Living in Coutras

In Coutras, advertised rents for new lettings average €10.76 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 15.3% (2022).

The unemployment rate was 15.3% at the end of 2022. Coutras had a population of 8,678 at the start of 2023. In 2021, the foreign population was 269. Gigabit broadband availability was 93.9% in March 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2426 sources

Population8,678people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,550EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent10.76EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 7% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate15.28%country median 11.0% — 39% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime4,531incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 4% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean9µg/m³country median 8.5 — 6% aboveOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 61% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 80% of French cities that publish it and dirtier air than 67% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Coutras.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Coutras?

Average net cold rent is 10.76 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): 10.76 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr¹⁹

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesCoutras highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Coutras€10.76

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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 Fibre¹⁶Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁵Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	309.9 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Dwellings	4,552 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Main residence dwellings	4,142 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	10.76 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr¹⁹Official

Is Coutras a good place to live?

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Remote worker45%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 37–53%

Skilled employee52%strong on work, weak on safety · range 44–60%

Student50%strong on education, weak on work · range 43–57%

Family46%strong on family, weak on cost · range 38–54%

Retirement48%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 38–58%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 646 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10.76 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 Coutras?

The unemployment rate is about 15.3 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 15.28 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Coutras is 15.3%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Coutras 15.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	93.89 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)¹Official
Gigabit broadband availability	93.89 %	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.⁴Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,550 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²⁰Official
Unemployment rate	15.28 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸Official

What does a salary buy in Coutras?

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

Left over each month€1,238of €1,947 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.	€1,947
Rent, 60 m²€10.76/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €646
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	€1,238

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Public employment service

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

Country-level information

France Travail — Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	5 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁰Official
Schools	8 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁰Official

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; Coutras's school authority applies it locally.

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

Safety

How safe is Coutras?

Police recorded about 4,531 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)²

Recorded crime across major citiesCoutras 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

Coutras4,531

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,531 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)²Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	49 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁴Official
Nearest airport	BOD	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁷Official
Distance to nearest airport	52 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁷Official

Language courses and integration

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

Open the full France section

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Coutras?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 9 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency³

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

PM2.59WHO 5 · EU 25

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 Coutras is 9.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Coutras 9.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	9 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency³Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 16.74 · Feb 22.01 · Mar 23.97 · Apr 28.04 · May 31.74 · Jun 39.77 · Jul 41.99 · Aug 42.29 · Sep 37.1 · Oct 30.98 · Nov 24.15 · Dec 18.19 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹²Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -9.98 · Feb -11.58 · Mar -7.99 · Apr -1.93 · May 0.05 · Jun 5.16 · Jul 9.05 · Aug 9.26 · Sep 2.89 · Oct -3.53 · Nov -5.08 · Dec -9.94 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹²Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 5.02 · Feb 5.39 · Mar 8.69 · Apr 11.84 · May 15.39 · Jun 19.57 · Jul 21.88 · Aug 21.85 · Sep 18.5 · Oct 14.18 · Nov 8.8 · Dec 5.42 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹²Official

Annual PM2.5 over time12 published observations, 2013–2024

6.5

8.8

11.2

13.5

9.020132015201720212024

Annual PM2.5 fell 30.8% between 2013 and 2024, from 13.0 to 9.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Coutras?

The published population was 8,678 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport96.9%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	33.69 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁸Official
Foreign residents	269 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹³Official
Population density	257.6 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁸Official
Population	8,678 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷Official

International community in Coutras

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	8,678	100.0%
Français	8,411.314	96.9%
Etranger	266.686	3.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

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)¹¹Official

Alternatives for people set on Coutras

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-Denis-de-Pile as a Coutras alternative in the same region

8 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,778 Saint-Denis-de-Pile vs 4,531 Coutras−39%
Unemployment: 10.5% Saint-Denis-de-Pile vs 15.3% Coutras−31%
Residents: 5,955 Saint-Denis-de-Pile vs 8,678 Coutras−31%
Rent: €10.44/m² Saint-Denis-de-Pile vs €10.76/m² Coutrassame level
Median gross pay, region: €2,550 Saint-Denis-de-Pile vs €2,550 Coutrassame level

Full comparison More about Saint-Denis-de-Pile

Sartrouville as a Coutras alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 468 km, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 8,678 Coutras+508%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,550 Coutras+30%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 15.3% Coutras−31%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €10.76/m² Coutrasno percentage
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 52.0 km Coutras−65%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,531 Coutrassame level

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Coutras

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

Saint-Denis-de-Pile 8.2 km away

Rent: 10.44 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Libourne 16.6 km away

Rent: 11.65 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Izon 22.7 km away

Rent: 10.8 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31

Montpon-Ménestérol 22.9 km away

Rent: 8.54 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities

Margny-lès-Compiègne8,677 residents Saint-Chamas8,676 residents Petit-Couronne8,683 residents Plabennec8,686 residents Essey-lès-Nancy8,670 residents Artigues-près-Bordeaux8,687 residents

How does Coutras compare?

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Coutras 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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Common questions

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

How many people live in Coutras?

The published population was 8,678 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Coutras?

Average net cold rent is 10.76 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 753 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Coutras?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 9 µg/m³ (2024) — 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 Coutras?

What is the unemployment rate in Coutras?

The unemployment rate is about 15.3 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Coutras?

The median gross salary is 2,550 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Coutras a good place to live?

Coutras 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 Coutras?

Saint-Denis-de-Pile, Libourne, Izon, Montpon-Ménestérol are near Coutras. 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 Coutras?

The official citizenship distribution records 8,411.314 people (96.9%) 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 = {Coutras, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {abf79e139ba88e1e852f9d134f9302dd},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/coutras/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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