Living in Brive-la-Gaillarde
In Brive-la-Gaillarde, rent averages €9.96 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 12.7% (2022).
In 2021, the foreign population was 3,616. The unemployment rate was 12.7% at the end of 2022.
Cheaper rent than 72% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 65% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 68% of French cities that publish it.
Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Brive-la-Gaillarde?
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 Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Average net cold rent is 9.96 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): 9.96 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr22
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited | 42.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange Livebox Fibre19Official · national market |
| Mobile plan, 10 GB | 19.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange 100GB mobile plan18Official · national market |
| G02 Vacancy Rate Pct | 3,161 % | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE6Official |
| Dwellings | 29,565 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE7Official |
| G05 Main Residential Dwellings | 25,088 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE7Official |
| Average net rent (nettokalt) | 9.96 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 | 31 Dec 2025 | static.data.gouv.fr22Official |
Is Brive-la-Gaillarde 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.
Worked out from these numbers
What does a 60 m² flat cost?
About 598 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 9.96 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.
Work and income
What is the unemployment rate in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The unemployment rate is about 12.7 % (2022).
- Unemployment rate: 12.73 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Brive-la-Gaillarde 12.7%
Unemployment rate (%)
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibre-to-the-building availability | 96.35 % | 3 Aug 2026 | Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official |
| Gigabit broadband availability | 96.35 % | 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) | 2,550 EUR/month | 31 Dec 2022 | www.insee.fr24Official |
| Unemployment rate | 12.73 %country median 11.0% | 31 Dec 2022 | INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official |
What does a salary buy in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.
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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. | €1,947 |
| Rent, 60 m²€9.96/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31 | − €598 |
| 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 | €1,286 |
Public employment service
No exact public employment office is currently linked to Brive-la-Gaillarde. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.
France Travail — Public employment service
Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Brive-la-Gaillarde. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.
Family and education
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary School Count | 28 count | 3 Aug 2026 | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)14Official |
| School Count | 56 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; Brive-la-Gaillarde's school authority applies it locally.
Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.
Healthcare
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital beds per 100,000 residents | 1,261 beds per 100,000 | 31 Dec 2011 | DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official |
Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Brive-la-Gaillarde 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.
Open the official coverage guideSafety
How safe is Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Police recorded about 5,537 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
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents | 5,537 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
Language courses and integration
No exact city-level course record is currently published for Brive-la-Gaillarde. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.
Contrat d’intégration républicaine (CIR) — Integration course
État français and OFII
For eligible non-EU foreign residents.
DIAN language-training offer finder — Other
Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN
For people seeking French-language training.
Climate and air quality
Average high temperatures were 9.6°C in January and 27.9°C in July. Monthly precipitation was 73.9 mm in January and 63.1 mm in July. Annual NO₂ was 9.13 µg/m³ in 2024.
Night-time low to daytime high
mm
hours
Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³
City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.
Brive-la-Gaillarde 12.0
annual PM10, µg/m³ · cities per band
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO₂ — annual mean | 9.13 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 |
| NO₂ — latest reading | 5.2 µg/m³ | 15 Jul 2026 | Latest 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.12Official |
| PM10 — annual mean | 11.96 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 |
| Average daytime high by month | Jan 9.6 · Feb 11.4 · Mar 15.4 · Apr 18.1 · May 22 · Jun 25.7 · Jul 27.9 · Aug 27.9 · Sep 24 · Oct 19.4 · Nov 13.4 · Dec 10.1 °C | 31 Dec 2020 | Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly maximum air temperature, BRIVE, 1991-202013Official |
| Average night-time low by month | Jan 1.3 · Feb 0.8 · Mar 3.1 · Apr 5.6 · May 9.2 · Jun 12.6 · Jul 14.3 · Aug 14 · Sep 10.6 · Oct 8.3 · Nov 4.3 · Dec 1.7 °C | 31 Dec 2020 | Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly minimum air temperature, BRIVE, 1991-202013Official |
| Average temperature by month | Jan 5.4 · Feb 6.1 · Mar 9.2 · Apr 11.9 · May 15.6 · Jun 19.2 · Jul 21.1 · Aug 21 · Sep 17.3 · Oct 13.9 · Nov 8.8 · Dec 5.9 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station BRIVE23Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average precipitation by month | Jan 73.9 · Feb 59.5 · Mar 66.4 · Apr 87.5 · May 87.1 · Jun 78.4 · Jul 63.1 · Aug 67.4 · Sep 73.4 · Oct 79.5 · Nov 85.1 · Dec 82.6 mm | 31 Dec 2020 | Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly precipitation, BRIVE, 1991-202013Official |
| Average sunshine by month | Jan 84.82 · Feb 114 · Mar 167.9 · Apr 185.1 · May 216.6 · Jun 243 · Jul 263.9 · Aug 249.1 · Sep 203.2 · Oct 141.4 · Nov 89.03 · Dec 78.37 hours | 31 Dec 2020 | Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly sunshine duration, BRIVE, 1991-202013Official |
Population and city profile
The city covered 48.6 km² in 2026. Population density was 969.2 people per km² in 2023.
How many people live in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The published population was 47,095 people in 2023. Source: INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Brive-la-Gaillarde (commune 19031)8
By nationality
National passport92.3%
Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| City area | 48.59 km² | 31 Dec 2026 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official |
| Foreign residents | 3,616 people | 2021 | Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official |
| Population density | 969.2 people/km² | 31 Dec 2023 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official |
| Population | 47,095 people | 1 Jan 2023 | INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Brive-la-Gaillarde (commune 19031)8Official |
International community in Brive-la-Gaillarde
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 | 47,095 | 100.0% |
| Français | 43,396.82 | 92.1% |
| Etranger | 3,698.18 | 7.9% |
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)15Official |
Alternatives for people set on Brive-la-Gaillarde
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.
Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche as a Brive-la-Gaillarde alternative in the same region
7 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,662 Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche vs 5,537 Brive-la-Gaillarde−52%
- Unemployment: 8.3% Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche vs 12.7% Brive-la-Gaillarde−35%
- Residents: 5,091 Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche vs 47,095 Brive-la-Gaillarde−89%
- Rent: €10.06/m² Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche vs €9.96/m² Brive-la-Gaillardesame level
- Median gross pay, region: €2,550 Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche vs €2,550 Brive-la-Gaillardesame level
Sartrouville as a Brive-la-Gaillarde alternative in the same country
A move, not a commute, at 424 km, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.
- Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,550 Brive-la-Gaillarde+30%
- Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €9.96/m² Brive-la-Gaillardeno percentage
- Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 12.7% Brive-la-Gaillarde−18%
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 5,537 Brive-la-Gaillarde−17%
- Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 14.0 km Brive-la-Gaillarde+29%
- Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 47,095 Brive-la-Gaillarde+12%
Cities near Brive-la-Gaillarde
Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.
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- 10.06 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
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- 8.65 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
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- 7.78 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
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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 Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The published population was 47,095 people in 2023. Source: INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Brive-la-Gaillarde (commune 19031).
How much does it cost to rent in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Average net cold rent is 9.96 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 697 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.
How safe is Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Police recorded about 5,537 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The unemployment rate is about 12.7 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.
What is the typical salary around Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The median gross salary is 2,550 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.
How many foreign residents live in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
3,616 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1.
Is Brive-la-Gaillarde a good place to live?
Brive-la-Gaillarde 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche, Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Tulle are near Brive-la-Gaillarde. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.
How many people are in the Total citizenship group in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The official citizenship distribution records 47,095 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, September 29). Brive-la-Gaillarde, France: population, rent, salary, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version fb7c7a0dcd914335f8cc49cd0572dcc1]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/brive-la-gaillarde/ Retrieved 2026-09-29. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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