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Living in Lure

In Lure, advertised rents for new lettings average €7.57 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 17.6% (2022).

The foreign population count was 622 in 2021. Lure had a population of 7,877 at the start of 2023. The unemployment rate was 17.6% at the end of 2022. The city had 13 schools in 2026. There were 25.4 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2424 sources

Population7,877people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,580EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent7.57EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 35% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate17.62%country median 11.0% — 61% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime6,562incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 38% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean8.11µg/m³country median 8.5 — 4% 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 95% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 89% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 82% of French cities that publish it.

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

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

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Lure?

Average net cold rent is 7.57 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): 7.57 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr20
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Lure recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Lure€7.57
Show the other 6 cities
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 Fibre16Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan15Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)457.1 %31 Dec 2023INSEE4Official
Dwellings4,370 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Main residence dwellings3,830 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)7.57 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr20Official

Is Lure 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 employee53%strong on work, weak on safety · range 45–61%
Student53%strong on education, weak on work · range 46–60%
Family45%strong on family, weak on cost · range 38–52%
Retirement44%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 35–53%

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 7.57 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 Lure?

The unemployment rate is about 17.6 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 17.62 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune8
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Lure is 17.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Gigabit broadband availability96.7 %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.3Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,580 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr22Official
Unemployment rate17.62 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune8Official

What does a salary buy in Lure?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,580 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,450of €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€7.57/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€1,450
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Lure Salary needed to live in Lure

Public employment service

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

Country-level information

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools13 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.18Official · commune
Primary schools7 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)11Official
Schools15 count3 Aug 2026Ministère 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; Lure's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents25.39 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence6Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Lure 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 Lure?

Police recorded about 6,562 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 citiesLure highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Lure 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
Lure6,562
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents6,562 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

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport66 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights14Official
Nearest airportBSL3 Aug 2026OurAirports17Official
Distance to nearest airport77 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports17Official

Language courses and integration

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

DIAN language-training offer finder — Other

Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN

For people seeking French-language training.

FrenchIn Person, Online
National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Lure.

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 8.11 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 13 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Lure?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.1 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: 8.11 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 Lure is 8.1 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 mean13 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 reading15.33 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.10Official
PM10 — annual mean12.25 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 mean8.11 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 5.6 · Feb 7.6 · Mar 12.3 · Apr 16.4 · May 20.2 · Jun 23.9 · Jul 26 · Aug 25.8 · Sep 21.3 · Oct 16.2 · Nov 9.9 · Dec 6.2 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LUXEUIL21Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan -1.2 · Feb -1.1 · Mar 1.3 · Apr 3.9 · May 8.1 · Jun 11.7 · Jul 13.5 · Aug 13.2 · Sep 9.5 · Oct 6.4 · Nov 2.4 · Dec -0.2 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LUXEUIL21Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan 2.2 · Feb 3.2 · Mar 6.8 · Apr 10.1 · May 14.2 · Jun 17.8 · Jul 19.7 · Aug 19.5 · Sep 15.4 · Oct 11.3 · Nov 6.2 · Dec 3 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LUXEUIL21Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 79.7 · Feb 68.4 · Mar 69.5 · Apr 66.2 · May 93.1 · Jun 83.3 · Jul 81.1 · Aug 77.3 · Sep 80.9 · Oct 93.2 · Nov 89.8 · Dec 94.8 mm1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LUXEUIL21Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by monthJan 68 · Feb 93 · Mar 151 · Apr 182 · May 206 · Jun 233 · Jul 249 · Aug 231 · Sep 181 · Oct 120 · Nov 70 · Dec 58 hours1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LUXEUIL21Official · nearest-station reading
Annual PM2.5 over time12 published observations, 2013–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 59.4% between 2013 and 2024, from 20.0 to 8.1.

Similar climate. In France: Reims ±0.8 °C. Elsewhere: Cottbus (Germany) ±0.9 °C, Werl (Germany) ±1.0 °C, Hoyerswerda (Germany) ±1.0 °C, Geneva (Switzerland) ±0.6 °C, Berlin (Germany) ±1.1 °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

The city covered 24.3 km² in 2026. Population density was 324.0 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Lure?

The published population was 7,877 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune7

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area24.31 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte19Official
Foreign residents622 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT113Official
Population density324 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte19Official
Population7,877 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune7Official

International community in Lure

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
Total7,877100.0%
Français7,266.25492.2%
Etranger610.7467.8%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source9

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)12Official

Alternatives for people set on Lure

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.

Luxeuil-les-Bains as a Lure alternative in the same region

17 km away, better on 2 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

  • Unemployment: 19.0% Luxeuil-les-Bains vs 17.6% Lure+8%
  • Annual PM2.5: 7.2 µg/m³ Luxeuil-les-Bains vs 8.1 µg/m³ Lure−11%
  • Nearest airport: 61.0 km Luxeuil-les-Bains vs 77.0 km Lure−21%
  • Rent: €7.77/m² Luxeuil-les-Bains vs €7.57/m² Luresame level
  • Residents: 6,663 Luxeuil-les-Bains vs 7,877 Lure−15%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,488 Luxeuil-les-Bains vs 6,562 Luresame level
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,580 Luxeuil-les-Bains vs €2,580 Luresame level

Sartrouville as a Lure alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 349 km, better on 4 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 7,877 Lure+570%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 17.6% Lure−40%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,580 Lure+29%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 6,562 Lure−30%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €7.57/m² Lureno percentage
  • Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 77.0 km Lure−77%
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 8.1 µg/m³ Lure+20%

Cities near Lure

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

Luxeuil-les-Bains 17.1 km away
Rent
7.77 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

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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 Lure?

The published population was 7,877 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Lure?

Average net cold rent is 7.57 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 530 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Lure?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.1 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 Lure?

Police recorded about 6,562 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 Lure?

The unemployment rate is about 17.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Lure?

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

Is Lure a good place to live?

Lure 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 Lure?

Luxeuil-les-Bains is near Lure. 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 Lure?

The official citizenship distribution records 7,266.254 people (92.2%) 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 = {Lure, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living, jobs},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}
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