Saramon ranks below 96% of compared French towns on households in social housing: 2.5%
The share of single-parent households is 5.7%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. The 2023 Census put Saramon’s population at 864, in 440 households. 8.8% of residents are 15 to 24. Few places have so few households without a car: 7.1% here, fewer than in 72% 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 Saramon
One home in 10 is a second home
The census counted 61 second homes and occasional dwellings in Saramon, 10% of its 590 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 72% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Empty homes
The census found 90 homes empty (15%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Empty homes: 15%, a higher share than 95% 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 flats is 13%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. For empty homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.7%. The census found that 10% of homes are second homes in Saramon.
Saramon’s population changed by +5% since 2012, more than in 50% 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
A median age of 48.1: Saramon is older than 75% 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
■ Saramon 48.1. The median compared French town: 44.
26% of residents are 65 or over (typical compared French town: 22%).
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Fewer couples with children than 78% of compared French towns: 19%
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
Compared with 35% in the typical compared French town, 43% of households are one person living alone here. A household here holds 2 people on average. For comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
€24,680 a year: the median 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €24,680 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 64% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 37% in Saramon, more than in 72% 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
In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker; in Saramon, 12%. More households headed by a manager or professional than in 53% of compared French towns: 10%. As a yardstick, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 5.9% of Saramon’s residents
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.
The median compared commune in Gers has 7.9%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 55% of compared French towns. Put another way, about one in 17: 5.9% of residents are immigrants. Foreign nationals: 4.8%, near enough the figure 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.
In Saramon, 39% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 74% 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
Single residents: 27% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. On average, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 75% of compared French towns, at 15%
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
Where 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, Saramon has 27%. Adults with no qualification make up 19% in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 864 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Saramon is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Saramon
What is the population of Saramon?
864 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (824).
How old are Saramon’s residents?
The median age is 48.1, older than 75% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saramon?
61, with occasional dwellings: 10% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saramon?
INSEE counts 51 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.9% of residents, and 41 foreign nationals (4.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saramon?
€24,680 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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