Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.5% of households rent social housing (HLM)
By its share of one-person households (29%), Badaroux is below 82% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 930 residents in 410 households. Empty homes: 3.2% of the total. Lower than in 84% of compared French towns: 11% of homes are flats.
Throughout this page, the Lozère 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 Badaroux
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 89 second homes and occasional dwellings in Badaroux, 17% of its 520 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 84% 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.
2.8% of households have no car, fewer than in 99% 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
2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town, against 17% in Badaroux. In the typical compared French town, households without a car come to 11%. Turnover: 6% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 31% have lived in their home 30 years or more.
From 2012 to 2023, 75% of compared French towns grew faster than Badaroux: −1%
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
In two steps, +3% to 2017 and −4% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −4% in Lozère.
A median age of 48: Badaroux is older than 74% 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
■ Badaroux 48. The median compared French town: 44.
In Badaroux, one in ten residents are 15 to 24, beside 11% in the typical compared French town. By contrast, more residents aged 65 and over than in just over two thirds of compared French towns: 25%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Lozère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 7.4% in Badaroux, less than in 86% 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 Lozère median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.3 people. In the typical compared French town, single-parent households come to 10%. Higher than in 62% of compared French towns: 27% of households are couples with children.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €26,700 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €26,700 a year: higher than in 58% of compared French towns.
Only 10% of households are headed by a manual worker in Badaroux
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: 11% here and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. The share of households headed by a retired person stands at 30%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 65% of compared French towns: 4.8%
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 Lozère has 7.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in nearly two thirds of compared French towns. Across Badaroux, 4.9% of residents are foreign nationals. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Badaroux ranks below 93% of compared French towns on single residents: 20%
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
Nearly half of residents 15 and over are married (typical compared French town: 43%). In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Badaroux sits below 93% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (11%)
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
Here just over a third of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. The wider picture: nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 930 to 2,582 people: this is 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Older than Badaroux: 1 of the 2 towns nearby
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 Badaroux
What is the population of Badaroux?
930 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (941).
How old are Badaroux’s residents?
The median age is 48, older than 74% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Badaroux?
89, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Badaroux?
INSEE counts 45 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.8% of residents, and 45 foreign nationals (4.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Badaroux?
€26,700 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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