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Living in Douvaine

In Douvaine, advertised rents for new lettings average €18.25 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 10.6% (2022).

The city had 5 schools in 2026. There were 58.9 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 15.9 µg/m³ in 2024. The unemployment rate was 10.6% at the end of 2022. For Douvaine, annual PM2.5 was 8.24 µg/m³ in 2024. At the start of 2023, Douvaine had a population of 6,796. The city covered 10.5 km² in 2026. Population density was 645 people per km² in 2023.

Last checked 2026-09-2432 sources

Population6,796people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,749EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent18.25EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 57% aboveOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate10.55%country median 11.0% — 4% belowOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime4,859incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 2% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean8.24µg/m³country median 8.5 — 3% belowOfficial source · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.

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

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 Douvaine.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Douvaine?

Average net cold rent is 18.25 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): 18.25 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr22
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Douvaine recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Douvaine€18.25
Lyon€16.57
Nantes€14.50
Toulouse€13.98
Show the other 6 cities
Marseille€16.30
Bordeaux€15.99
Lille€15.76
Strasbourg€15.57
Montpellier€15.49
Rennes€14.87
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)327.4 %31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Dwellings3,657 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Main residence dwellings3,161 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)18.25 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr22Official

Is Douvaine 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 employee46%strong on work, weak on safety · range 38–54%
Student20%strong on education, weak on work · range 13–27%
Family36%strong on family, weak on cost · range 29–43%
Retirement42%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 33–51%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 1,095 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 18.25 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 Douvaine?

The unemployment rate is about 10.6 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 10.55 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Douvaine is 10.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Gigabit broadband availability92.42 %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.4Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,749 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr23Official
Unemployment rate10.55 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9Official

What does a salary buy in Douvaine?

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€924of €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€18.25/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €1,095
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€924
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Douvaine Salary needed to live in Douvaine

Public employment service

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools5 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.20Official · commune
Primary schools1 schools31 Dec 2025INSEE5Official

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; Douvaine's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents58.86 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence7Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Douvaine 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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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Douvaine?

Police recorded about 4,859 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 citiesDouvaine highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Douvaine 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
Douvaine4,859
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents4,859 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

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Douvaine?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.2 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: 8.24 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
Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C
Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm
Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours
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 Douvaine is 8.2 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 mean15.88 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 reading21.1 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.11Official
PM10 — annual mean14.03 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 mean8.24 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
Average daytime high by monthJan 4.5 · Feb 6.1 · Mar 10.9 · Apr 15 · May 19.2 · Jun 23.2 · Jul 25.6 · Aug 25.1 · Sep 20.2 · Oct 14.7 · Nov 8.7 · Dec 5.1 °C31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO13Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan -0.7 · Feb -0.5 · Mar 2.3 · Apr 5.1 · May 9 · Jun 12.6 · Jul 14.6 · Aug 14.4 · Sep 11.1 · Oct 7.5 · Nov 3 · Dec 0.1 °C31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO14Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan 1.9 · Feb 2.7 · Mar 6.6 · Apr 10.2 · May 14.2 · Jun 18 · Jul 20.1 · Aug 19.6 · Sep 15.5 · Oct 11 · Nov 5.9 · Dec 2.7 °C31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO15Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 81.9 · Feb 63.3 · Mar 64.5 · Apr 66.7 · May 86.2 · Jun 83.6 · Jul 84.1 · Aug 84 · Sep 85.6 · Oct 98.5 · Nov 95.7 · Dec 99.5 mm31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO16Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by monthJan 71.6 · Feb 108.1 · Mar 171.4 · Apr 193.1 · May 214 · Jun 242.6 · Jul 266.3 · Aug 243.8 · Sep 192.6 · Oct 127.4 · Nov 74.2 · Dec 55.8 hours31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO17Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In France: Reims ±1.0 °C. Elsewhere: Werl (Germany) ±0.8 °C, Cottbus (Germany) ±0.9 °C, Berlin (Germany) ±1.0 °C, Hoyerswerda (Germany) ±1.0 °C, Geneva (Switzerland) ±0.6 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Douvaine?

The published population was 6,796 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area10.54 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Foreign residents1,065 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT112Official
Population density644.8 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Population6,796 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8Official

International community in Douvaine

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
Total6,796100.0%
Français5,729.2584.3%
Etranger1,066.7515.7%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source10

Alternatives for people set on Douvaine

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.

Allinges as a Douvaine alternative in the same region

13 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 1,765 Allinges vs 4,859 Douvaine−64%
  • Rent: €14.60/m² Allinges vs €18.25/m² Douvaineno percentage
  • Unemployment: 7.7% Allinges vs 10.6% Douvaine−27%
  • Residents: 5,019 Allinges vs 6,796 Douvaine−26%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,749 Allinges vs €2,749 Douvainesame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 8.2 µg/m³ Allinges vs 8.2 µg/m³ Douvainesame level
Full comparisonMore about Allinges

Sartrouville as a Douvaine alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 427 km, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 6,796 Douvaine+676%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €18.25/m² Douvaineno percentage
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,749 Douvaine+21%
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 8.2 µg/m³ Douvaine+18%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,859 Douvaine−6%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 10.6% Douvainesame level
Full comparisonMore about Sartrouville

Cities near Douvaine

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

Sciez 6.2 km away
Rent
16.57 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Versoix Switzerland · 10.8 km away
Rent
22.34 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-05-31
Ville-la-Grand 12.2 km away
Rent
16.15 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Allinges 12.7 km away
Rent
14.6 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Cranves-Sales 13.2 km away
Rent
21.19 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30

Alternative cities in France

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

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Beuvrages6,796 residentsPoussan6,797 residentsLoos-en-Gohelle6,799 residentsPloeren6,790 residentsCaussade6,803 residentsQuesnoy-sur-Deûle6,805 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 Douvaine?

The published population was 6,796 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Douvaine?

Average net cold rent is 18.25 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 1,278 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Douvaine?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.2 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 Douvaine?

Police recorded about 4,859 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 Douvaine?

The unemployment rate is about 10.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Douvaine?

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

Is Douvaine a good place to live?

Douvaine 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 Douvaine?

Sciez, Nyon, Collonge-Bellerive, Versoix, Ville-la-Grand are near Douvaine. 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 Douvaine?

The official citizenship distribution records 5,729.25 people (84.3%) 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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  title = {Douvaine, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  date = {2026-10-16},
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