Living in Lisieux

In Lisieux, advertised rents for new lettings average €10.44 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 17.4% (2022).

The city covered 13.1 km² in 2026. Population density was 1,503 people per km² in 2023. The city had 22 schools in 2026. The unemployment rate was 17.4% at the end of 2022. The foreign population count was 812 in 2021. Gigabit broadband availability was 94.4% in March 2026. Its population was 19,645 at the start of 2023.

Last checked 2026-09-2425 sources

Population19,645people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,606EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent10.44EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 10% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate17.38%country median 11.0% — 58% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime7,285incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 54% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean8µg/m³country median 8.5 — 6% belowOfficial source · EEA Air Quality Annual Statistics — validated PM2.5 station data

Cheaper rent than 65% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 88% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 89% of French cities that publish it.

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

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Lisieux?

Average net cold rent is 10.44 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): 10.44 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr²³

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesLisieux highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Lisieux€10.44

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 Fibre¹⁹Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁸Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	1,176 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Dwellings	11,991 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁸Official
Main residence dwellings	10,560 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁸Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	10.44 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr²³Official

Is Lisieux 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 worker46%strong on work, weak on safety · range 38–54%

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

Student55%strong on education, weak on work · range 48–62%

Family48%strong on family, weak on cost · range 41–55%

Retirement48%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 39–57%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 626 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10.44 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 Lisieux?

The unemployment rate is about 17.4 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 17.38 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹²

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Lisieux is 17.4%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Lisieux 17.4%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	94.39 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)²Official
Gigabit broadband availability	94.39 %	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.⁶Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,606 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²⁵Official
Unemployment rate	17.38 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹²Official

What does a salary buy in Lisieux?

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

Left over each month€1,298of €1,987 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.	€1,987
Rent, 60 m²€10.44/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €626
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	€1,298

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Lisieux Salary needed to live in Lisieux

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Lisieux. 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

Job SearchUnemployment Claim

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	22 schools	27 May 2026	RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.²¹Official · commune
Primary schools	10 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁴Official
Schools	26 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁴Official

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; Lisieux's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents	71.26 per 100,000 people	31 Dec 2024	INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence¹⁰Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	1,598 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011⁴Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Lisieux 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 residents1,598 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Lisieux?

Police recorded about 7,285 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 citiesLisieux 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

Lisieux7,285

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	7,285 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)³Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁷Official
Nearest airport	DOL	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports²⁰Official
Distance to nearest airport	25 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports²⁰Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024. Annual PM10 was 14.6 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Lisieux?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: EEA Air Quality Annual Statistics — validated PM2.5 station data⁵

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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7°3°

8°2°

11°4°

14°6°

17°9°

20°11°

22°13°

19°11°

15°9°

11°5°

8°3°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

107

JFMAMJJASOND

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

PM2.58WHO 5 · EU 25

PM1014.6WHO 15 · EU 40

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 Lisieux is 8.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Lisieux 8.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM10 — annual mean	14.61 µg/m³country median 14.2	2024	2024 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 mean	8 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	EEA Air Quality Annual Statistics — validated PM2.5 station data⁵Official
Average daytime high by month	Jan 7.4 · Feb 8.2 · Mar 11 · Apr 13.9 · May 16.9 · Jun 19.7 · Jul 21.6 · Aug 21.7 · Sep 19.2 · Oct 15.3 · Nov 10.9 · Dec 8.1 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ST_GATIEN_DES_B²⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan 2.5 · Feb 2.4 · Mar 4.1 · Apr 5.6 · May 8.5 · Jun 11.3 · Jul 13.2 · Aug 13.4 · Sep 11.1 · Oct 8.7 · Nov 5.4 · Dec 3 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ST_GATIEN_DES_B²⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 5 · Feb 5.3 · Mar 7.5 · Apr 9.7 · May 12.7 · Jun 15.5 · Jul 17.4 · Aug 17.5 · Sep 15.2 · Oct 12 · Nov 8.2 · Dec 5.5 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ST_GATIEN_DES_B²⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 77.9 · Feb 64.4 · Mar 61.2 · Apr 60.4 · May 65.3 · Jun 68.3 · Jul 64.2 · Aug 81.4 · Sep 80.4 · Oct 95.3 · Nov 94.5 · Dec 107.1 mm	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ST_GATIEN_DES_B²⁴Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In France: Rouen ±0.7 °C. Elsewhere: Saanich (Canada) ±0.8 °C, Blackpool (United Kingdom) ±0.8 °C, Crawley (United Kingdom) ±0.5 °C, Croydon (United Kingdom) ±0.5 °C, Sutton (United Kingdom) ±0.5 °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 Lisieux?

The published population was 19,645 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune¹¹

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport95.9%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	13.07 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²²Official
Foreign residents	812 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁶Official
Population density	1,503 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²²Official
Population	19,645 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune¹¹Official

International community in Lisieux

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	19,645	100.0%
Français	18,645.302	94.9%
Etranger	999.698	5.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹³

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)¹⁵Official

Alternatives for people set on Lisieux

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.

Sartrouville as a Lisieux alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 143 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 19,645 Lisieux+169%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 17.4% Lisieux−40%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 7,285 Lisieux−37%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,606 Lisieux+27%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €10.44/m² Lisieuxno percentage
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 25.0 km Lisieux−28%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities

Bruz19,683 residents Sélestat19,589 residents La Crau19,556 residents Pertuis19,548 residents Le Mée-sur-Seine19,527 residents Mougins19,782 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 Lisieux?

The published population was 19,645 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Lisieux?

Average net cold rent is 10.44 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 731 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Lisieux?

How safe is Lisieux?

What is the unemployment rate in Lisieux?

The unemployment rate is about 17.4 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Lisieux?

The median gross salary is 2,606 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Lisieux a good place to live?

Lisieux 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 Lisieux?

The official citizenship distribution records 18,645.302 people (94.9%) 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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  title = {Lisieux, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}

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