Rouède ranks above 91% of compared French towns on second homes: 16%
7.6% of residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). At the 2023 Census Rouède was home to 285 people in 150 households. The census found that 18% of households are couples with children here. Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Garonne 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 Rouède
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 30 second homes and occasional dwellings in Rouède, 16% of its 190 homes: higher than in 91% of compared French towns. 93% 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 Rouède’s residents are under 51.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Fewer flats than 96% of compared French towns: 4.8%
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
Nearly one in ten households moved in less than two years ago; 24% have been in their home 30 years or more. On households without a car, Rouède sits lower than 83% of compared French towns: 5.6%. What’s more, households in social housing make up 11%, against 12% in the typical compared French town.
±0% since 2012, a pace below 70% 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
The median Haute-Garonne town changed +15% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +2% and the next six −2%.
A median age of 51.3: Rouède is older than 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
■ Rouède 51.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 26%, against 22% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Garonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 46%, a higher share than 86% 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 Haute-Garonne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2 people. By way of comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Rouède has fewer single-parent households than 88% of compared French towns, at 7.2%.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €25,250 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.
At €25,250 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 57% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 73% of compared French towns: 11%
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
Roughly three in ten: 32% of households are headed by a retired person. Households headed by a manual worker: 14% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
3.9% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 74% 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.
The figure for foreign nationals is 2.5% in Rouède and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 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.
Rouède ranks below 91% of compared French towns on married residents: 35%
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: just over a quarter of the total. Measured more widely, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Only 14% of adults out of school have no qualification in Rouède
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
Graduates of higher education: 32% here and 30% in the typical compared French town. The share of adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town is 19%.
Ranked by age, 11th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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.
Older than Rouède: 2 of the 4 towns nearby
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rouède | 51.3 | 26% | 16% | 3.9% |
| Saint-Gaudens 12,139 · 8.9 mi | 50.1 | 31% | 2.3% | 11% |
| Saint-Girons 6,008 · 14.2 mi | 51.9 | 33% | 6.7% | 9.1% |
| Cazères 4,854 · 15 mi | 44.6 | 24% | 2.5% | 7.8% |
| Montréjeau 2,648 · 16.1 mi | 53.9 | 35% | 4% | 8.1% |
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 Rouède
What is the population of Rouède?
285 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (285).
How old are Rouède’s residents?
The median age is 51.3, older than 87% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rouède?
30, with occasional dwellings: 16% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rouède?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.9% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (2.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rouède?
€25,250 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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