Living in Saint-Flour

In Saint-Flour, advertised rents for new lettings average €7.93 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 9.3% (2022).

Annual PM10 was 6.71 µg/m³ in 2024. Saint-Flour is in France; its population was 6,391 at the start of 2023. The foreign population count was 126 in 2021. The city had 15 schools in 2026. There were 125.2 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual PM2.5 was 3.63 µg/m³ in 2024. The unemployment rate was 9.33% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2423 sources

Population6,391people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,749EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent7.93EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 32% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate9.33%country median 11.0% — 15% belowOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime3,020incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 36% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean3.63µg/m³country median 8.5 — 57% 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 91% of French cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 65% of French cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 87% of French cities that publish it.

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

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Housing and cost

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

Average net cold rent is 7.93 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): 7.93 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr²²

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesSaint-Flour highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Saint-Flour€7.93

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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 Fibre¹⁸Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁷Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	645.9 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Dwellings	4,080 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Main residence dwellings	3,220 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.93 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr²²Official

Is Saint-Flour a good place to live?

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Remote worker60%strong on work, weak on safety · range 52–68%

Skilled employee63%strong on work, weak on safety · range 55–71%

Student63%strong on education, weak on work · range 56–70%

Family60%strong on family, weak on cost · range 53–67%

Retirement67%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 58–76%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 476 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.93 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 Saint-Flour?

The unemployment rate is about 9.3 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 9.33 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹⁰

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Saint-Flour is 9.3%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Saint-Flour 9.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	97.37 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)²Official
Gigabit broadband availability	97.37 %	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.⁵Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,749 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²³Official
Unemployment rate	9.33 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹⁰Official

What does a salary buy in Saint-Flour?

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

Left over each month€1,543of €2,082 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.	€2,082
Rent, 60 m²€7.93/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €476
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	€1,543

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Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	15 schools	27 May 2026	RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.²⁰Official · commune
Primary schools	5 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹²Official
Schools	17 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹²Official

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-Flour's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents	125.2 per 100,000 people	31 Dec 2024	INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence⁸Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	1,614 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011⁴Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Saint-Flour 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 residents1,614 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Saint-Flour?

Police recorded about 3,020 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 citiesSaint-Flour 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-Flour3,020

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	3,020 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)³Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁶Official
Nearest airport	LPY	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official
Distance to nearest airport	53 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Saint-Flour?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 3.6 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline.

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

PM2.5 — annual mean: 3.63 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

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.53.6WHO 5 · EU 25

PM106.7WHO 15 · EU 40

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-Flour is 3.6 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-Flour 3.6

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM10 — annual mean	6.71 µg/m³country median 14.2	2024	2024 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 mean	3.63 µg/m³country median 8.5	2024	2024 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 temperature	Jan 12.56 · Feb 17.86 · Mar 18.51 · Apr 22.07 · May 25.5 · Jun 34.76 · Jul 35.29 · Aug 36.38 · Sep 30.37 · Oct 25.59 · Nov 19.19 · Dec 13.66 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -14.64 · Feb -17.6 · Mar -16.31 · Apr -6.92 · May -2.1 · Jun 0.59 · Jul 3.96 · Aug 4.81 · Sep -1.71 · Oct -7.7 · Nov -10.69 · Dec -14.45 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Average temperature by month	Jan -0.1 · Feb 0.1 · Mar 3.43 · Apr 6.94 · May 10.61 · Jun 15.12 · Jul 17.42 · Aug 17.24 · Sep 13.2 · Oct 9.34 · Nov 4.16 · Dec 0.74 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official

Annual PM2.5 over time5 published observations, 2020–2024

3.5

4.0

4.6

5.1

3.6202020222024

Annual PM2.5 fell 9.3% between 2020 and 2024, from 4.0 to 3.6.

Population and city profile

The city covered 27.1 km² in 2026. Population density was 235.5 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Saint-Flour?

The published population was 6,391 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁹

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport98%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	27.14 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²¹Official
Foreign residents	126 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁵Official
Population density	235.5 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²¹Official
Population	6,391 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁹Official

International community in Saint-Flour

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	6,391	100.0%
Français	6,121.969	95.8%
Etranger	269.031	4.2%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹¹

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)¹³Official

Alternatives for people set on Saint-Flour

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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-Flour?

The published population was 6,391 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

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

Average net cold rent is 7.93 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 555 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Saint-Flour?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 3.6 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. 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 Saint-Flour?

What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Flour?

The unemployment rate is about 9.3 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Saint-Flour?

The median gross salary is 2,749 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Saint-Flour a good place to live?

Saint-Flour 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.

How many people are in the Français citizenship group in Saint-Flour?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,121.969 people (95.8%) 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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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Saint-Flour, France: population, rent, salary, jobs, safety},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {fc43a5bf4cf39131a5ca297fb297f490},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/saint-flour/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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