Living in Saint-Mihiel

In Saint-Mihiel, unemployment is 16.4% (2022).

Saint-Mihiel had a population of 3,806 at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-10-0719 sources

Population3,806people31 Dec 2024Official source · Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)

Average gross salary2,982EUR/month31 Dec 2022District figureOfficial source · Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département

Unemployment rate16.43%country median 11.0% — 50% aboveOfficial source · www.insee.fr

Recorded crime5,302incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 12% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean8µg/m³31 Dec 2024Official source · air.discomap.eea.europa.eu

Higher unemployment than 86% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 63% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Saint-Mihiel.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

The dwelling count was 2,219 at the end of 2023.

No city-level rent figure is published for Saint-Mihiel. The available city-level cost figures remain below.

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesSaint-Mihiel highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulon€14.43

Toulouse€13.98

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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 Fibre¹⁴Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹³Official · national market
Dwellings	2,219 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Main residence dwellings	1,723 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official

Is Saint-Mihiel a good place to live?

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Remote worker49%strong on work, weak on housing · range 39–59%

Skilled employee50%strong on work, weak on housing · range 42–58%

Student48%strong on cost, weak on housing · range 40–56%

Family41%strong on family, weak on housing · range 33–49%

Retirement49%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 38–60%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Mihiel?

The unemployment rate is about 16.4 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 16.43 % · www.insee.fr¹⁷

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Saint-Mihiel is 16.4%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Saint-Mihiel 16.4%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	2,982 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	Les salaires bruts dans le secteur privé en 2022 – T401B: Salaire brut en équivalent temps plein, par catégorie socioprofessionnelle agrégée, région et département⁸Official · county
Fibre-to-the-building availability	94.5 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)²Official
Gigabit broadband availability	94.5 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)²Official
Unemployment rate	16.43 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr¹⁷Official

Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	3 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)⁹Official
Schools	4 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; Saint-Mihiel's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

The availability of hospital beds in Saint-Mihiel was 187.8 beds per 100,000 residents at the end of 2011.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	187.8 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-Mihiel 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 residents187.8 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Saint-Mihiel?

Police recorded about 5,302 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-Mihiel 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-Mihiel5,302

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	5,302 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

Saint-Mihiel's nearest airport was ETZ, 52 km away and offered 5 direct destinations. Saint-Mihiel's fibre-to-home broadband coverage was 94.5%.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	5 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹²Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	52 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁵Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	ETZ	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁵Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Saint-Mihiel's monthly mean temperatures were 1°C in January and 19.1°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Saint-Mihiel?

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: air.discomap.eea.europa.eu¹

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 Saint-Mihiel 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/m³	31 Dec 2024	air.discomap.eea.europa.eu¹Official source, approximated value · Supplemental context
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.94 · Feb 17.27 · Mar 20.01 · Apr 25.12 · May 28.23 · Jun 33.96 · Jul 39.76 · Aug 38.84 · Sep 33.84 · Oct 25.53 · Nov 19.51 · Dec 14.02 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -14.25 · Feb -16.96 · Mar -12.17 · Apr -5.41 · May -0.53 · Jun 3.4 · Jul 6.61 · Aug 6.07 · Sep 1.75 · Oct -4.78 · Nov -7.09 · Dec -15.95 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan 1.01 · Feb 1.73 · Mar 5.07 · Apr 9.24 · May 13.18 · Jun 16.98 · Jul 19.14 · Aug 18.68 · Sep 14.76 · Oct 10.31 · Nov 5.38 · Dec 1.88 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Saint-Mihiel?

The published population was 3,806 people in January 2024. Source: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)⁶

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	3,806 people	31 Dec 2024	Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)⁶Official

Population over time10 published observations, 1968–2024

3,665

4,348

5,030

5,713

3,80619681982199920122024

Population fell 28.1% between 1968 and 2024, from 5,295 to 3,806.

International community in Saint-Mihiel

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	3,772	100.0%
Français	3,480	92.3%
Etranger	292	7.7%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁷

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 Saint-Mihiel

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Cities near Saint-Mihiel

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

Commercy 14.4 km away

Rent: 6.93 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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All France cities

Ligny-en-Barrois3,798 residents Saint-Tropez3,649 residents La Bresse3,974 residents Saint-Valery-en-Caux3,997 residents Gourin4,113 residents Leffrinckoucke4,173 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-Mihiel?

The published population was 3,806 people in January 2024. Source: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE).

Is the air quality good in Saint-Mihiel?

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: air.discomap.eea.europa.eu.

How safe is Saint-Mihiel?

What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Mihiel?

The unemployment rate is about 16.4 % (2022). Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Saint-Mihiel a good place to live?

Saint-Mihiel 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-Mihiel?

Commercy is near Saint-Mihiel. 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-Mihiel?

The official citizenship distribution records 3,480 people (92.3%) 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-Mihiel, France: population, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 812e94fa80d5046e8a17f91b05a09333]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/saint-mihiel/ 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-mihiel-france-population-salary-cost-of-living_b10dc40f3c57,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Saint-Mihiel, France: population, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {812e94fa80d5046e8a17f91b05a09333},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/saint-mihiel/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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