Living in Saint-Claude

In Saint-Claude, advertised rents for new lettings average €7.67 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 14.5% (2022).

Saint-Claude is in France; its population was 8,386 at the start of 2023. Gigabit broadband availability was 90.4% in March 2026. The unemployment rate was 14.5% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2430 sources

Population8,386people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,580EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent7.67EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 34% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate14.54%country median 11.0% — 32% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime4,651incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 2% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean5µg/m³country median 8.5 — 41% belowOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 94% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 76% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than any other French city that publishes it.

Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Saint-Claude?

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

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Saint-Claude?

Average net cold rent is 7.67 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): 7.67 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr²⁰

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesSaint-Claude highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Saint-Claude€7.67

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 Fibre¹⁷Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁶Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	1,164 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Dwellings	5,642 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Main residence dwellings	4,193 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.67 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr²⁰Official

Is Saint-Claude 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%

Student61%strong on education, weak on work · range 54–68%

Family57%strong on family, weak on cost · range 50–64%

Retirement60%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 51–69%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 460 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.67 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 Saint-Claude?

The unemployment rate is about 14.5 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 14.54 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Saint-Claude is 14.5%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Saint-Claude 14.5%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Gigabit broadband availability	90.44 %	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.⁴Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,580 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²¹Official
Unemployment rate	14.54 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸Official

What does a salary buy in Saint-Claude?

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

Left over each month€1,444of €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€7.67/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €460
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	€1,444

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

Public employment service

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

Country-level information

France Travail — Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	14 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁰Official
Schools	25 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹⁰Official

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; Saint-Claude's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	1,087 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011²Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Saint-Claude 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 residents1,087 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Saint-Claude?

Police recorded about 4,651 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 citiesSaint-Claude 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

Saint-Claude4,651

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,651 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	NCY	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁸Official
Distance to nearest airport	54 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Saint-Claude.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Saint-Claude?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 5 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: European Environment Agency³

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

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

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Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

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118

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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

PM2.55WHO 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 Saint-Claude is 5.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Saint-Claude 5.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	5 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency³Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 11.89 · Feb 14.86 · Mar 18.76 · Apr 23.99 · May 26.96 · Jun 37.12 · Jul 35.95 · Aug 37.93 · Sep 30.71 · Oct 24.53 · Nov 18.22 · Dec 14.04 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹²Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -15.73 · Feb -17.57 · Mar -17.17 · Apr -5.82 · May -0.21 · Jun 2.53 · Jul 6.4 · Aug 5.66 · Sep 1.57 · Oct -5.75 · Nov -10.09 · Dec -14.96 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹²Official
Average temperature by month	Jan -0.01 · Feb 0.6 · Mar 4.56 · Apr 8.71 · May 12.5 · Jun 16.8 · Jul 18.84 · Aug 18.44 · Sep 14.46 · Oct 10.27 · Nov 4.76 · Dec 1.02 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹²Official
Average precipitation by month	Jan 167.9 · Feb 137.1 · Mar 144.5 · Apr 121.6 · May 148.9 · Jun 144.2 · Jul 148.1 · Aug 136.6 · Sep 145.9 · Oct 171.4 · Nov 171 · Dec 207.7 mm	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 110.8 · Feb 118 · Mar 153.9 · Apr 157.1 · May 166 · Jun 189.3 · Jul 210.6 · Aug 201 · Sep 162.1 · Oct 140.6 · Nov 103.3 · Dec 94.6 hours	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading

Annual PM2.5 over time12 published observations, 2013–2024

4.1

8.4

12.6

16.9

5.020132015201720212024

Annual PM2.5 fell 68.8% between 2013 and 2024, from 16.0 to 5.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Saint-Claude?

The published population was 8,386 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport84.2%
Foreign residents15.8%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	70.19 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁹Official
Foreign residents	1,322 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹³Official
Population density	119.5 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁹Official
Population	8,386 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷Official

International community in Saint-Claude

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	8,386	100.0%
Français	7,124	85.0%
Etranger	1,262	15.0%

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

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)¹¹Official

Alternatives for people set on Saint-Claude

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.

Saint-Genis-Pouilly as a Saint-Claude alternative in the same region

20 km away, better on 4 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Unemployment: 10.1% Saint-Genis-Pouilly vs 14.5% Saint-Claude−30%
Rent: €22.55/m² Saint-Genis-Pouilly vs €7.67/m² Saint-Claudeno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,636 Saint-Genis-Pouilly vs 4,651 Saint-Claude−22%
Residents: 14,432 Saint-Genis-Pouilly vs 8,386 Saint-Claude+72%
Nearest airport: 35.0 km Saint-Genis-Pouilly vs 54.0 km Saint-Claude−35%
Median gross pay, region: €2,749 Saint-Genis-Pouilly vs €2,580 Saint-Claude+7%

Full comparison More about Saint-Genis-Pouilly

Sartrouville as a Saint-Claude alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 397 km, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 8,386 Saint-Claude+529%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,580 Saint-Claude+29%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €7.67/m² Saint-Claudeno percentage
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 14.5% Saint-Claude−28%
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 54.0 km Saint-Claude−67%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,651 Saint-Claudesame level

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Saint-Claude

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

Gex 16.1 km away

Rent: 19.88 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Cessy 17.6 km away

Rent: 19.48 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Thoiry 19.0 km away

Rent: 23.67 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30

Saint-Genis-Pouilly 20.1 km away

Rent: 22.55 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30

Ornex 21.6 km away

Rent: 22.99 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30

Oyonnax 21.7 km away

Rent: 10.67 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Divonne-les-Bains 21.7 km away

Rent: 26.55 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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Orchies8,396 residents Trignac8,397 residents Feurs8,367 residents Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche8,359 residents Marseillan8,414 residents Larmor-Plage8,418 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 Saint-Claude?

The published population was 8,386 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Saint-Claude?

Average net cold rent is 7.67 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 537 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Saint-Claude?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 5 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Saint-Claude?

What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Claude?

The unemployment rate is about 14.5 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Saint-Claude?

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

Is Saint-Claude a good place to live?

Saint-Claude 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 Saint-Claude?

Valfin-lès-Saint-Claude, Gex, Cessy, Thoiry, Saint-Genis-Pouilly are near Saint-Claude. 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 Saint-Claude?

The official citizenship distribution records 7,124 people (85.0%) 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Saint-Claude, France: population, rent, salary, jobs, safety [ImmigrationDB compilation; version fb39c2c38742675238343c976f2e64ee]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/saint-claude/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_saint-claude-france-population-rent-salary-jobs-safety_50edaf430ed0,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Saint-Claude, France: population, rent, salary, jobs, safety},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {fb39c2c38742675238343c976f2e64ee},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/saint-claude/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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