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Living in Puilboreau

In Puilboreau, rents across existing tenancies average €11.70 per m² a month (2024) and unemployment is 10.6% (2022).

Annual NO₂ was 10.7 µg/m³ in 2024. Puilboreau had a population of 6,765 at the start of 2023. For Puilboreau, the unemployment rate was 10.6% at the end of 2022. The city had 2 schools in 2026. There were 236.5 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual PM2.5 was 6.83 µg/m³ in 2024. The foreign population count was 185 in 2021.

Last checked 2026-09-2430 sources

Population6,765people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,550EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent11.7EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — about the sameOfficial source · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org
Unemployment rate10.61%country median 11.0% — 3% belowOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime5,767incidents 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)
PM2.5, annual mean6.83µg/m³country median 8.5 — 19% belowOfficial source · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.

More recorded crime than 72% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than 93% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Puilboreau?

Average net cold rent is 11.7 EUR/m² per month (2024), 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): 11.7 EUR/m²/month · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org21
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Puilboreau recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Puilboreau€11.70
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 Fibre14Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan13Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)202.2 %31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Dwellings3,521 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Main residence dwellings3,148 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)11.7 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — about the same31 Dec 2024www.observatoires-des-loyers.org21Official

Is Puilboreau 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 worker50%strong on work, weak on safety · range 42–58%
Skilled employee57%strong on work, weak on safety · range 49–65%
Student51%strong on legal route, weak on work · range 42–60%
Family43%strong on family, weak on education · range 35–51%
Retirement52%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 43–61%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 702 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 11.7 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: 2024

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Puilboreau?

The unemployment rate is about 10.6 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 10.61 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Puilboreau is 10.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Gigabit broadband availability98.93 %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.4Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,550 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr20Official
Unemployment rate10.61 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9Official

What does a salary buy in Puilboreau?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,550 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,182of €1,947 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.€1,947
Rent, 60 m²€11.70/m² · official · observatoires-des-loyers.org · 2024-12-31− €702
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€1,182
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Puilboreau Salary needed to live in Puilboreau

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Puilboreau. 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 Puilboreau. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools2 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.16Official · commune

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; Puilboreau's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents236.5 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence7Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Puilboreau 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.

Open the official coverage guide
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Puilboreau?

Police recorded about 5,767 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 citiesPuilboreau highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Puilboreau 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
Puilboreau5,767
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents5,767 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

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Puilboreau?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 6.8 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: 6.83 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
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 Puilboreau is 6.8 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 mean10.73 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 reading21 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.11Official
PM10 — annual mean13.76 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 mean6.83 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 9.6 · Feb 10.6 · Mar 13.6 · Apr 16.1 · May 19.6 · Jun 22.8 · Jul 24.6 · Aug 24.9 · Sep 22.5 · Oct 18.3 · Nov 13.4 · Dec 10.3 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LA_ROCHELLE-ILE_DE_RE19Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan 4.4 · Feb 4.1 · Mar 6.1 · Apr 7.9 · May 11.3 · Jun 14.4 · Jul 16.4 · Aug 16.3 · Sep 13.6 · Oct 11.2 · Nov 7.4 · Dec 4.8 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LA_ROCHELLE-ILE_DE_RE19Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan 7 · Feb 7.3 · Mar 9.8 · Apr 12 · May 15.5 · Jun 18.6 · Jul 20.5 · Aug 20.6 · Sep 18 · Oct 14.7 · Nov 10.4 · Dec 7.5 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LA_ROCHELLE-ILE_DE_RE19Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 76.3 · Feb 56.1 · Mar 57.4 · Apr 60.7 · May 50.9 · Jun 39.3 · Jul 40 · Aug 46.2 · Sep 59.7 · Oct 83.7 · Nov 94.6 · Dec 89.5 mm1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station LA_ROCHELLE-ILE_DE_RE19Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In France: Angers ±1.2 °C. Elsewhere: Saanich (Canada) ±2.6 °C, Portsmouth (United Kingdom) ±2.3 °C, Bexley (United Kingdom) ±1.4 °C, Westminster (United Kingdom) ±1.4 °C, Islington (United Kingdom) ±1.4 °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 7.9 km² in 2026. Population density was 858.5 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Puilboreau?

The published population was 6,765 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area7.88 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte17Official
Foreign residents185 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT112Official
Population density858.5 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte17Official
Population6,765 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8Official

International community in Puilboreau

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
Total6,765100.0%
Français6,594.55697.5%
Etranger170.4442.5%

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

Alternatives for people set on Puilboreau

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.

Nieul-sur-Mer as a Puilboreau alternative in the same region

4 km away, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 1,759 Nieul-sur-Mer vs 5,767 Puilboreau−69%
  • Unemployment: 8.1% Nieul-sur-Mer vs 10.6% Puilboreau−23%
  • Residents: 5,811 Nieul-sur-Mer vs 6,765 Puilboreau−14%
  • Rent: €11.70/m² Nieul-sur-Mer vs €11.70/m² Puilboreausame level
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,550 Nieul-sur-Mer vs €2,550 Puilboreausame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 6.8 µg/m³ Nieul-sur-Mer vs 6.8 µg/m³ Puilboreausame level

Sartrouville as a Puilboreau alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 394 km, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 6,765 Puilboreau+680%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,550 Puilboreau+30%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² (2025) Sartrouville vs €11.70/m² (2024) Puilboreauno percentage
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 6.8 µg/m³ Puilboreau+42%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 5,767 Puilboreau−21%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 10.6% Puilboreausame level

Cities near Puilboreau

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

La Rochelle Commuting Zone · 3.9 km away
Rent
14.75 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
Saint-Xandre 2.4 km away
Rent
13.08 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Lagord 2.9 km away
Rent
11.7 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Périgny 4.0 km away
Rent
11.7 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Dompierre-sur-Mer 4.0 km away
Rent
11.7 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Nieul-sur-Mer 4.3 km away
Rent
11.7 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Aytré 5.7 km away
Rent
11.7 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Sainte-Soulle 8.1 km away
Rent
5.9 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-01-01

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Is Puilboreau part of La Rochelle?

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

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source3

Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Puilboreau?

The published population was 6,765 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Puilboreau?

Average net cold rent is 11.7 EUR/m² per month (2024), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 819 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.observatoires-des-loyers.org.

Is the air quality good in Puilboreau?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 6.8 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 Puilboreau?

Police recorded about 5,767 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 Puilboreau?

The unemployment rate is about 10.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Puilboreau?

The median gross salary is 2,550 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Puilboreau a good place to live?

Puilboreau 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 Puilboreau part of La Rochelle?

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

Which cities are near Puilboreau?

La Rochelle, Saint-Xandre, Lagord, Périgny, Dompierre-sur-Mer are near Puilboreau. 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 Puilboreau?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,594.556 people (97.5%) 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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