Living in Saint-Rémy

In Saint-Rémy, rents across existing tenancies average €8.90 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 9.6% (2022).

The foreign population count was 240 in 2021. Annual NO₂ was 13.9 µg/m³ in 2024. At the start of 2023, Saint-Rémy had a population of 6,410. The city covered 10.4 km² in 2026. Population density was 617.5 people per km² in 2023. The city had 6 schools in 2026. There were 93.6 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual PM2.5 was 7.88 µg/m³ in 2024. The unemployment rate was 9.6% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2428 sources

Population6,410people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

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

Average net rent8.9EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 23% belowOfficial source · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org

Unemployment rate9.6%country median 11.0% — 12% belowOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime4,474incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 6% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean7.88µg/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 85% of French cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 63% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than 69% of French cities that publish it.

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

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-Rémy?

Average net cold rent is 8.9 EUR/m² per month (2025), 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): 8.9 EUR/m²/month · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org²³

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesSaint-Rémy highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Saint-Rémy€8.90

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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 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)	140 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁴Official
Dwellings	3,041 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Main residence dwellings	2,867 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	8.9 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	www.observatoires-des-loyers.org²³Official

Is Saint-Rémy 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 worker52%strong on work, weak on safety · range 44–60%

Skilled employee61%strong on work, weak on safety · range 53–69%

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

Family56%strong on family, weak on cost · range 49–63%

Retirement53%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 44–62%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 534 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 8.9 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

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Rémy?

The unemployment rate is about 9.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Saint-Rémy is 9.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Saint-Rémy 9.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Gigabit broadband availability	98.79 %	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)	2,580 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²²Official
Unemployment rate	9.6 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸Official

What does a salary buy in Saint-Rémy?

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

Left over each month€1,370of €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€8.90/m² · official · observatoires-des-loyers.org · 2025-12-31	− €534
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	€1,370

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

Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	6 schools	27 May 2026	RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.¹⁹Official · commune
Primary schools	12 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹¹Official
Schools	16 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹¹Official

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-Rémy'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	93.6 per 100,000 people	31 Dec 2024	INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence⁶Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Saint-Rémy 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 Saint-Rémy?

Police recorded about 4,474 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)²

Recorded crime across major citiesSaint-Rémy 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-Rémy4,474

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,474 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)²Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	3 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁵Official
Nearest airport	DLE	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-Rémy. 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-Rémy.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Saint-Rémy?

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: 7.88 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

PM2.57.9WHO 5 · EU 25

PM1012.7WHO 15 · EU 40

NO₂13.9WHO 10 · 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-Rémy is 7.9 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-Rémy 7.9

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
NO₂ — annual mean	13.87 µg/m³country median 14.8	2024	2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹Official
NO₂ — latest reading	15.1 µg/m³	15 Jul 2026	Latest 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.¹⁰Official
PM10 — annual mean	12.65 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	7.88 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 14.41 · Feb 15.98 · Mar 21.42 · Apr 25.29 · May 28.89 · Jun 36.52 · Jul 39.41 · Aug 39.74 · Sep 33.21 · Oct 27.93 · Nov 20.14 · Dec 14.81 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -12.18 · Feb -14.91 · Mar -13.22 · Apr -5.36 · May 0.98 · Jun 3.22 · Jul 7.65 · Aug 6.97 · Sep 2.49 · Oct -4.82 · Nov -6.58 · Dec -13.29 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 1.52 · Feb 2.33 · Mar 6.05 · Apr 10.12 · May 14.01 · Jun 18.3 · Jul 20.27 · Aug 19.74 · Sep 15.69 · Oct 11.36 · Nov 5.89 · Dec 2.36 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official

Annual PM2.5 over time11 published observations, 2013–2024

7.2

10.7

14.2

17.7

7.9201320162018202020222024

Annual PM2.5 fell 53.6% between 2013 and 2024, from 17.0 to 7.9.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Saint-Rémy?

The published population was 6,410 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport96.3%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	10.38 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²⁰Official
Foreign residents	240 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁴Official
Population density	617.5 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²⁰Official
Population	6,410 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷Official

International community in Saint-Rémy

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	6,410	100.0%
Français	6,186	96.5%
Etranger	224	3.5%

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)¹²Official

Alternatives for people set on Saint-Rémy

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-Marcel as a Saint-Rémy alternative in the same region

4 km away, better on 2 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

Nearest airport: 19.0 km Saint-Marcel vs 54.0 km Saint-Rémy−65%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,096 Saint-Marcel vs 4,474 Saint-Rémy−8%
Unemployment: 10.0% Saint-Marcel vs 9.6% Saint-Rémy+4%
Residents: 6,211 Saint-Marcel vs 6,410 Saint-Rémy−3%
Rent: €8.90/m² Saint-Marcel vs €8.90/m² Saint-Rémysame level
Median gross pay, region: €2,580 Saint-Marcel vs €2,580 Saint-Rémysame level
Annual PM2.5: 7.9 µg/m³ Saint-Marcel vs 7.9 µg/m³ Saint-Rémysame level

Full comparison More about Saint-Marcel

Sartrouville as a Saint-Rémy alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 314 km, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 6,410 Saint-Rémy+723%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,580 Saint-Rémy+29%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €8.90/m² Saint-Rémyno percentage
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 54.0 km Saint-Rémy−67%
Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 7.9 µg/m³ Saint-Rémy+23%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 9.6% Saint-Rémy+9%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,474 Saint-Rémysame level

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Saint-Rémy

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

Chalon-sur-Saône 2.3 km away

Rent: 8.9 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Châtenoy-le-Royal 3.8 km away

Rent: 8.9 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Saint-Marcel 4.2 km away

Rent: 8.9 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Chagny 17.6 km away

Rent: 9.75 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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Combourg6,411 residents Embrun6,412 residents Mûrs-Erigné6,408 residents Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien6,419 residents La Tronche6,424 residents Courthézon6,426 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-Rémy?

The published population was 6,410 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

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

Average net cold rent is 8.9 EUR/m² per month (2025), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 623 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.observatoires-des-loyers.org.

Is the air quality good in Saint-Rémy?

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 Saint-Rémy?

What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Rémy?

The unemployment rate is about 9.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Saint-Rémy?

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

Is Saint-Rémy a good place to live?

Saint-Rémy 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-Rémy?

Chalon-sur-Saône, Châtenoy-le-Royal, Saint-Marcel, Chagny are near Saint-Rémy. 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-Rémy?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,186 people (96.5%) 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 = {Saint-Rémy, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {e96a1fea971c8ed3a0b353cfc46b2288},
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  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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