One-person households make up 23% in Roaillan, less than in 98% of compared French towns
The share of households without a car is 5.7%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. In Roaillan, 3.9% of homes are flats. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 1,810 residents in 740 households.
Throughout this page, the Gironde 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 Roaillan
Growing fast
Roaillan had 1,481 residents at the 2012 census and 1,810 in 2023, up 22%: faster growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A town of families
34% of households are couples with children and 11% single parents with children; 20% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +22% change since 2012: faster than 92% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and +16% for the median Gironde town, the change came in two steps: +15% from 2012 to 2017, then +6% to 2023.
9% of residents are 15 to 24, below 82% 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
■ Roaillan 44.4. The median compared French town: 44.
A fifth of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%. By contrast, with a median age of 44.4, Roaillan is older than 52% of compared French towns. Typically, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 34%, a higher share than 89% 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 Gironde median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 2.4 people. By way of comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Roughly one in ten: 11% of households are single parents.
96% of homes are houses
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
Without a car: one household in 18, against 11% in the median compared French town. Second homes make up about one in 38 here (2.6%).
The median resident lives on €28,590 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.
Half of Roaillan’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €28,590 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 75% of compared French towns.
16% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 79% 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
10% of households are headed by a manual worker; in the typical compared French town the figure is 14%. The comparison figure for households headed by a manager or professional is 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a retired person: 30% of the total.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Roaillan ranks below 83% of compared French towns on immigrants: 2.9%
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 Gironde has 5.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 83% of compared French towns. Locally, 1.6% of residents are foreign nationals. Immigrants make up 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 17% of residents 15 and over are single in Roaillan
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
Married residents make up 51%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Only 11% of adults out of school have no qualification in Roaillan
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
By its share of graduates of higher education (39%), Roaillan is above 76% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 16th youngest of 41 French towns of 1,810 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 4 are older than Roaillan
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 Roaillan
What is the population of Roaillan?
1,810 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 22% more than in 2012 (1,481).
How old are Roaillan’s residents?
The median age is 44.4, older than 52% of compared French towns. 25% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Roaillan?
21, with occasional dwellings: 2.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Roaillan?
INSEE counts 52 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.9% of residents, and 29 foreign nationals (1.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Roaillan?
€28,590 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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