A median age of 54.2: Le Barroux is older than 93% of compared French towns
In Le Barroux, 44% of households are headed by a retired person, beside 32% in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 662, in 270 households. Here, 1.9% of households have no car.
Throughout this page, the Vaucluse 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 Le Barroux
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 210 second homes and occasional dwellings in Le Barroux, 42% of its 500 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 93% 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 Le Barroux’s residents are under 54.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
42% of homes are second homes, more than in 96% 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
7.1% of homes are flats (typical compared French town: 30%). In the typical compared French town, the share of second homes is 2.1%. Empty homes: 4.1% of the total.
A change of −1% since 2012 leaves Le Barroux behind 74% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Vaucluse town +7%.
6.5% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 98% 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
■ Le Barroux 54.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Le Barroux has 26%. Against that, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 3.8% in Le Barroux, less than in 99% 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 Vaucluse median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 2.1 people share a household. The wider picture: one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Few places have as many couples with children: 28% here, more than in 63% of compared French towns. 35% of households are one person living alone, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €25,290 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.
The median standard of living in Le Barroux is €25,290 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 57% of compared French towns.
Only 9.3% of households are headed by a manual worker in Le Barroux
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
Census figures put households headed by a manager or professional at 9.4% in Le Barroux. Households headed by a manual worker: 14% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 7.4% in Le Barroux, more than in 72% 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.
The share of immigrants tops nearly three fifths of compared French towns: 7.7%. For comparison, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
More single residents than 74% of compared French towns: 29%
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
Married residents: 45%, above 63% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
9.5% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 96% of compared French towns
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
30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, against 44% in Le Barroux. To put it in context, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
7th highest median age among 41 French towns of 662 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).
Nearby, 1 of 6 towns have older populations than Le Barroux
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 Le Barroux
What is the population of Le Barroux?
662 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (669).
How old are Le Barroux’s residents?
The median age is 54.2, older than 93% of compared French towns. 14% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Barroux?
210, with occasional dwellings: 42% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Barroux?
INSEE counts 51 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.7% of residents, and 49 foreign nationals (7.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Barroux?
€25,290 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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