36% of households are couples with children, more than in 95% of compared French towns
The share of households headed by a manager or professional trails 99% of compared French towns: 2.3%. 1.5% of homes are flats. At 1.7%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in 97% of compared French towns. Goos had 531 residents in 220 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 Goos
A town of families
36% of households are couples with children and 11% single parents with children; 16% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 74% of compared French towns: Goos changed by −1% since 2012
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 those years, the median Landes town changed +9% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −3%, then +2% to 2023.
A median age of 48.3: Goos is 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
■ Goos 48.3. The median compared French town: 44.
8.9% of residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Here, 23% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Below 94% of compared French towns: 25% of households are one person living alone
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
The share of single-parent households is 11%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%. Households here average 2.4 people each.
Only 3.4% of households have no car in Goos
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
Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 7.1% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 23%. Against that, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. 8.3% of homes stand empty, more than in 67% of compared French towns. Nothing unusual on second homes: 2%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €26,120 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 residents live in households above €26,120 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
22% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 88% 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
The share of households headed by a retired person tops 72% of compared French towns: 37%. The comparison figure for households headed by a manual worker is 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 2% of residents are foreign nationals in Goos
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 73% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Landes has 5.4%. The wider picture: 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Census figures put immigrants at 4.1% in Goos.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Goos, 54% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 99% 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 Goos, 21% of residents 15 and over are single, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 79% of compared French towns: 22%
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
Adults with no qualification: 14% here and 19% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (531 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Goos 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.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goos | 48.3 | 23% | 2% | 4.1% |
| Pontonx-sur-l'Adour 3,021 · 4.3 mi | 46.9 | 25% | 4.4% | 4.1% |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 3,402 · 4.8 mi | 47.7 | 24% | 2.8% | 5.2% |
| Narrosse 3,387 · 5.5 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 3% | 7.6% |
| Dax 22,109 · 7.4 mi | 49.3 | 29% | 17% | 9.7% |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax 14,481 · 7.5 mi | 51.3 | 32% | 10% | 6.6% |
| Tartas 3,169 · 8.7 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 2.8% | 3.9% |
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 Goos
What is the population of Goos?
531 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (537).
How old are Goos’ residents?
The median age is 48.3, older than 76% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Goos?
5, with occasional dwellings: 2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Goos?
INSEE counts 22 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.1% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Goos?
€26,120 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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