Households without a car: 2.5%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, the share of flats is 30%; Bours has 2.6%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 98% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 882 residents in 390 households. The share of single-parent households stands at 5.3%.
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.
+13% since 2012, a pace 77% of compared French towns didn’t match
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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Hautes-Pyrénées town ±0%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +6%; from 2017 to 2023, +6%.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 95% of compared French towns, at 7.6%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bours 48.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%. On average, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. With a median age of 48.8, Bours is older than 78% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hautes-Pyrénées 53.4%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 91% of compared French towns: 26%
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
Average household size: 2.3 people. In the typical compared French town, one-person households come to 35%. Few places have as many couples with children: 30% here, more than in three quarters of compared French towns.
Bours ranks below 70% of compared French towns on empty homes: 5.3%
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
Of all households, 3.4% moved in during the last two years and 31% have stayed three decades or more. Empty homes: 6.7% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Second homes: 1.7%, near enough the figure in the typical compared French town.
A typical living standard of €27,920 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.
Living standards centre on €27,920 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 70% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a retired person than 98% of compared French towns: 51%
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 Bours, 9.1% of households are headed by a manual worker, beside 14% in the typical compared French town. The town has fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 83% of compared French towns, at 5.3%. For comparison, nearly a third 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).
2.8% of residents are foreign nationals, below 69% 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 median compared commune in Hautes-Pyrénées has 7.4%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 54% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for foreign nationals is 4.3% in the typical compared French town. 6% of residents are immigrants, or about one in 17.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Bours, 19% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 95% 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
Compared with 43% in the typical compared French town, nearly half of residents 15 and over are married here. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
A smaller share of adults with no qualification than 89% of compared French towns: 12%
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
34% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
41 French towns of 882 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).
Bours is younger than 4 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 Bours
What is the population of Bours?
882 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% more than in 2012 (782).
How old are Bours’ residents?
The median age is 48.8, older than 78% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bours?
7, with occasional dwellings: 1.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bours?
INSEE counts 53 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6% of residents, and 24 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bours?
€27,920 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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