2% of households have no car, below 99% of compared French towns
Households headed by a manager or professional make up 4.2%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. At the 2023 Census, 541 people lived in Sainte-Christie, in 240 households. Here, 14% of households are single parents. Flats are rarer here than in 94% of compared French towns.
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 Sainte-Christie
An older town
Half of Sainte-Christie’s residents are under 51.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 24% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Sainte-Christie had 564 residents at the 2012 census and 541 in 2023, down 4%: slower growth than in 85% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 85% of compared French towns: Sainte-Christie changed by −4% 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 compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Gers town ±0%. The change was −2% from 2012 to 2017 and −2% from 2017 to 2023.
Older than 87% of compared French towns: half of Sainte-Christie is over 51.2
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Sainte-Christie 51.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 24% of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%. On residents aged 15 to 24, 11% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 27%, a lower share than 87% 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
Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children in Sainte-Christie comes in at 24%. Average household size: 2.2 people. One-person households make up 35% in the typical compared French town.
Sainte-Christie: 3.9% of homes are second homes, above 70% 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Newcomers of less than two years account for 6.8% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 24%. Empty homes: 6.6%, near enough the figure in the typical compared French town.
A median of €26,470 a year per consumption unit
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 Sainte-Christie is €26,470 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 55% of compared French towns.
Sainte-Christie sits above 64% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (16%)
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 retired person: 34% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for households headed by a manual worker is 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 87% of compared French towns: 2.4%
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.
1.5% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Single residents: 26%, a higher share than 55% 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 Sainte-Christie, 43% of residents 15 and over are married. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Adults with no qualification make up 14% in Sainte-Christie, less than in 80% 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 share of graduates of higher education stands at 29%. On average, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (541 to 2,582 people), the 11th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Median age: 4 of the 6 towns around Sainte-Christie are older
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 Sainte-Christie
What is the population of Sainte-Christie?
541 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (564).
How old are Sainte-Christie’s residents?
The median age is 51.2, older than 87% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Sainte-Christie?
10, with occasional dwellings: 3.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Sainte-Christie?
INSEE counts 13 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 8 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Sainte-Christie?
€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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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