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Living in Annecy

In Annecy, rent averages €20.45 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 8.8% (2022).

The city covered 69.9 km² in 2024. Population density was 1,974.0 people per km² in 2023. A monthly estimate placed internet service at €30 in December 2022. The unemployment rate was 8.84% at the end of 2022. Annual NO₂ was 16.6 µg/m³ in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2426 sources

Population132,117people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Annecy (commune 74010)
Median gross salary (region)2,749EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent20.45EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 76% aboveOfficial source · "Carte des loyers" - Indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 2025
Unemployment rate8.84%country median 11.0% — 19% belowOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime6,894incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 45% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean8.23µg/m³country median 8.5 — 3% belowOfficial source · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.

Pricier rent than 95% of French cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 71% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 86% of French cities that publish it.

Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Annecy?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Annecy?

Average net cold rent is about 20.45 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

  • Average net rent (nettokalt): 20.45 EUR/m²/month · "Carte des loyers" - Indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 20251
What recurs every month6 published recurring costs, € per month
Annecy recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Private kindergarten€705
Utilities, 85 m² flat€160
Fitness club€41
Transport pass€30
Internet, 60 Mbps€30
Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Supplemental estimate lane; these items are not official statistics.

Net rent across major citiesAnnecy highlighted among comparable cities
Net rent across major cities with Annecy highlighted

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Annecy€20.45
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Nantes€14.50
Toulouse€13.98
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Marseille€16.30
Bordeaux€15.99
Lille€15.76
Strasbourg€15.57
Montpellier€15.49
Rennes€14.87
MetricValuePeriodSource
Fitness club membership, monthly40.64 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Global Cost of Living — Kaggle snapshot v226Supplemental estimate · Supplemental context
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited29.85 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Global Cost of Living — Kaggle snapshot v226Supplemental estimate · Supplemental context
Private kindergarten, monthly704.9 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Global Cost of Living — Kaggle snapshot v226Supplemental estimate · Supplemental context
Meal at an inexpensive restaurant14.93 EUR31 Dec 2022Global Cost of Living — Kaggle snapshot v226Supplemental estimate · Supplemental context
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan21Official · national market
Monthly transport pass29.85 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Global Cost of Living — Kaggle snapshot v226Supplemental estimate · Supplemental context
Basic utilities, 85 m² home160 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Global Cost of Living — Kaggle snapshot v226Supplemental estimate · Supplemental context
G02 Vacancy Rate Pct5,629 %31 Dec 2023INSEE11Official
Dwellings76,928 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE12Official
G05 Main Residential Dwellings65,618 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE12Official
Housing Vacancy Rate Percent7.32 %31 Dec 2023Logement en 2023 - Commune - France hors Mayotte17Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)20.45 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6030 Sept 2025"Carte des loyers" - Indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 20251Official

Is Annecy a good place to live?

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Remote worker44%strong on work, weak on safety · range 36–52%
Skilled employee58%strong on work, weak on safety · range 50–66%
Student38%strong on education, weak on housing · range 31–45%
Family46%strong on family, weak on cost · range 39–53%
Retirement39%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 30–48%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 1,227 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 20.45 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: 2025-Q3

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Annecy?

The unemployment rate is about 8.8 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 8.84 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune14
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Annecy is 8.8%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability97.03 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)4Official
Gigabit broadband availability97.36 %31 Mar 2026Independent ARCEP municipal count of premises eligible for the >=1 Gbit/s fixed advertised-speed class, divided by the ARCEP type=all municipal premises denominator. This is availability/eligibility, not adoption, measured speed, FTTH-only coverage or mobile coverage.10Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,749 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr25Official
Unemployment rate8.84 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune14Official
Unemployment rate over time10 published observations, 2013–2022

Unemployment rate fell 16.0% between 2013 and 2022, from 10.5% to 8.8%.

What does a salary buy in Annecy?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

regional median gross pay: €2,749 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€615of €2,082 take-home
  • Rent
  • Utilities
  • Transport
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Left over
Line-by-line breakdown and sources
Each month€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions.€2,082
Rent, 60 m²€20.45/m² · official · "Carte des loyers" - Indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 2025 · 2025-09-30− €1,227
Public transport pass€30 · market price · Global Cost of Living · 2022-12-31− €30
Utilities, 85 m²€160 · market price · Global Cost of Living · 2022-12-31− €160
Internet€30 · market price · Global Cost of Living · 2022-12-31− €30
Mobile plan€20 · official · Orange 100GB mobile plan · 2026-09-30− €20
Left over€615
Take-home pay for other salaries and households

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Annecy. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Annecy. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary School Count55 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)18Official
School Count98 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)18Official

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 3 to 16. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: UPE2A (unités pédagogiques pour élèves allophones nouvellement arrivés) + UPE2A-NSA variant. How to enrol a child (education.gouv.fr).

A country-wide rule for France; Annecy's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
GP practices30 count16 Sept 2026Annuaire Santé — RPPS authorized-practice extract3Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents351.4 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20115Official
Hospitals6 count4 May 2026FINESS Extraction du fichier des établissements7Official
Pharmacies41 count4 May 2026FINESS Extraction du fichier des établissements7Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents410.2 per 100,00016 Sept 2026Annuaire Santé — RPPS authorized-practice extract3Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Annecy when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Hospital beds per 100,000 residents351.4 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Annecy?

Police recorded about 6,894 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)8

Recorded crime across major citiesAnnecy highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Annecy highlighted

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Lille13,488
Lyon13,026
Bordeaux12,429
Marseille11,857
Paris10,987
Montpellier9,636
Toulouse8,875
Rennes8,241
Strasbourg7,791
Nantes7,704
Nice7,577
Annecy6,894
MetricValuePeriodSource
Burglaries per 100,000 residents790.4 incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025FR-SSMSI-communal-20258Official
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents6,894 incidents per 100,000country median 4,74031 Dec 2025Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)8Official
Violent crime per 100,000 residents916.6 incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025FR-SSMSI-communal-20258Official

Mobility and administration

MetricValuePeriodSource
Nearest airportNCY3 Aug 2026OurAirports22Official
Distance to nearest airport3 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports22Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Annecy. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Contrat d’intégration républicaine (CIR) — Integration course

État français and OFII

For eligible non-EU foreign residents.

FrenchIn Person

DIAN language-training offer finder — Other

Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN

For people seeking French-language training.

FrenchIn Person, Online
National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Annecy.

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 8.23 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual PM10 was 18.1 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Annecy?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.2 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³.

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

  • PM2.5 — annual mean: 8.23 µg/m³ · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.2
Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C
Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm
Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in FranceAnnual PM2.5 in Annecy is 8.2 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

MetricValuePeriodSource
NO₂ — annual mean16.58 µg/m³country median 14.820242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.2Official
NO₂ — latest reading23.65 µg/m³15 Jul 2026Latest valid NO2 hourly station observation on the official LCSQA E2 current-day extract, mapped to the exact INSEE centre through an exact normalized station-name crosswalk to EEA station metadata.16Official
PM10 — annual mean18.14 µg/m³country median 14.220242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.2Official
PM2.5 — annual mean8.23 µg/m³country median 8.520242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.2Official
Average daytime high by monthJan 5.6 · Feb 7.6 · Mar 12.3 · Apr 16.3 · May 20.3 · Jun 24.2 · Jul 26.5 · Aug 26.1 · Sep 21.3 · Oct 16.3 · Nov 10 · Dec 6.3 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station MEYTHET24Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan -1.4 · Feb -1 · Mar 1.7 · Apr 5 · May 9.2 · Jun 12.7 · Jul 14.4 · Aug 14.2 · Sep 10.7 · Oct 7.2 · Nov 2.5 · Dec -0.6 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station MEYTHET24Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan 2.1 · Feb 3.3 · Mar 7 · Apr 10.6 · May 14.7 · Jun 18.5 · Jul 20.5 · Aug 20.1 · Sep 16 · Oct 11.8 · Nov 6.2 · Dec 2.8 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station MEYTHET24Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 94.2 · Feb 78.9 · Mar 89.9 · Apr 96.1 · May 109.2 · Jun 95.1 · Jul 101.1 · Aug 106.4 · Sep 108.3 · Oct 109.8 · Nov 109.7 · Dec 112.5 mm1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station MEYTHET24Official · nearest-station reading
Annual PM2.5 over time11 published observations, 2013–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 56.7% between 2013 and 2024, from 19.0 to 8.2.

Similar climate. In France: Reims ±1.0 °C. Elsewhere: Cottbus (Germany) ±1.1 °C, Werl (Germany) ±1.2 °C, Berlin (Germany) ±1.4 °C, Hoyerswerda (Germany) ±1.4 °C, Traunreut (Germany) ±1.7 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Annecy?

The published population was 132,117 people in 2023. Source: INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Annecy (commune 74010)13

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area69.9 km²1 Jan 2024France city identity collection9Official
Foreign-resident share10.2 %31 Dec 2022Eurostat6Official
Foreign residents12,741 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT120Official
Population density1,974 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte23Official
Population132,117 people1 Jan 2023INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Annecy (commune 74010)13Official
Population over time14 published observations, 2010–2023

Population rose 11.2% between 2010 and 2023, from 118,821 to 132,117.

Foreign residents over time14 published observations, 2009–2022

Foreign residents rose 47.7% between 2009 and 2022, from 9,085 to 13,418.

International community in Annecy

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Population resident in France excluding Mayotte; INSEE RP2023 NAT; total age and sex · 2023 Census

Published groupPeopleShare
Total132,117100.0%
Français118,056.64989.4%
Etranger14,060.35110.6%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source15

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)19Official

Alternatives for people set on Annecy

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Tours as a Annecy alternative in the same country

Better on 4 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 3.

  • Hospital beds, per 100k: 1,143.2 Tours vs 351.4 Annecy+225%
  • Unemployment: 15.2% Tours vs 8.8% Annecy+72%
  • Rent: €13.51/m² Tours vs €20.45/m² Annecy−34%
  • Empty flats: 11.2% Tours vs 7.3% Annecy+53%
  • Nearest airport: 5.0 km Tours vs 3.0 km Annecy+67%
  • Annual PM2.5: 7.1 µg/m³ Tours vs 8.2 µg/m³ Annecy−14%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,597 Tours vs €2,749 Annecy−6%

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Annecy?

The published population was 132,117 people in 2023. Source: INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Annecy (commune 74010).

How much does it cost to rent in Annecy?

Average net cold rent is about 20.45 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 1,431 EUR a month before utilities. Source: "Carte des loyers" - Indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 2025.

Is the air quality good in Annecy?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.2 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation..

How safe is Annecy?

Police recorded about 6,894 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026).

What is the unemployment rate in Annecy?

The unemployment rate is about 8.8 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Annecy?

The median gross salary is 2,749 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Annecy a good place to live?

Annecy may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

How many people are in the Total citizenship group in Annecy?

The official citizenship distribution records 132,117 people (100.0%) in the source-defined population for 2023 Census. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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