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Living in Decize

In Decize, unemployment is 12.6% (2022).

Residents of Decize numbered 5,103 at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-10-0716 sources

Population5,103people31 Dec 2024Official source · Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)
Average gross salary2,825EUR/month31 Dec 2022District figureOfficial source · Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département
Unemployment rate12.63%country median 11.0% — 15% aboveOfficial source · www.insee.fr
Recorded crime3,951incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 17% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean6µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · Collected source

Higher unemployment than 64% of French cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 69% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Decize.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

The dwelling count was 3,447 at the end of 2023.

No city-level rent figure is published for Decize. The available city-level cost figures remain below.

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Decize recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulon€14.43
Toulouse€13.98
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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 Fibre14Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan13Official · national market
Dwellings3,447 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Main residence dwellings2,669 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official

Is Decize a good place to live?

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Remote worker53%strong on work, weak on housing · range 43–63%
Skilled employee58%strong on work, weak on housing · range 50–66%
Student58%strong on education, weak on housing · range 50–66%
Family54%strong on family, weak on housing · range 46–62%
Retirement59%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 48–70%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Decize?

The unemployment rate is about 12.6 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 12.63 % · www.insee.fr16
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Decize is 12.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Average gross earnings2,825 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département8Official · county
Fibre-to-the-building availability93.99 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)1Official
Gigabit broadband availability93.99 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)1Official
Unemployment rate12.63 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr16Official

Public employment offices in Decize

Exact offices linked to this city from official sources. Check the office page before visiting because hours and appointment rules can change.

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Only exact city-linked public offices are listed; this is not a complete directory of private recruiters or every employment provider. Sources checked through 11 Aug 2026.

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary schools4 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)9Official
Schools9 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)9Official

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; Decize's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Hospital capacity in Decize was 1,741.1 beds per 100,000 residents at the end of 2011.

MetricValuePeriodSource
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents1,741 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Decize 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 residents1,741 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Decize?

Police recorded about 3,951 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 citiesDecize highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Decize 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
Decize3,951
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents3,951 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)2Official

Mobility and administration

Decize's nearest airport was CFE, 118 km away and offered 6 direct destinations. Decize's fibre-to-home broadband coverage was 93.99%.

MetricValuePeriodSource
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport6 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights12Official
Distance to the nearest major airport118 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports15Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)CFE3 Aug 2026OurAirports15Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperatures were 1.9°C in January and 19.6°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Decize?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 6 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: Collected source3

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

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 Decize is 6.0 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
PM2.5 — annual mean6 µg/m³31 Dec 2024Collected source3Official source, approximated value · Supplemental context · nearest-station reading
Monthly extreme high temperatureJan 13.89 · Feb 17.53 · Mar 21.17 · Apr 25.27 · May 29.57 · Jun 37.05 · Jul 40.06 · Aug 40.35 · Sep 33.93 · Oct 28.93 · Nov 20.6 · Dec 15.22 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center11Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -11.45 · Feb -13.93 · Mar -11.88 · Apr -5.36 · May -0.38 · Jun 3.1 · Jul 6.76 · Aug 7.56 · Sep 1.29 · Oct -3.94 · Nov -7.27 · Dec -12.34 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center11Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by monthJan 1.94 · Feb 2.58 · Mar 6.08 · Apr 9.92 · May 13.55 · Jun 17.6 · Jul 19.57 · Aug 19.19 · Sep 15.37 · Oct 11.29 · Nov 6.08 · Dec 2.67 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center11Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Decize?

The published population was 5,103 people in January 2024. Source: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)6

MetricValuePeriodSource
Population5,103 people31 Dec 2024Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)6Official
Population over time10 published observations, 1968–2024

Population fell 28.9% between 1968 and 2024, from 7,175 to 5,103.

International community in Decize

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
Total4,932100.0%
Français4,780.87396.9%
Etranger151.1273.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source7

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)10Official

Alternatives for people set on Decize

Nothing here reaches an argued comparison yet: no other published city shares enough metrics with Decize from the same source, period and grain. What is collected is below.

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities
Aÿ-Champagne5,103 residentsVal-de-Moder5,102 residentsChâteau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban5,107 residentsPulnoy5,099 residentsVic-en-Bigorre5,098 residentsFaulquemont5,109 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 Decize?

The published population was 5,103 people in January 2024. Source: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE).

Is the air quality good in Decize?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 6 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: Collected source.

How safe is Decize?

Police recorded about 3,951 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 Decize?

The unemployment rate is about 12.6 % (2022). Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Decize a good place to live?

Decize 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 Decize?

The official citizenship distribution records 4,780.873 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Decize, France: population, salary, cost of living, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 149dcc553eb274a99c9b30e3a399a5c6]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/decize/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Decize, France: population, salary, cost of living, jobs},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {149dcc553eb274a99c9b30e3a399a5c6},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/decize/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
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Sources

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  1. Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse) data.arcep.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  2. Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026) static.data.gouv.fr · checked 2026-09-23
  3. Collected source air.discomap.eea.europa.eu · checked 2026-08-05
  4. DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011 data.gouv.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  5. INSEE insee.fr · checked 2026-08-07
  6. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) insee.fr · checked 2026-08-05
  7. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), France api.insee.fr · checked 2026-08-30
  8. Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département insee.fr · checked 2026-10-07
  9. Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr) data.education.gouv.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  10. Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr) data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr · checked 2026-08-03
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  1. NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center power.larc.nasa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
  2. OpenFlights raw.githubusercontent.com · checked 2026-08-03
  3. Orange 100GB mobile plan boutique.orange.fr · checked 2026-09-15
  4. Orange Livebox Fibre boutique.orange.fr · checked 2026-09-15
  5. OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
  6. www.insee.fr insee.fr · checked 2026-08-26

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