54% of homes are second homes, more than in 98% of compared French towns
Households headed by a manual worker are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The share of households without a car stands at 5.2%. At the 2023 Census Dorres was home to 182 people in 96 households. In the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are one person living alone; locally, 42%.
Throughout this page, the Pyrénées-Orientales 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 Dorres
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 140 second homes and occasional dwellings in Dorres, 54% of its 260 homes: higher than in 98% of compared French towns. 55% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Dorres’ residents are under 54.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 69% of compared French towns: 8.6% of homes stand empty
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
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, a third of homes are flats here. Empty homes: 6.7% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Here, 14% of households rent social housing (HLM).
From 2012 to 2023, Dorres outgrew 76% of compared French towns: +12%
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 Pyrénées-Orientales town changed +10% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +4% and the next six +8%.
Older than 93% of compared French towns: half of Dorres is over 54.3
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Dorres 54.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Where 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Dorres has 30%. 6% of residents are 15 to 24, or about one in 17.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Dorres sits below 70% of compared French towns for couples with children (21%)
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 Pyrénées-Orientales median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 1.9 people in the average household. Set beside that, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Just over one in ten households are single parents; in the typical compared French town the figure is 10%.
At the median, €24,670 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.
Half of residents live in households above €24,670 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 64% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 42% in Dorres, 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
Where nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town, Dorres has 5.3%. Measured more widely, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A higher share of immigrants than 75% of compared French towns, at 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.
8.8% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Dorres ranks below 76% of compared French towns on married residents: 39%
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 figure for single residents is 27% in Dorres and 25% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
Only 11% of adults out of school have no qualification in Dorres
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 the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in Dorres, 39%. Typically, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
7th highest median age among 41 French towns of 182 to 2,582
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
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 Dorres
What is the population of Dorres?
182 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% more than in 2012 (162).
How old are Dorres’ residents?
The median age is 54.3, older than 93% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Dorres?
140, with occasional dwellings: 54% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Dorres?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 11% of residents, and 16 foreign nationals (8.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Dorres?
€24,670 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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