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Living in Verdun

In Verdun, advertised rents for new lettings average €7.98 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 17.6% (2022).

Verdun is a city in France, with a population of 16,890 at the start of 2023. There were 59.2 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. The unemployment rate was 17.6% at the end of 2022. The foreign population count was 840 in 2021. The city had 20 schools in 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2424 sources

Population16,890people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,641EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent7.98EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 31% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate17.63%country median 11.0% — 61% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime8,791incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 85% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean7.69µg/m³country median 8.5 — 9% 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, higher unemployment than 89% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 96% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Verdun.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Verdun?

Average net cold rent is 7.98 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): 7.98 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr23
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Verdun recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43
Mobile plan, 10 GB€20
Net rent across major citiesVerdun highlighted among comparable cities
Net rent across major cities with Verdun highlighted

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Verdun€7.98
Show the other 6 cities
Bordeaux€15.99
Lille€15.76
Strasbourg€15.57
Montpellier€15.49
Rennes€14.87
Nantes€14.50
MetricValuePeriodSource
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited42.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange Livebox Fibre19Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan18Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)1,216 %31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Dwellings10,318 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Main residence dwellings8,882 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)7.98 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr23Official

Is Verdun 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 worker48%strong on work, weak on safety · range 40–56%
Skilled employee57%strong on work, weak on safety · range 49–65%
Student57%strong on education, weak on safety · range 50–64%
Family48%strong on family, weak on cost · range 41–55%
Retirement47%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 38–56%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 479 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.98 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 Verdun?

The unemployment rate is about 17.6 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 17.63 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Verdun is 17.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Gigabit broadband availability97.32 %31 Mar 2026Independent 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)2,641 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr24Official
Unemployment rate17.63 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official

What does a salary buy in Verdun?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,641 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,466of €2,008 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.€2,008
Rent, 60 m²€7.98/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €479
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€1,466
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Verdun Salary needed to live in Verdun

Public employment service

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

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools20 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.21Official · commune
Primary schools9 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools24 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official

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; Verdun's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents59.21 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence8Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents1,716 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20113Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Verdun 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 residents1,716 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Verdun?

Police recorded about 8,791 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 citiesVerdun highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Verdun highlighted

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Lille13,488
Lyon13,026
Bordeaux12,429
Marseille11,857
Paris10,987
Montpellier9,636
Toulouse8,875
Verdun8,791
Rennes8,241
Strasbourg7,791
Nantes7,704
Nice7,577
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents8,791 incidents per 100,000country median 4,74031 Dec 2025Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)2Official

Mobility and administration

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport5 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights17Official
Nearest airportETZ3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official
Distance to nearest airport66 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 7.69 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 16 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Verdun?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.7 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: 7.69 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

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 Verdun is 7.7 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

MetricValuePeriodSource
NO₂ — annual mean16.04 µg/m³country median 14.820242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official
NO₂ — latest reading14.7 µg/m³15 Jul 2026Latest 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.12Official
PM2.5 — annual mean7.69 µg/m³country median 8.520242024 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 temperatureJan 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 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -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 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average temperature by monthJan 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 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Annual PM2.5 over time11 published observations, 2014–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 45.1% between 2014 and 2024, from 14.0 to 7.7.

Population and city profile

The city covered 31 km² in 2026. Population density was 544.3 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Verdun?

The published population was 16,890 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area31.03 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Foreign residents840 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official
Population density544.3 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Population16,890 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9Official

International community in Verdun

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 groupPeopleShare
Total16,890100.0%
Français15,926.86894.3%
Etranger963.1325.7%

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

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)14Official

Alternatives for people set on Verdun

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 Verdun alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 235 km, better on 4 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 16,890 Verdun+212%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 8,791 Verdun−48%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 17.6% Verdun−41%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,641 Verdun+26%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €7.98/m² Verdunno percentage
  • Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 66.0 km Verdun−73%
  • Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 7.7 µg/m³ Verdun+26%
Full comparisonMore about Sartrouville

Alternative cities in France

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All France cities
La Baule-Escoublac16,912 residentsGuérande16,804 residentsLes Clayes-sous-Bois16,804 residentsLe Pré-Saint-Gervais16,993 residentsSaint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle16,768 residentsLoire-Authion16,765 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 Verdun?

The published population was 16,890 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Verdun?

Average net cold rent is 7.98 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 559 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Verdun?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 7.7 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 Verdun?

Police recorded about 8,791 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).

What is the unemployment rate in Verdun?

The unemployment rate is about 17.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Verdun?

The median gross salary is 2,641 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Verdun a good place to live?

Verdun 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 Verdun?

The official citizenship distribution records 15,926.868 people (94.3%) 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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  title = {Verdun, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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