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Living in Céret

In Céret, advertised rents for new lettings average €10.54 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 15.1% (2022).

Céret, a city in France, had a population of 7,521 at the start of 2023. The unemployment rate was 15.1% at the end of 2022. The city had 9 schools in 2026. There were 146.3 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 24.5 µg/m³ in 2024. The foreign population count was 417 in 2021. Annual PM2.5 was 7.64 µg/m³ in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2433 sources

Population7,521people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,575EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent10.54EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 9% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate15.12%country median 11.0% — 38% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime4,641incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 2% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean7.64µg/m³country median 8.5 — 10% 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 63% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 79% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than 77% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Céret.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Céret?

Average net cold rent is 10.54 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): 10.54 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr23
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Céret recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43
Mobile plan, 10 GB€20
Net rent across major citiesCéret highlighted among comparable cities
Net rent across major cities with Céret highlighted

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Céret€10.54
Show the other 6 cities
Bordeaux€15.99
Lille€15.76
Strasbourg€15.57
Montpellier€15.49
Rennes€14.87
Nantes€14.50
MetricValuePeriodSource
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited42.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange Livebox Fibre19Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan18Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)718.1 %31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Dwellings5,405 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Main residence dwellings3,964 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)10.54 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr23Official

Is Céret 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 worker41%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 33–49%
Skilled employee51%strong on work, weak on safety · range 43–59%
Student48%strong on education, weak on work · range 41–55%
Family46%strong on family, weak on cost · range 39–53%
Retirement45%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 36–54%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 632 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10.54 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 Céret?

The unemployment rate is about 15.1 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 15.12 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Céret is 15.1%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability88.9 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability88.9 %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.5Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,575 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr24Official
Unemployment rate15.12 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official

What does a salary buy in Céret?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,575 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,265of €1,961 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.€1,961
Rent, 60 m²€10.54/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €632
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€1,265
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Céret Salary needed to live in Céret

Public employment service

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

Country-level information
Open the France service overview

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools9 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.21Official · commune
Primary schools4 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools11 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official

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; Céret's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents146.3 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence8Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents746.5 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Céret 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 residents746.5 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Céret?

Police recorded about 4,641 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 citiesCéret highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Céret 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
Céret4,641
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents4,641 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)3Official

Mobility and administration

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport5 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights17Official
Nearest airportPGF3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official
Distance to nearest airport30 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Céret. 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
Open official information
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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Céret.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Céret?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.6 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: 7.64 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

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 Céret is 7.6 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 mean24.48 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.1Official
NO₂ — latest reading28.5 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.12Official
PM10 — annual mean18.59 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.1Official
PM2.5 — annual mean7.64 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.1Official
Monthly extreme high temperatureJan 19.13 · Feb 19.86 · Mar 23.76 · Apr 26.81 · May 31.24 · Jun 34.87 · Jul 37.08 · Aug 36.57 · Sep 31.92 · Oct 28.74 · Nov 22.36 · Dec 18.34 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -10.27 · Feb -12.4 · Mar -12.91 · Apr -3.28 · May -1.49 · Jun 2.57 · Jul 6.2 · Aug 6.49 · Sep 2.76 · Oct -3.83 · Nov -6.88 · Dec -8.84 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average temperature by monthJan 2.87 · Feb 2.96 · Mar 6.05 · Apr 9.21 · May 13.05 · Jun 18.07 · Jul 20.64 · Aug 20.24 · Sep 15.96 · Oct 12.13 · Nov 6.46 · Dec 3.48 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Annual PM2.5 over time11 published observations, 2013–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 41.2% between 2013 and 2024, from 13.0 to 7.6.

Population and city profile

The city covered 37.9 km² in 2026. Population density was 198.7 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Céret?

The published population was 7,521 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area37.86 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Foreign residents417 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official
Population density198.7 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Population7,521 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9Official

International community in Céret

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
Total7,521100.0%
Français7,114.58794.6%
Etranger406.4135.4%

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

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)14Official

Alternatives for people set on Céret

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.

Canohès as a Céret alternative in the same region

19 km away, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,656 Canohès vs 4,641 Céret−43%
  • Unemployment: 10.4% Canohès vs 15.1% Céret−31%
  • Rent: €10.81/m² Canohès vs €10.54/m² Céretsame level
  • Residents: 6,616 Canohès vs 7,521 Céret−12%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,575 Canohès vs €2,575 Céretsame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 7.6 µg/m³ Canohès vs 7.6 µg/m³ Céretsame level
Full comparisonMore about Canohès

Sartrouville as a Céret alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 719 km, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 7,521 Céret+602%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,575 Céret+29%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 15.1% Céret−31%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €10.54/m² Céretno percentage
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 7.6 µg/m³ Céret+27%
  • Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 30.0 km Céret−40%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,641 Céretsame level
Full comparisonMore about Sartrouville

Cities near Céret

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

Le Boulou 7.6 km away
Rent
9.98 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Thuir 16.0 km away
Rent
9.89 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Pollestres 19.1 km away
Rent
10.64 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Canohès 19.5 km away
Rent
10.81 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Toulouges 21.3 km away
Rent
10.72 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Le Soler 21.8 km away
Rent
10.76 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Elne 21.9 km away
Rent
10.73 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Ille-sur-Têt 22.9 km away
Rent
9.47 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

Other cities in France to compare with Céret, nearest in population first.

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Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne7,524 residentsJaunay-Marigny7,528 residentsChâteaubourg7,533 residentsVillard-Bonnot7,509 residentsSaint-Yrieix-sur-Charente7,539 residentsSucé-sur-Erdre7,539 residents

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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 Céret?

The published population was 7,521 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Céret?

Average net cold rent is 10.54 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 738 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Céret?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.6 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 Céret?

Police recorded about 4,641 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 Céret?

The unemployment rate is about 15.1 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Céret?

The median gross salary is 2,575 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Céret a good place to live?

Céret 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 Céret?

Le Boulou, Thuir, Pollestres, Canohès, Toulouges are near Céret. 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 Céret?

The official citizenship distribution records 7,114.587 people (94.6%) 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, October 16). Céret, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 89c7993f7f298c0359f69c38323e9b53]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/ceret/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  title = {Céret, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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