Living in Roye

In Roye, advertised rents for new lettings average €9.93 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 19.8% (2022).

Annual PM2.5 was 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024. Roye had a population of 5,833 at the start of 2023. For Roye, the foreign population count was 81 in 2021. The unemployment rate was 19.8% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2422 sources

Population5,833people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,579EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent9.93EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 14% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate19.84%country median 11.0% — 81% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime6,668incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 41% 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 73% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 94% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 83% of French cities that publish it.

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

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Roye?

Average net cold rent is 9.93 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): 9.93 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr¹⁷

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesRoye highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Roye€9.93

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 Fibre¹⁴Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹³Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	282.1 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁴Official
Dwellings	3,059 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Main residence dwellings	2,712 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	9.93 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr¹⁷Official

Is Roye 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 worker44%strong on work, weak on safety · range 36–52%

Skilled employee51%strong on work, weak on safety · range 43–59%

Student50%strong on education, weak on work · range 43–57%

Family43%strong on family, weak on cost · range 35–51%

Retirement48%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 38–58%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 596 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 9.93 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 Roye?

The unemployment rate is about 19.8 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 19.84 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁷

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Roye is 19.8%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Roye 19.8%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Gigabit broadband availability	94.2 %	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.³Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,579 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr¹⁸Official
Unemployment rate	19.84 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁷Official

What does a salary buy in Roye?

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

Left over each month€1,308of €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€9.93/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €596
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	€1,308

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

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Roye. 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

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	6 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)⁹Official
Schools	10 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)⁹Official

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; Roye's school authority applies it locally.

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

Safety

How safe is Roye?

Police recorded about 6,668 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)¹

Recorded crime across major citiesRoye 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

Roye6,668

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	6,668 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)¹Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Nearest airport	BYF	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁵Official
Distance to nearest airport	31 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁵Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Roye?

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 data²

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

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

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 Roye 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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Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	EEA Air Quality Annual Statistics — validated PM2.5 station data²Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 14.03 · Feb 17.14 · Mar 21.38 · Apr 26.09 · May 29.51 · Jun 32.62 · Jul 37.24 · Aug 34.55 · Sep 31.15 · Oct 26.9 · Nov 19.45 · Dec 14.76 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -12.12 · Feb -12.28 · Mar -11.85 · Apr -4.55 · May -0.14 · Jun 2.59 · Jul 6.75 · Aug 6.41 · Sep 2.76 · Oct -3.93 · Nov -4.76 · Dec -7.22 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 2.88 · Feb 3.41 · Mar 6.29 · Apr 9.82 · May 13.2 · Jun 16.56 · Jul 18.43 · Aug 18.07 · Sep 15 · Oct 11.26 · Nov 6.74 · Dec 3.45 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official

Population and city profile

The city covered 15.6 km² in 2026. Population density was 375.1 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Roye?

The published population was 5,833 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁶

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport98.6%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	15.55 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁶Official
Foreign residents	81 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹²Official
Population density	375.1 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁶Official
Population	5,833 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁶Official

International community in Roye

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	5,833	100.0%
Français	5,669.594	97.2%
Etranger	163.406	2.8%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁸

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)¹⁰Official

Alternatives for people set on Roye

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 Roye alternative in the same country

95 km away, 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 5,833 Roye+805%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 19.8% Roye−47%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,579 Roye+29%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 6,668 Roye−31%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €9.93/m² Royeno percentage
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 31.0 km Roye−42%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Roye

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

Montdidier 16.9 km away

Rent: 9.55 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Noyon 20.0 km away

Rent: 11.04 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities

Kembs5,834 residents Cessy5,832 residents Arradon5,835 residents Garéoult5,835 residents Villabé5,830 residents Dol-de-Bretagne5,829 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Roye 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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Common questions

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

How many people live in Roye?

The published population was 5,833 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Roye?

Average net cold rent is 9.93 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 695 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Roye?

How safe is Roye?

What is the unemployment rate in Roye?

The unemployment rate is about 19.8 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Roye?

The median gross salary is 2,579 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Roye a good place to live?

Roye 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 Roye?

Montdidier, Noyon, Ham are near Roye. 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 Roye?

The official citizenship distribution records 5,669.594 people (97.2%) 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Roye, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 8d2e102c543c1673354dd4c814bcf432]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/roye/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Roye, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living, jobs},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {8d2e102c543c1673354dd4c814bcf432},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/roye/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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