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In Montbard, unemployment is 18.4% (2022).

The population of Montbard totalled 4,773 at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-10-0717 sources

Population4,773people31 Dec 2024Official source · Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)
Average gross salary3,179EUR/month31 Dec 2022District figureOfficial source · Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département
Unemployment rate18.42%country median 11.0% — 68% aboveOfficial source · www.insee.fr
Recorded crime5,777incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 22% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

Higher unemployment than 91% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 72% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Montbard.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

The dwelling count was 3,060 at the end of 2023.

No city-level rent figure is published for Montbard. The available city-level cost figures remain below.

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Montbard recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulon€14.43
Toulouse€13.98
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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 Fibre13Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan12Official · national market
Dwellings3,060 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE4Official
Main residence dwellings2,404 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE4Official

Is Montbard 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 worker57%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 47–67%
Skilled employee60%strong on work, weak on housing · range 52–68%
Student60%strong on education, weak on housing · range 52–68%
Family50%strong on family, weak on housing · range 42–58%
Retirement57%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 46–68%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Montbard?

The unemployment rate is about 18.4 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 18.42 % · www.insee.fr15
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Montbard is 18.4%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Average gross earnings3,179 EUR/month31 Dec 2022Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département7Official · county
Fibre-to-the-building availability97.29 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)1Official
Gigabit broadband availability97.29 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)1Official
Unemployment rate18.42 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr15Official

Public employment offices in Montbard

Exact offices linked to this city from official sources. Check the office page before visiting because hours and appointment rules can change.

Verified locally

Votre agence France Travail — Verified local office

ESPACE COLISEE, 11 PASSAGE GEORGES BRASSENS, 21500 MONTBARD, 21500

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Only exact city-linked public offices are listed; this is not a complete directory of private recruiters or every employment provider. Sources checked through 11 Aug 2026.

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary schools5 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)8Official
Schools9 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)8Official

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; Montbard's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

The availability of hospital beds in Montbard was 1,777.9 beds per 100,000 residents at the end of 2011.

MetricValuePeriodSource
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents1,778 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20113Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Montbard 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 residents1,778 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Montbard?

Police recorded about 5,777 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 citiesMontbard highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Montbard 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
Montbard5,777
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents5,777 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

Montbard's nearest airport was DIJ, 69 km away and offered 1 direct destinations. Montbard's fibre-to-home broadband coverage was 97.29%.

MetricValuePeriodSource
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport1 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights11Official
Distance to the nearest major airport69 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports14Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)DIJ3 Aug 2026OurAirports14Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Montbard's monthly mean temperatures were 1.4°C in January and 18.8°C in July.

MetricValuePeriodSource
Monthly extreme high temperatureJan 13.28 · Feb 17.74 · Mar 20.46 · Apr 25.28 · May 27.48 · Jun 34.4 · Jul 37.96 · Aug 39.4 · Sep 31.86 · Oct 26.7 · Nov 19.46 · Dec 14.28 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center10Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -11.52 · Feb -15.49 · Mar -12.72 · Apr -5.67 · May -0.15 · Jun 2.25 · Jul 6.33 · Aug 6.53 · Sep 0.89 · Oct -4.33 · Nov -7.53 · Dec -13.55 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center10Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by monthJan 1.36 · Feb 1.96 · Mar 5.48 · Apr 9.36 · May 13.02 · Jun 16.91 · Jul 18.77 · Aug 18.31 · Sep 14.55 · Oct 10.57 · Nov 5.54 · Dec 2.16 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center10Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Montbard?

The published population was 4,773 people in January 2024. Source: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)5

MetricValuePeriodSource
Population4,773 people31 Dec 2024Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)5Official
Population over time10 published observations, 1968–2024

Population fell 32.3% between 1968 and 2024, from 7,050 to 4,773.

International community in Montbard

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
Total4,639100.0%
Français4,437.49295.7%
Etranger201.5084.3%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source6

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)9Official

Alternatives for people set on Montbard

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.

Cities near Montbard

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

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities
Reichstett4,768 residentsSaint-Pol-sur-Ternoise4,783 residentsBourbon-Lancy4,755 residentsFumel4,799 residentsLa Charité-sur-Loire4,747 residentsMandeure4,746 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 Montbard?

The published population was 4,773 people in January 2024. Source: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE).

How safe is Montbard?

Police recorded about 5,777 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 Montbard?

The unemployment rate is about 18.4 % (2022). Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Montbard a good place to live?

Montbard 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 Montbard?

Semur-en-Auxois is near Montbard. 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 Montbard?

The official citizenship distribution records 4,437.492 people (95.7%) 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). Montbard, France: population, salary, cost of living, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version cb7cbbbeeef1b3d2404f1f9d4ebacf0d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/montbard/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Montbard, France: population, salary, cost of living, jobs},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}
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Sources

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  1. Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse) data.arcep.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  2. Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026) static.data.gouv.fr · checked 2026-09-23
  3. DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011 data.gouv.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  4. INSEE insee.fr · checked 2026-08-07
  5. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) insee.fr · checked 2026-08-05
  6. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), France api.insee.fr · checked 2026-08-30
  7. Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département insee.fr · checked 2026-10-07
  8. Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr) data.education.gouv.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  9. Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr) data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr · checked 2026-08-03
  10. NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center power.larc.nasa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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  1. OpenFlights raw.githubusercontent.com · checked 2026-08-03
  2. Orange 100GB mobile plan boutique.orange.fr · checked 2026-09-15
  3. Orange Livebox Fibre boutique.orange.fr · checked 2026-09-15
  4. OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
  5. www.insee.fr insee.fr · checked 2026-08-26
  6. Coordinate identity evidence wikidata.org · checked 2026-09-06
  7. Coordinate identity evidence wikidata.org · checked 2026-09-06

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