Below 96% of compared French towns: 7.4% of residents are 15 to 24
The share of households headed by a manual worker is 8.4%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. The 2023 Census put Tourbes’s population at 1,936, in 870 households. In Tourbes, just over one in ten homes are flats. Fewer households in social housing than in 94% of compared French towns: 2.9%.
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 Tourbes
One home in seven is a second home
The census counted 150 second homes and occasional dwellings in Tourbes, 14% of its 1,070 homes: higher than in 90% of compared French towns. 79% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Growing fast
Tourbes had 1,529 residents at the 2012 census and 1,936 in 2023, up 27%: faster growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 14% of its homes
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
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 5% of households have no car here. On average, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. In the last two years, one in ten households moved in; at the other end, 17% have stayed 30 years or more. Lower than in just over two thirds of compared French towns: 5.5% of homes stand empty.
Growth of +27% since 2012 puts Tourbes ahead of 95% 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
Here the change came as +6% to 2017, then +19% to 2023. Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +13% in Hérault.
Tourbes is older than 79% of compared French towns: a median age of 48.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Tourbes 48.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Here just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 29% in Tourbes, less than in 80% 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 Hérault median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. One-person households make up 35% in the typical compared French town. 7.3% of households are single parents, fewer than in 87% of compared French towns. The share of couples with children is 24%, against 25% in the typical compared French town.
Half above, half below €26,250 a year in standard of living
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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €26,250 a year: higher than in 53% of compared French towns.
Tourbes ranks above 77% of compared French towns on households headed by a retired person: 38%
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
Here 13% of households are headed by a manager or professional, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 9.4%. The usual figure: 32% 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).
Immigrants make up 8.4% in Tourbes, more than in 63% 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 census found that 5.1% of residents are foreign nationals in Tourbes. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Tourbes, 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Tourbes has 50%. The wider picture: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
In Tourbes, 13% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 86% 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
Graduates of higher education: 37% here and 30% in the typical compared French town. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
The 15th oldest of 41 French towns of 1,936 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
2 of 6 neighbors are older than Tourbes
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 Tourbes
What is the population of Tourbes?
1,936 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 27% more than in 2012 (1,529).
How old are Tourbes’ residents?
The median age is 48.9, older than 79% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tourbes?
150, with occasional dwellings: 14% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tourbes?
INSEE counts 160 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.4% of residents, and 99 foreign nationals (5.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tourbes?
€26,250 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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