A median age of 59.2: Gabarret is older than 98% of compared French towns
Where just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town, Gabarret has 2.9%. Households headed by a retired person account for 46%. Higher than in 87% of compared French towns: 9.1% of homes are second homes. This Landes town had 1,283 residents in 610 households at the 2023 census.
Throughout this page, the Landes 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 Gabarret
An older town
Half of Gabarret’s residents are under 59.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 42% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 16% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 140 homes empty (17%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A −3% change since 2012: slower than 81% 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
The median Landes town changed +9% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −2% and the next six −1%.
In Gabarret, 42% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% 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
■ Gabarret 59.2. The median compared French town: 44.
8.1% of residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Couples with children make up 15% in Gabarret, less than in 91% 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 Landes median and the France median
Living alone · share
One-person households make up 42%, against 35% in the typical compared French town. At the same time, on single-parent households, Gabarret sits lower than 86% of compared French towns: 7.4%. To put it in context, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Each household has 1.9 people on average.
17% of homes stand empty, more than in 97% 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
Some just over one in ten households are newcomers of under two years, against 22% who have been there 30 years or more. Fewer flats than in just over four fifths of compared French towns: 13%. The share of empty homes in the typical compared French town is 6.7%. Here, 9.5% of households have no car.
At the median, €22,940 a year to live on
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 €22,940 a year: lower than in 82% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 0.8%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
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
Compared with 14% in the typical compared French town, 16% of households are headed by a manual worker here. The wider picture: nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.8% of Gabarret’s 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.
The median compared commune in Landes has 5.4%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 52% of compared French towns. Foreign nationals account for 5.1%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Gabarret sits below 85% of compared French towns for 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
The share of married residents stands at 42%. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 98% of compared French towns, at 14%
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 Gabarret, nearly a third of adults out of school have no qualification, beside 19% in the typical compared French town. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,283 to 2,582 people), the 4th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Gabarret is older than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabarret | 59.2 | 42% | 9.1% | 6.8% |
| Eauze 4,108 · 9.9 mi | 54.2 | 33% | 8.4% | 20% |
| Villeneuve-de-Marsan 2,508 · 17.1 mi | 48.9 | 29% | 2.7% | 4.2% |
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 Gabarret
What is the population of Gabarret?
1,283 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,323).
How old are Gabarret’s residents?
The median age is 59.2, older than 98% of compared French towns. 14% are under 18 and 42% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Gabarret?
75, with occasional dwellings: 9.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Gabarret?
INSEE counts 87 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.8% of residents, and 65 foreign nationals (5.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Gabarret?
€22,940 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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