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Living in La Gorgue

In La Gorgue, advertised rents for new lettings average €10.16 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 11% (2022).

The city covered 15 km² in 2026. Population density was 373.7 people per km² in 2023. The city had 3 schools in 2026. Annual PM2.5 was 7.5 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 8.18 µg/m³ in 2024. The unemployment rate was 11% at the end of 2022. The foreign population count was 69 in 2021. For La Gorgue, gigabit broadband availability was 97.9% in March 2026. Its population was 5,616 at the start of 2023.

Last checked 2026-09-2433 sources

Population5,616people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,579EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent10.16EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 12% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate10.98%country median 11.0% — about the sameOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime2,713incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 43% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean7.5µg/m³country median 8.5 — 11% 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 70% of French cities that publish it, less recorded crime than 91% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than 80% of French cities that publish it.

Which France-wide rules apply when you move to La Gorgue?

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 La Gorgue.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in La Gorgue?

Average net cold rent is 10.16 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): 10.16 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr22
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
La Gorgue recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
La Gorgue€10.16
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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 Fibre18Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan17Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)191.1 %31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Dwellings2,564 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Main residence dwellings2,365 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)10.16 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr22Official

Is La Gorgue 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 worker62%strong on work, weak on safety · range 54–70%
Skilled employee62%strong on work, weak on safety · range 54–70%
Student58%strong on cost, weak on work · range 51–65%
Family55%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 48–62%
Retirement68%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 59–77%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 610 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10.16 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 La Gorgue?

The unemployment rate is about 11 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 10.98 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in La Gorgue is 11.0%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability97.86 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability97.86 %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)2,579 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr23Official
Unemployment rate10.98 %country median 11.0% — about the same31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official

What does a salary buy in La Gorgue?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,579 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,295of €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€10.16/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €610
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€1,295
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in La Gorgue Salary needed to live in La Gorgue

Public employment service

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

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools3 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.20Official · commune
Primary schools3 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools3 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; La Gorgue's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents195.9 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence8Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in La Gorgue 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 La Gorgue?

Police recorded about 2,713 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 citiesLa Gorgue highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with La Gorgue 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
La Gorgue2,713
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents2,713 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 airportHZB3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official
Distance to nearest airport6 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in La Gorgue?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.5 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.1

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 La Gorgue is 7.5 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 mean8.18 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 reading4.9 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 mean13.94 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 mean7.5 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 13.52 · Feb 16.71 · Mar 20.82 · Apr 25.07 · May 28.25 · Jun 30.54 · Jul 35.15 · Aug 33.06 · Sep 29.07 · Oct 26.37 · Nov 18.59 · Dec 14.04 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -10.39 · Feb -12.01 · Mar -7.7 · Apr -4.73 · May 0.61 · Jun 3.66 · Jul 6.95 · Aug 8.02 · Sep 3.57 · Oct -3.26 · Nov -4.89 · Dec -8.16 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average temperature by monthJan 3.22 · Feb 3.59 · Mar 6.05 · Apr 9.34 · May 12.66 · Jun 15.73 · Jul 17.61 · Aug 17.41 · Sep 14.67 · Oct 11.23 · Nov 7.04 · Dec 3.84 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Annual PM2.5 over time10 published observations, 2013–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 58.4% between 2013 and 2024, from 18.0 to 7.5.

Population and city profile

How many people live in La Gorgue?

The published population was 5,616 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 area15.03 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Foreign residents69 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official
Population density373.7 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Population5,616 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9Official

International community in La Gorgue

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
Total5,616100.0%
Français5,546.74298.8%
Etranger69.2581.2%

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 La Gorgue

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.

Lestrem as a La Gorgue alternative in the same region

3 km away, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

  • Unemployment: 6.7% Lestrem vs 11.0% La Gorgue−39%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,076 Lestrem vs 2,713 La Gorgue−23%
  • Rent: €9.78/m² Lestrem vs €10.16/m² La Gorgue−4%
  • Residents: 5,009 Lestrem vs 5,616 La Gorgue−11%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,579 Lestrem vs €2,579 La Gorguesame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 7.5 µg/m³ Lestrem vs 7.5 µg/m³ La Gorguesame level
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Cities near La Gorgue

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

Lille Commuting Zone · 24.2 km away
Rent
15.76 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Lestrem 2.7 km away
Rent
9.78 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Laventie 4.2 km away
Rent
10.47 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Merville 5.2 km away
Rent
9.25 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Erquinghem-Lys 10.3 km away
Rent
10.4 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Bailleul 11.1 km away
Rent
11.2 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Nieppe 11.4 km away
Rent
11.36 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Armentières 12.9 km away
Rent
10.4 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

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Rungis5,611 residentsGannat5,610 residentsDelle5,623 residentsSauvian5,608 residentsCloyes-les-Trois-Rivières5,607 residentsLa Ville-aux-Dames5,606 residents

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Is La Gorgue part of Lille?

La Gorgue is in the published commuting zone of Lille; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Lille city profile

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source4

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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 La Gorgue?

The published population was 5,616 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in La Gorgue?

Average net cold rent is 10.16 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 711 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in La Gorgue?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.5 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 La Gorgue?

Police recorded about 2,713 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 La Gorgue?

The unemployment rate is about 11 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around La Gorgue?

The median gross salary is 2,579 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is La Gorgue a good place to live?

La Gorgue 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.

Is La Gorgue part of Lille?

La Gorgue is in the published commuting zone of Lille; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

Which cities are near La Gorgue?

Lille, Lestrem, Laventie, Merville, Erquinghem-Lys are near La Gorgue. 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 La Gorgue?

The official citizenship distribution records 5,546.742 people (98.8%) 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). La Gorgue, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 99f219d2ee8acc3531eff8e263911cae]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/la-gorgue/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  title = {La Gorgue, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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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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