferran-Plavès 59.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Nearly a third of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 18% in Monferran-Plavès, more than in 99% 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
In the typical compared French town, 25% of households are couples with children; in Monferran-Plavès, 18%. The average household has 2.1 people. Single-parent households: 10% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
In Monferran-Plavès, 18% of homes stand empty, more than in 98% 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
Compared with 2.1% in the typical compared French town, 4.1% of homes are second homes here. By contrast, households without a car are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. 29% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 9.1% moved in within the last two years.
A median standard of living of €25,570 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 Monferran-Plavès is €25,570 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 54% of compared French towns.
In Monferran-Plavès, 36% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 71% 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. The share of households headed by a manager or professional stands at 9.1%. For households headed by a retired person, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
11% of residents are foreign nationals, more than in 85% 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.
Immigrants make up a share higher than in three quarters of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Gers has 7.9%. In the typical compared French town, foreign nationals come to 4.3%. Against a figure of 6.5% in the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants in Monferran-Plavès comes in at 11%.
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 74% of compared French towns, at 23%
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%; Monferran-Plavès has 45%. Elsewhere, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 86% of compared French towns: 12% of adults out of school have no qualification
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%; Monferran-Plavès has 39%. As a yardstick, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 4th oldest of 41 French towns of 110 to 2,582 people
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.
Every neighbor is younger than Monferran-Plavès
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 Monferran-Plavès
What is the population of Monferran-Plavès?
110 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% fewer than in 2012 (125).
How old are Monferran-Plavès’ residents?
The median age is 59.2, older than 98% of compared French towns. 10% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Monferran-Plavès?
3, with occasional dwellings: 4.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Monferran-Plavès?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 11% of residents, and 12 foreign nationals (11%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Monferran-Plavès?
€25,570 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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