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Living in Rombas

In Rombas, advertised rents for new lettings average €10.00 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 13% (2022).

Rombas is a city in France, with a population of 9,371 at the start of 2023. The unemployment rate was 13% at the end of 2022. Annual PM10 was 12.2 µg/m³ in 2024. The city covered 11.7 km² in 2026. Population density was 801.6 people per km² in 2023. The city had 10 schools in 2026. There were 74.7 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual PM2.5 was 7.87 µg/m³ in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2433 sources

Population9,371people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,641EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent10EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 14% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate13.04%country median 11.0% — 19% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime4,161incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 12% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean7.87µg/m³country median 8.5 — 7% 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 72% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 67% of French cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 64% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Rombas.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Rombas?

Average net cold rent is 10 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 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr23
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Rombas recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Rombas€10.00
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 Fibre19Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan18Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)463 %31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Dwellings4,937 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Main residence dwellings4,450 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)10 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr23Official

Is Rombas 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 worker45%strong on work, weak on safety · range 37–53%
Skilled employee53%strong on legal route, weak on safety · range 45–61%
Student54%strong on education, weak on work · range 47–61%
Family53%strong on family, weak on cost · range 46–60%
Retirement55%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 46–64%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 600 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10 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 Rombas?

The unemployment rate is about 13 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 13.04 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Rombas is 13.0%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability0 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability0 %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)2,641 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr24Official
Unemployment rate13.04 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official

What does a salary buy in Rombas?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,641 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,345of €2,008 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.€2,008
Rent, 60 m²€10.00/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €600
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€1,345
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Rombas Salary needed to live in Rombas

Public employment service

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

Country-level information
Open the France service overview

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools10 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.21Official · commune
Primary schools7 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools11 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; Rombas's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents74.7 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence8Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Rombas 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 Rombas?

Police recorded about 4,161 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 citiesRombas highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Rombas 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
Rombas4,161
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents4,161 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
Destinations from nearest airport5 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights17Official
Nearest airportETZ3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official
Distance to nearest airport32 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Rombas?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.9 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: 7.87 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
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 Rombas is 7.9 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/m³31 Dec 2024EEA air quality statistics — FR NO2 annual mean 2024 (station Thionville-Centre)4Official · nearest-station reading
NO₂ — latest reading8.44 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 mean12.18 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 mean7.87 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 12.89 · Feb 17.18 · Mar 20.14 · Apr 25.45 · May 29.61 · Jun 35.79 · Jul 39.85 · Aug 39.13 · Sep 34.23 · Oct 25.79 · Nov 19.67 · Dec 13.83 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -15.53 · Feb -17.75 · Mar -12.35 · Apr -5.42 · May -0.3 · Jun 3.97 · Jul 6.79 · Aug 5.96 · Sep 1.54 · Oct -4.87 · Nov -7.02 · Dec -16.53 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average temperature by monthJan 0.82 · Feb 1.6 · Mar 5 · Apr 9.3 · May 13.36 · Jun 17.41 · Jul 19.63 · Aug 19.09 · Sep 14.95 · Oct 10.29 · Nov 5.28 · Dec 1.72 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Annual PM2.5 over time12 published observations, 2013–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 53.7% between 2013 and 2024, from 17.0 to 7.9.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Rombas?

The published population was 9,371 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 area11.69 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Foreign residents979 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official
Population density801.6 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Population9,371 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9Official

International community in Rombas

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
Total9,371100.0%
Français8,43890.0%
Etranger93310.0%

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 Rombas

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.

Marange-Silvange as a Rombas alternative in the same region

4 km away, better on 3 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,222 Marange-Silvange vs 4,161 Rombas−47%
  • Rent: €11.27/m² Marange-Silvange vs €10.00/m² Rombas+13%
  • Unemployment: 11.0% Marange-Silvange vs 13.0% Rombas−16%
  • Residents: 6,539 Marange-Silvange vs 9,371 Rombas−30%
  • Nearest airport: 27.0 km Marange-Silvange vs 32.0 km Rombas−16%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,641 Marange-Silvange vs €2,641 Rombassame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 7.9 µg/m³ Marange-Silvange vs 7.9 µg/m³ Rombassame level
Full comparisonMore about Marange-Silvange

Sartrouville as a Rombas alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 288 km, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 9,371 Rombas+463%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,641 Rombas+26%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €10.00/m² Rombasno percentage
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 13.0% Rombas−20%
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 7.9 µg/m³ Rombas+23%
  • Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 32.0 km Rombas−44%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,161 Rombas+10%
Full comparisonMore about Sartrouville

Cities near Rombas

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

Moyeuvre-Grande 3.6 km away
Rent
8.84 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Amnéville 3.7 km away
Rent
12.21 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Marange-Silvange 4.3 km away
Rent
11.27 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Hagondange 5.3 km away
Rent
11.63 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Mondelange 5.6 km away
Rent
12.03 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Fameck 5.6 km away
Rent
12.03 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Talange 6.0 km away
Rent
11.21 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities
Mont-Saint-Martin9,361 residentsChaponost9,382 residentsMagny-les-Hameaux9,386 residentsJarville-la-Malgrange9,356 residentsBelley9,388 residentsSaint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu9,400 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 Rombas?

The published population was 9,371 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Rombas?

Average net cold rent is 10 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 700 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Rombas?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.9 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 Rombas?

Police recorded about 4,161 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 Rombas?

The unemployment rate is about 13 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Rombas?

The median gross salary is 2,641 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Rombas a good place to live?

Rombas 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 Rombas?

Moyeuvre-Grande, Amnéville, Marange-Silvange, Hagondange, Mondelange are near Rombas. 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 Rombas?

The official citizenship distribution records 8,438 people (90.0%) 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 = {Rombas, 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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