Living in Brioude

In Brioude, advertised rents for new lettings average €6.93 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 16.6% (2022).

Annual PM2.5 was 3.63 µg/m³ in 2024. The unemployment rate was 16.6% at the end of 2022. Annual PM10 was 6.71 µg/m³ in 2024. In 2021, the foreign population was 281. The population of Brioude, in France, was 6,527 at the start of 2023. The city had 9 schools in 2026. There were 199.2 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2423 sources

Population6,527people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,749EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent6.93EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 40% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate16.63%country median 11.0% — 52% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime6,750incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 42% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean3.63µg/m³country median 8.5 — 57% belowOfficial source · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.

Cheaper rent than 96% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 86% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 84% of French cities that publish it.

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

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

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Brioude?

Average net cold rent is 6.93 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): 6.93 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr²²

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesBrioude highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Brioude€6.93

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)	773.3 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Dwellings	4,356 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Main residence dwellings	3,350 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	6.93 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr²²Official

Is Brioude a good place to live?

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Remote worker58%strong on work, weak on safety · range 50–66%

Skilled employee59%strong on work, weak on safety · range 51–67%

Student55%strong on education, weak on work · range 48–62%

Family46%strong on family, weak on cost · range 39–53%

Retirement62%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 53–71%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 416 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 6.93 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 Brioude?

The unemployment rate is about 16.6 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 16.63 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹⁰

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Brioude is 16.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Brioude 16.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	97.28 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)²Official
Gigabit broadband availability	97.28 %	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)	2,749 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²³Official
Unemployment rate	16.63 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹⁰Official

What does a salary buy in Brioude?

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

Left over each month€1,603of €2,082 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.	€2,082
Rent, 60 m²€6.93/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €416
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	€1,603

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Brioude. 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 Brioude. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	9 schools	27 May 2026	RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.²⁰Official · commune
Primary schools	3 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹²Official
Schools	11 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹²Official

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; Brioude'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	199.2 per 100,000 people	31 Dec 2024	INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence⁸Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	1,208 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011⁴Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Brioude 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 residents1,208 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Brioude?

Police recorded about 6,750 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 citiesBrioude 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

Brioude6,750

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	6,750 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
Destinations from nearest airport	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁶Official
Nearest airport	LPY	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official
Distance to nearest airport	38 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Brioude?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 3.6 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline.

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

PM2.5 — annual mean: 3.63 µg/m³ · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹

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

PM2.53.6WHO 5 · EU 25

PM106.7WHO 15 · 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 Brioude is 3.6 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

Brioude 3.6

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM10 — annual mean	6.71 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	3.63 µg/m³country median 8.5	2024	2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.98 · Feb 18.55 · Mar 20.75 · Apr 23.14 · May 27.26 · Jun 36.85 · Jul 36.62 · Aug 37.07 · Sep 30.98 · Oct 25.7 · Nov 20.67 · Dec 14.74 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -13.8 · Feb -17.7 · Mar -16.5 · Apr -6.62 · May -1.29 · Jun 1.45 · Jul 5.43 · Aug 5.1 · Sep -2.1 · Oct -7.14 · Nov -8.83 · Dec -13.89 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.4 · Feb 0.62 · Mar 4.02 · Apr 7.57 · May 11.27 · Jun 15.78 · Jul 18.03 · Aug 17.72 · Sep 13.6 · Oct 9.74 · Nov 4.55 · Dec 1.16 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official

Annual PM2.5 over time5 published observations, 2020–2024

3.5

4.0

4.6

5.1

3.6202020222024

Annual PM2.5 fell 9.3% between 2020 and 2024, from 4.0 to 3.6.

Population and city profile

The city covered 13.5 km² in 2026. Population density was 482.8 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Brioude?

The published population was 6,527 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁹

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport95.7%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	13.52 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²¹Official
Foreign residents	281 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁵Official
Population density	482.8 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²¹Official
Population	6,527 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁹Official

International community in Brioude

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	6,527	100.0%
Français	6,245.734	95.7%
Etranger	281.266	4.3%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹¹

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)¹³Official

Alternatives for people set on Brioude

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.

Sartrouville as a Brioude alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 416 km, better on 4 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 6,527 Brioude+708%
Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 3.6 µg/m³ Brioude+168%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 16.6% Brioude−37%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 6,750 Brioude−32%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €6.93/m² Brioudeno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,749 Brioude+21%
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 38.0 km Brioude−53%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

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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 Brioude?

The published population was 6,527 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Brioude?

Average net cold rent is 6.93 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 485 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Brioude?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 3.6 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. 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 Brioude?

What is the unemployment rate in Brioude?

The unemployment rate is about 16.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Brioude?

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

Is Brioude a good place to live?

Brioude 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 Français citizenship group in Brioude?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,245.734 people (95.7%) 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 = {Brioude, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {7f0c6125686efbd17e598db3b5bc7cd0},
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  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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