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Living in Crest

In Crest, advertised rents for new lettings average €9.88 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 12.6% (2022).

In 2021, the foreign population was 331. The city had 12 schools in 2026. There were 127.1 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. The unemployment rate was 12.6% at the end of 2022. Crest is in France; its population was 8,658 at the start of 2023.

Last checked 2026-09-2431 sources

Population8,658people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,749EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent9.88EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 15% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate12.62%country median 11.0% — 15% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime5,594incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 18% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean7.29µg/m³country median 8.5 — 14% 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 74% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 64% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 69% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Crest.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Crest?

Average net cold rent is 9.88 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): 9.88 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr22
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Crest recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Crest€9.88
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 Fibre18Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan17Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)566.5 %31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Dwellings5,041 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Main residence dwellings4,280 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)9.88 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr22Official

Is Crest 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 worker47%strong on work, weak on safety · range 39–55%
Skilled employee55%strong on work, weak on safety · range 47–63%
Student54%strong on education, weak on work · range 47–61%
Family49%strong on family, weak on cost · range 42–56%
Retirement50%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 41–59%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 593 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 9.88 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 Crest?

The unemployment rate is about 12.6 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 12.62 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Crest is 12.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability90.34 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability90.34 %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)2,749 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr23Official
Unemployment rate12.62 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official

What does a salary buy in Crest?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,749 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,426of €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€9.88/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €593
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€1,426
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Crest Salary needed to live in Crest

Public employment service

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools12 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.20Official · commune
Primary schools6 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools14 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; Crest's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents127.1 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence8Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents622.3 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Crest 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 residents622.3 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Crest?

Police recorded about 5,594 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 citiesCrest highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Crest 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
Crest5,594
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents5,594 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
Nearest airportVAF3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official
Distance to nearest airport22 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 7.29 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 15.1 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual PM10 was 15.6 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Crest?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.3 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: 7.29 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 Crest is 7.3 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 mean15.14 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 reading12.88 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 mean15.56 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 mean7.29 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 15.73 · Feb 18.22 · Mar 21.68 · Apr 25.66 · May 30.6 · Jun 39.25 · Jul 38.31 · Aug 39.97 · Sep 33.88 · Oct 28.22 · Nov 20.29 · Dec 15.43 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -11.01 · Feb -13.39 · Mar -10.74 · Apr -2.54 · May 0.99 · Jun 4.63 · Jul 8.4 · Aug 8.55 · Sep 3.07 · Oct -2.95 · Nov -5.62 · Dec -10.78 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average temperature by monthJan 2.4 · Feb 3.04 · Mar 6.72 · Apr 10.53 · May 14.55 · Jun 19.66 · Jul 22.55 · Aug 21.94 · Sep 17.18 · Oct 12.58 · Nov 6.87 · Dec 3.15 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Annual PM2.5 over time12 published observations, 2013–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 57.1% between 2013 and 2024, from 17.0 to 7.3.

Population and city profile

The city covered 23.4 km² in 2026. Population density was 370.3 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Crest?

The published population was 8,658 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 area23.38 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Foreign residents331 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official
Population density370.3 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Population8,658 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9Official

International community in Crest

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
Total8,658100.0%
Français8,278.04195.6%
Etranger379.9594.4%

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 Crest

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.

Chabeuil as a Crest alternative in the same region

19 km away, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Unemployment: 6.9% Chabeuil vs 12.6% Crest−45%
  • Rent: €11.37/m² Chabeuil vs €9.88/m² Crestno percentage
  • Annual PM2.5: 10.4 µg/m³ Chabeuil vs 7.3 µg/m³ Crest+43%
  • Nearest airport: 4.0 km Chabeuil vs 22.0 km Crest−82%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,586 Chabeuil vs 5,594 Crest−18%
  • Residents: 6,833 Chabeuil vs 8,658 Crest−21%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,749 Chabeuil vs €2,749 Crestsame level
Full comparisonMore about Chabeuil

Massy as a Crest alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 492 km, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 51,729 Massy vs 8,658 Crest+497%
  • Rent: €20.08/m² Massy vs €9.88/m² Crestno percentage
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Massy vs €2,749 Crest+21%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% Massy vs 12.6% Crest−23%
  • Nearest airport: 6.0 km Massy vs 22.0 km Crest−73%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,806 Massy vs 5,594 Crest+22%
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.8 µg/m³ Massy vs 7.3 µg/m³ Crest+34%
Full comparisonMore about Massy

Cities near Crest

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

Livron-sur-Drôme 15.0 km away
Rent
9.73 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Étoile-sur-Rhône 15.8 km away
Rent
10.12 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Loriol-sur-Drôme 16.0 km away
Rent
8.93 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Chabeuil 19.1 km away
Rent
11.37 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Valence 25.0 km away
Rent
11.93 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities
Saint-Jory8,662 residentsIsbergues8,650 residentsThorigné-Fouillard8,667 residentsJanzé8,649 residentsLe Poiré-sur-Vie8,649 residentsEssey-lès-Nancy8,670 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 Crest?

The published population was 8,658 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Crest?

Average net cold rent is 9.88 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 692 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Crest?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.3 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 Crest?

Police recorded about 5,594 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 Crest?

The unemployment rate is about 12.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Crest?

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

Is Crest a good place to live?

Crest 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 Crest?

Livron-sur-Drôme, Étoile-sur-Rhône, Loriol-sur-Drôme, Chabeuil, Portes-lès-Valence are near Crest. 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 Crest?

The official citizenship distribution records 8,278.041 people (95.6%) 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). Crest, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 68fa28b6a7c5ec643e4ad7323c6907d2]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/crest/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Crest, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {68fa28b6a7c5ec643e4ad7323c6907d2},
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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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