Gatey sits above 97% of compared French towns for couples with children (37%)
Flats: 2%, below 99% of compared French towns. Households in social housing account for 0.6%. Gatey has more households headed by a retired person than 87% of compared French towns, at 42%. In 2023, the Census found 373 residents here, living in 160 households.
Throughout this page, the Jura 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 Gatey
A town of families
37% of households are couples with children and 6% single parents with children; 17% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
−1% since 2012, a pace below 74% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and −4% for the median Jura town, the change came in two steps: −2% from 2012 to 2017, then +1% to 2023.
A median age of 45.8: Gatey is older than 62% 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
■ Gatey 45.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 11% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 20%, a lower share than 99% 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 Jura median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.4 people each. In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%. On single-parent households, Gatey sits lower than 96% of compared French towns: 6%.
A town of second homes: 4.7% 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
One household in 14 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). The usual figure: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Here, 7% of households have no car. More empty homes than in just over three fifths of compared French towns: 7.8%.
Median living standard: €26,190 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 €26,190 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
Gatey sits below 94% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (6%)
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
Households headed by a manager or professional: 15% here and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 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).
A smaller share of immigrants than 79% of compared French towns: 3.3%
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 Jura has 7.6%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 79% of compared French towns. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. In Gatey, 3.9% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents make up 20% in Gatey, less than in 91% 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
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Gatey comes in at 50%. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Only 23% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Gatey
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
The share of adults with no qualification trails 73% of compared French towns: 15%. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 20th oldest of 41 French towns of 373 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.
5 of 6 neighbors are older than Gatey
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 Gatey
What is the population of Gatey?
373 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (377).
How old are Gatey’s residents?
The median age is 45.8, older than 62% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Gatey?
8, with occasional dwellings: 4.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Gatey?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.3% of residents, and 15 foreign nationals (3.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Gatey?
€26,190 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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