Couples with children: 37%, a higher share than 96% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 236 people lived in Garrigues, in 100 households. Residents aged 65 and over account for 16%. The share of households without a car trails 98% of compared French towns: 3.2%.
Throughout this page, the Hérault 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 Garrigues
A town of families
37% of households are couples with children and 5.3% single parents with children; 11% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
Garrigues had 170 residents at the 2012 census and 236 in 2023, up 39%: faster growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Garrigues grew +39% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 99% 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
In two steps, +4% to 2017 and +33% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +13% in Hérault.
Half of Garrigues is over 48.2, older than 76% 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
■ Garrigues 48.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 13% of residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Garrigues ranks below 99% of compared French towns on one-person households: 21%
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 Hérault median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households: 5.3%, below 98% of compared French towns. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%. Households here average 2.3 people each.
Empty homes make up 2.9% in Garrigues, less than in 96% 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
Of all households, 16% moved in during the last two years and 9.5% have stayed three decades or more. 4.8% of homes are second homes, more than in 76% of compared French towns. Empty homes: 6.7% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. The figure for flats is 9.7% in Garrigues and 30% in the typical compared French town.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €31,540 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.
Half of Garrigues’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €31,540 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 90% of compared French towns.
Only 5.3% of households are headed by a manual worker in Garrigues
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 Garrigues, 21% of households are headed by a manager or professional, beside 9.4% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in three: nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 94% of compared French towns: 1.8% of residents are immigrants
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.
In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals; in Garrigues, 1.8%. The median compared commune in Hérault has 6.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 94% of compared French towns. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
More married residents than 59% of compared French towns: 44%
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
At 25%, the share of single residents is lower than in 53% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
8% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 99% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%; Garrigues has 41%. The benchmark for adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town: 19%.
Among 41 French towns of 236 to 2,582 people, 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).
Every neighbor is younger than Garrigues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrigues | 48.2 | 16% | 4.8% | 1.8% |
| Sommières 5,073 · 3.6 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 4.8% | 9.7% |
| Saint-Drézéry 3,006 · 4.7 mi | 40.9 | 17% | 1.5% | 3.8% |
| Restinclières 2,612 · 5 mi | 38 | 13% | 2.4% | 3.9% |
| Sussargues 2,840 · 5.7 mi | 46.7 | 23% | 3.8% | 3.9% |
| Aubais 2,925 · 7.4 mi | 48.1 | 24% | 8.9% | 3.1% |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers 4,979 · 7.7 mi | 44.2 | 20% | 3.6% | 7% |
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 Garrigues
What is the population of Garrigues?
236 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 39% more than in 2012 (170).
How old are Garrigues’ residents?
The median age is 48.2, older than 76% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Garrigues?
5, with occasional dwellings: 4.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Garrigues?
INSEE counts 4 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.8% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Garrigues?
€31,540 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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