Living in Gray

In Gray, advertised rents for new lettings average €7.56 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 15.1% (2022).

Gray's population was 5,365 at the start of 2023. Gigabit broadband availability was 95.6% in March 2026. The foreign population count was 473 in 2021. For Gray, the unemployment rate was 15.1% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2421 sources

Population5,365people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,580EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent7.56EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 35% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate15.15%country median 11.0% — 38% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime7,381incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 56% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean6µg/m³country median 8.5 — 29% belowOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 95% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 79% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 90% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Gray.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Gray?

Average net cold rent is 7.56 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): 7.56 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr²⁰

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesGray highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Gray€7.56

Show the other 6 cities

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 Fibre¹⁷Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁶Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	575.9 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Dwellings	3,205 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Main residence dwellings	2,551 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.56 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr²⁰Official

Is Gray a good place to live?

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Remote worker52%strong on work, weak on safety · range 44–60%

Skilled employee55%strong on work, weak on safety · range 47–63%

Student52%strong on education, weak on work · range 45–59%

Family44%strong on family, weak on cost · range 37–51%

Retirement55%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 46–64%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 454 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.56 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 Gray?

The unemployment rate is about 15.1 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 15.15 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁹

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Gray is 15.2%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Gray 15.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	95.57 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)¹Official
Gigabit broadband availability	95.57 %	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.⁵Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,580 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²¹Official
Unemployment rate	15.15 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁹Official

What does a salary buy in Gray?

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

Left over each month€1,451of €1,967 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.	€1,967
Rent, 60 m²€7.56/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €454
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	€1,451

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Public employment service

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

Country-level information

France Travail — Public employment service

France Travail

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	3 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹¹Official
Schools	14 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹¹Official

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; Gray's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	972.7 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011³Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Gray 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 residents972.7 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Gray?

Police recorded about 7,381 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 citiesGray 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

Gray7,381

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	7,381 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	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁵Official
Nearest airport	DIJ	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁸Official
Distance to nearest airport	43 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Gray?

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: European Environment Agency⁴

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

PM2.56WHO 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 Gray is 6.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Gray 6.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	6 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 14.07 · Feb 16.22 · Mar 20.64 · Apr 25.48 · May 28.08 · Jun 34.25 · Jul 36.48 · Aug 38.82 · Sep 30.79 · Oct 25.74 · Nov 19.56 · Dec 14.43 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -11.25 · Feb -15.4 · Mar -13.45 · Apr -5.16 · May 0.63 · Jun 2.73 · Jul 7.28 · Aug 7.03 · Sep 2.46 · Oct -4.5 · Nov -7.86 · Dec -13.39 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 1.29 · Feb 2.14 · Mar 5.84 · Apr 9.98 · May 13.82 · Jun 17.8 · Jul 19.5 · Aug 19.03 · Sep 15.13 · Oct 10.97 · Nov 5.68 · Dec 2.19 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official

Annual PM2.5 over time11 published observations, 2014–2024

5.3

8.8

12.2

15.7

6.0201420162018202020222024

Annual PM2.5 fell 57.1% between 2014 and 2024, from 14.0 to 6.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Gray?

The published population was 5,365 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁸

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport91.2%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	20.26 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁹Official
Foreign residents	473 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁴Official
Population density	264.8 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁹Official
Population	5,365 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁸Official

International community in Gray

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	5,365	100.0%
Français	4,846.628	90.3%
Etranger	518.372	9.7%

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

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)¹²Official

Alternatives for people set on Gray

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.

Besançon as a Gray alternative in the same region

39 km away, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 118,489 Besançon vs 5,365 Gray+2109%
Rent: €9.40/m² (2023) Besançon vs €7.56/m² (2025) Grayno percentage
Hospital beds, per 100k: 1,324.5 Besançon vs 972.7 Gray+36%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,646 Besançon vs 7,381 Gray−10%
Nearest airport: 50.0 km Besançon vs 43.0 km Gray+16%
Unemployment: 14.8% Besançon vs 15.1% Graysame level
Median gross pay, region: €2,580 Besançon vs €2,580 Graysame level

Full comparison More about Besançon

Sartrouville as a Gray alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 304 km, better on 4 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 5,365 Gray+883%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 7,381 Gray−38%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,580 Gray+29%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 15.1% Gray−31%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €7.56/m² Grayno percentage
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 43.0 km Gray−58%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities

Calonne-Ricouart5,369 residents Trèbes5,361 residents Parigné-l'Évêque5,358 residents Reyrieux5,358 residents Cruseilles5,376 residents Saint-Astier5,376 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 Gray?

The published population was 5,365 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Gray?

Average net cold rent is 7.56 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 529 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Gray?

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: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Gray?

What is the unemployment rate in Gray?

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 Gray?

The median gross salary is 2,580 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Gray a good place to live?

Gray 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 Gray?

The official citizenship distribution records 4,846.628 people (90.3%) 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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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Gray, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living, jobs},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {05b059beac5e89f89d65d7e939898ffb},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/gray/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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