Living in Auchel

In Auchel, advertised rents for new lettings average €8.99 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 23.2% (2022).

The city had 15 schools in 2026. There were 79.6 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual PM10 was 13.9 µg/m³ in 2024. The unemployment rate was 23.2% at the end of 2022. Annual NO₂ was 8.18 µg/m³ in 2024. For Auchel, the foreign population count was 75 at the start of 2023. At the start of 2023, Auchel had a population of 10,051.

Last checked 2026-09-2433 sources

Population10,051people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,579EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent8.99EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 22% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate23.2%country median 11.0% — 111% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime4,920incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 4% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean12µg/m³country median 8.5 — 42% aboveOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 84% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 98% of French cities that publish it and dirtier air than any other French city that publishes it.

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

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

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in FranceNational rates and thresholds that apply in Auchel.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Auchel?

Average net cold rent is 8.99 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): 8.99 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr²³

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesAuchel highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Auchel€8.99

Show the other 6 cities

Bordeaux€15.99

Lille€15.76

Strasbourg€15.57

Montpellier€15.49

Rennes€14.87

Nantes€14.50

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	42.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange Livebox Fibre¹⁸Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁷Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	676.5 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Dwellings	4,953 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Main residence dwellings	4,253 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	8.99 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr²³Official

Is Auchel a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker56%strong on work, weak on safety · range 48–64%

Skilled employee62%strong on work, weak on safety · range 54–70%

Student62%strong on education, weak on work · range 55–69%

Family53%strong on family, weak on cost · range 46–60%

Retirement51%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 42–60%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 539 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 8.99 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 Auchel?

The unemployment rate is about 23.2 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹¹

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Auchel is 23.2%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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0–55–1010–1515–2020–2525–3030–35

Auchel 23.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	99.89 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)²Official
Gigabit broadband availability	99.89 %	31 Mar 2026	Independent 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.⁵Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,579 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²⁴Official
Unemployment rate	23.2 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹¹Official

What does a salary buy in Auchel?

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

Left over each month€1,365of €1,967 take-home

Rent
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.	€1,967
Rent, 60 m²€8.99/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €539
Internet€43 · official · Orange Livebox Fibre · 2026-09-30	− €43
Mobile plan€20 · official · Orange 100GB mobile plan · 2026-09-30	− €20
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€1,365

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Auchel Salary needed to live in Auchel

Public employment service

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

Country-level information

France Travail — Public employment service

France Travail

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	15 schools	27 May 2026	RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.²¹Official · commune
Primary schools	10 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁴Official
Schools	16 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁴Official

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; Auchel's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents	79.59 per 100,000 people	31 Dec 2024	INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence⁹Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Auchel 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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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Auchel?

Police recorded about 4,920 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)³

Recorded crime across major citiesAuchel highlighted among comparable cities

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

Auchel4,920

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,920 incidents per 100,000country median 4,740	31 Dec 2025	Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)³Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Nearest airport	HZB	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official
Distance to nearest airport	17 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Auchel. 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

Open official information

DIAN language-training offer finder — Other

Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN

For people seeking French-language training.

FrenchIn Person, Online

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Auchel.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Auchel?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 12 µg/m³ (2021) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency⁴

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

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.512WHO 5 · EU 25

PM1013.9WHO 15 · EU 40

NO₂8.2WHO 10 · EU 40

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 Auchel is 12.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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3–44–55–66–77–88–99–1010–1111–1212–1313–14

Auchel 12.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
NO₂ — annual mean	8.18 µg/m³country median 14.8	2024	2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹Official
PM10 — annual mean	13.94 µg/m³country median 14.2	2024	2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹Official
PM2.5 — annual mean	12 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2021	European Environment Agency⁴Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 13.52 · Feb 16.71 · Mar 20.82 · Apr 25.07 · May 28.25 · Jun 30.54 · Jul 35.15 · Aug 33.06 · Sep 29.07 · Oct 26.37 · Nov 18.59 · Dec 14.04 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁶Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -10.39 · Feb -12.01 · Mar -7.7 · Apr -4.73 · May 0.61 · Jun 3.66 · Jul 6.95 · Aug 8.02 · Sep 3.57 · Oct -3.26 · Nov -4.89 · Dec -8.16 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁶Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 3.22 · Feb 3.59 · Mar 6.05 · Apr 9.34 · May 12.66 · Jun 15.73 · Jul 17.61 · Aug 17.41 · Sep 14.67 · Oct 11.23 · Nov 7.04 · Dec 3.84 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁶Official

Annual PM2.5 over time9 published observations, 2013–2021

9.4

12.5

15.5

18.6

12.020132015201720192021

Annual PM2.5 fell 33.3% between 2013 and 2021, from 18.0 to 12.0.

Population and city profile

The city covered 6 km² in 2026. Population density was 1,675.2 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Auchel?

The published population was 10,051 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune¹⁰

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport99.3%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	6 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²²Official
Foreign residents	74.65 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE RP2023 — population par âge, sexe et nationalité, commune¹²Official
Population density	1,675 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²²Official
Population	10,051 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune¹⁰Official

International community in Auchel

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 group	People	Share
Total	10,051	100.0%
Français	9,976.35	99.3%
Etranger	74.65	0.7%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹³

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Universities	0 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)¹⁵Official

Alternatives for people set on Auchel

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.

Annezin as an Auchel alternative in the same region

11 km away, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

Unemployment: 12.2% Annezin vs 23.2% Auchel−47%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,785 Annezin vs 4,920 Auchel−23%
Rent: €9.59/m² Annezin vs €8.99/m² Auchel+7%
Residents: 5,825 Annezin vs 10,051 Auchel−42%
Nearest airport: 10.0 km Annezin vs 17.0 km Auchel−41%
Median gross pay, region: €2,579 Annezin vs €2,579 Auchelsame level

Full comparison More about Annezin

Sartrouville as an Auchel alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 175 km, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 10,051 Auchel+425%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 23.2% Auchel−55%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,579 Auchel+29%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €8.99/m² Auchelno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,920 Auchel−7%
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 17.0 km Auchel+6%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Auchel

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Marles-les-Mines 2.1 km away

Rent: 9.65 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Calonne-Ricouart 2.5 km away

Rent: 9.01 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Divion 4.5 km away

Rent: 9.33 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Lillers 6.2 km away

Rent: 8.91 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Houdain 7.7 km away

Rent: 8.64 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Haillicourt 8.6 km away

Rent: 5.44 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-01-01

Annezin 10.6 km away

Rent: 9.59 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Barlin 11.8 km away

Rent: 5.87 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-01-01

Alternative cities in France

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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 Auchel?

The published population was 10,051 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Auchel?

Average net cold rent is 8.99 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 629 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Auchel?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 12 µg/m³ (2021) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Auchel?

What is the unemployment rate in Auchel?

The unemployment rate is about 23.2 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Auchel?

The median gross salary is 2,579 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Auchel a good place to live?

Auchel 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.

Which cities are near Auchel?

Marles-les-Mines, Calonne-Ricouart, Divion, Lillers, Houdain are near Auchel. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people are in the Français citizenship group in Auchel?

The official citizenship distribution records 9,976.35 people (99.3%) 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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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Auchel, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {bfc84e6cb38b784449b9e6918739d55a},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/auchel/},
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}

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