Gindou ranks above 95% of compared French towns on second homes: 31%
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. 1.5% of homes are flats. Gindou is home to 356 residents in 150 households, by the 2023 Census. Single-parent households: 6.2% here and 10% in the typical compared French town.
Throughout this page, the Lot 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 Gindou
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 79 second homes and occasional dwellings in Gindou, 31% of its 250 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 97% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A lower share of households without a car than 94% of compared French towns, at 4%
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
21% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 3.9% moved in within the last two years. Few places have as many empty homes: 8.3% here, more than in 66% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town.
A +15% change since 2012: faster than 82% 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 −1% for the median Lot town, the change came in two steps: +4% from 2012 to 2017, then +11% to 2023.
Older than 78% of compared French towns: half of Gindou is over 48.6
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Gindou 48.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 8.8% of residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. For Gindou, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 27%.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
One-person households: 27%, a lower share than 87% 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 Lot median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 2.3 people in the average household. Gindou has fewer couples with children than 56% of compared French towns, at 24%. One-person households: 35% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Median standard of living: €25,550 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 €25,550 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 54% of compared French towns.
Gindou ranks above 83% of compared French towns on households headed by a retired person: 40%
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
By its share of households headed by a manager or professional (5.9%), Gindou is below 77% of compared French towns. Lower than in four fifths of compared French towns: 9.3% of households are headed by a manual worker. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Gindou sits above 85% of compared French towns for foreign nationals (11%)
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 Lot has 9.5%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 77% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Just over one in ten residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents: 24%, a lower share than 60% 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
On the census count, 44% of residents 15 and over are married. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Gindou ranks below 86% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 13%
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
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, 28% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification here. The comparison figure for adults with no qualification is 19% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (356 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.
No nearby town is as young as Gindou
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 Gindou
What is the population of Gindou?
356 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% more than in 2012 (309).
How old are Gindou’s residents?
The median age is 48.6, older than 78% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Gindou?
79, with occasional dwellings: 31% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Gindou?
INSEE counts 41 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 12% of residents, and 40 foreign nationals (11%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Gindou?
€25,550 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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