Bordes sits below 96% of compared French towns for households in social housing (2.2%)
Set against 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 6.1% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Bordes. In Bordes, 5.1% of homes are flats. 4.2% of homes are second homes, more than in 72% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Bordes was home to 752 people in 340 households.
Throughout this page, the Hautes-Pyrénées 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.
From 2012 to 2023, 80% of compared French towns grew faster than Bordes: −3%
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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −1%, then −1% to 2023. Over those years, the median Hautes-Pyrénées town changed ±0% and the median compared French town +5%.
Bordes sits below 61% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (10%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bordes 43.9. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 22%. With a median age of 43.9, Bordes is younger than just over half of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 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: Hautes-Pyrénées 53.4%, France 51.8%.
Bordes sits above 66% of compared French towns for couples with children (28%)
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 Hautes-Pyrénées median and the France median
Living alone · share
35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, against 32% in Bordes. As a reference point, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Single-parent households: just over a tenth of the total.
5.4% of households have no car, fewer than in 85% 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
In Bordes, one in ten homes stand empty, beside 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Typically, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Long tenure is the mark of 22% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 7.5% (under two years).
The median resident lives on €26,550 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 Bordes’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,550 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 56% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a manual worker than 76% of compared French towns, at 18%
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
On the census count, 31% of households are headed by a retired person. Typically, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 3.7% of residents are immigrants in Bordes
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 Hautes-Pyrénées has 7.4%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in just over three quarters of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%. Census figures put foreign nationals at 2.2% in Bordes.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Bordes ranks below 84% of compared French towns on single residents: 21%
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, 43% of residents 15 and over are married; in Bordes, 46%. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Adults with no qualification make up 15% in Bordes, less than in 73% 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
With graduates of higher education at 25%, Bordes is behind 70% of compared French towns on that count. By way of comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 16th youngest 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 5 are older than Bordes
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 Bordes
What is the population of Bordes?
752 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (772).
How old are Bordes’ residents?
The median age is 43.9, younger than 51% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bordes?
16, with occasional dwellings: 4.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bordes?
INSEE counts 28 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.7% of residents, and 16 foreign nationals (2.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bordes?
€26,550 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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