Only 2.8% of homes are flats in Serviès
Compared with 10% in the typical compared French town, 6.1% of households are single parents here. Lower than in 92% of compared French towns: 4.4% of households have no car. The 2023 Census counted 584 residents in 240 households. Here, 8.1% of residents are 15 to 24.
Throughout this page, the Tarn 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 Serviès
One home in 10 is a second home
The census counted 30 second homes and occasional dwellings in Serviès, 10% of its 300 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 100% 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 Serviès’ residents are under 51.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 16% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Serviès had 612 residents at the 2012 census and 584 in 2023, down 5%: slower growth than in 87% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More second homes than 88% of compared French towns: 10%
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
Empty homes make up 9.5%, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Still, households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. 6% of households arrived within the last two years, while 24% have stayed 30 years or more.
Serviès changed by −5% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 87% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +4%, then −8% to 2023. Over those years, the median Tarn town changed +7% and the median compared French town +5%.
Older than 87% of compared French towns: half of Serviès is over 51.1
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Serviès 51.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 30% of residents are 65 or over in Serviès.
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 80 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Serviès, 19% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 77% 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 Tarn median and the France median
Living alone · share
Where 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Serviès has 32%. In the typical compared French town, couples with children come to 25%. The average household has 2.2 people.
€24,490 a year: the median standard of living
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 Serviès’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €24,490 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 66% of compared French towns.
19% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 79% 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
6.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional; in the typical compared French town the figure is 9.4%. The usual figure: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a retired person make up about one in three here (37%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 3.8% in Serviès, less than in 75% of compared French towns
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.
Foreign nationals: 1.9% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 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.
Single residents: 21%, a lower share than 86% 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
Here 47% of residents 15 and over are married, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 43%. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
32% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, a share 56% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
18% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 56% of compared French towns. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
The 11th oldest of 41 French towns of 584 to 2,582 people
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.
Every neighbor is younger than Serviès
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 Serviès
What is the population of Serviès?
584 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% fewer than in 2012 (612).
How old are Serviès’ residents?
The median age is 51.1, older than 87% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Serviès?
30, with occasional dwellings: 10% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Serviès?
INSEE counts 22 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.8% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (1.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Serviès?
€24,490 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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