Living in Ino-cho

In Ino-cho, rents across existing tenancies average €5.50 per m² a month (2023).

The median age was 59.3 years in 2026. The foreign population count was 45 in 2024. The city had 26 schools in May 2024. 吾川郡いの町 had a population of 21,374 in October 2020. The unemployment rate was 3.6% in October 2020.

Last checked 2026-10-1526 sources

Population21,374people1 Oct 2020Official source · Japan 2020 Census municipality population table

Median gross salary (region)250.3EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average net rent5.5EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27 — 12% belowOfficial source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Unemployment rate3.6%country median 3.8% — 4% belowOfficial source · Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality

Recorded crime364.9incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Official source · 令和7年刑法犯の概況 — 市町村別刑法犯認知件数

PM2.5, annual mean7µg/m³country median 8.4 — 17% belowOfficial source · tenbou.nies.go.jp

Cheaper rent than 67% of Japanese cities that publish it and cleaner air than 85% of Japanese cities that publish it.

Which Japan-wide rules apply when you move to Ino-cho?

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 JapanNational rates and thresholds that apply in Ino-cho.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

Japan's Housing and Land Survey monthly-rent measure excludes security deposits, key money/right money and common-area charges. The Ministry of Land says deposit terms vary by regional custom; these sources provide context, not a comparable city-level distribution. Statistics Bureau glossary (2018) · MLIT rental-housing Q&A.

How much does it cost to rent in 吾川郡いの町?

Average net cold rent is about 5.5 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), 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): 5.5 EUR/m²/month · www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€32

Mobile plan, 10 GB€22

Net rent across major citiesIno-cho highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Osaka€10.65

Kyoto€10.46

Sapporo€7.56

Ino-cho€5.50

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Saitama€10.37

Fukuoka€9.00

Kobe€8.87

Sendai€8.85

Nagoya€8.81

Hiroshima€8.38

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	31.61 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	ドコモ光月額料金 — NTTドコモ¹⁷Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	21.56 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	docomo mini 10GB²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	5.5 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27	31 Dec 2023	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵Official

Is Ino-cho 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 worker56%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 48–64%

Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on safety · range 57–73%

Student62%strong on education, weak on work · range 55–69%

Family71%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 64–78%

Retirement61%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 52–70%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 330 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 5.5 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: 2023 Housing and Land Survey

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in 吾川郡いの町?

The unemployment rate is 3.6 % (October 2020). Source: Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality⁷

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Ino-cho is 3.6%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Ino-cho 3.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	250.3 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁶Official
Unemployment rate	3.6 %country median 3.8%	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality⁷Official

What does a salary buy in Ino-cho?

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

Left over each month€0of €0 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile

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; euro amounts at the ECB average for 2026-08.	outside the model's range
Rent, 60 m²€5.50/m² · official · e-stat.go.jp · 2023-12-31	− €330
Internet€32 · official · ドコモ光月額料金 · 2026-09-30	− €32
Mobile plan€22 · official · docomo mini 10GB · 2026-09-30	− €22
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	—

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

Public employment service

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

Country-level information

Hello Work — Public employment service

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

Job Search

Search jobs

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	26 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127¹¹Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 1,000 residents	12.13 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁹Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	1.61 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024¹⁰Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	153.5 per 100,000	2022	Exact e-Stat municipality row I6100 (医師数), derived with the exact same-JIS e-Stat A2301 total resident population row. No prefecture or parent-area value is used.⁶Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Ino-cho 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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Physicians per 1,000 residents1.61 per 1,000Verified 2026-08-31

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is 吾川郡いの町?

Police recorded about 365 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source.

Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents: 364.9 incidents per 100,000 · 令和7年刑法犯の概況 — 市町村別刑法犯認知件数¹⁸

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	364.9 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	令和7年刑法犯の概況 — 市町村別刑法犯認知件数¹⁸Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	7 count	2024	Unique direct scheduled destination endpoints for the nearest scheduled-service airport in the complete 97-airport MLIT universe; domestic endpoints come from the official 2024 annual route table and international endpoints from the official 2024 summer and winter direct scheduled-flight tables.¹³Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Ino-cho. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Japanese Language Education Program for Foreigners Living in Japan — State Language Course

Agency for Cultural Affairs

For foreigners living in Japan.

JapaneseIn Person, Online

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Ino-cho.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in 吾川郡いの町?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7 µg/m³ (2023) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: tenbou.nies.go.jp¹²

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

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

108

175

225

280

360

357

284

398

208

130

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Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

191

177

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197

196

134

174

204

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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

PM2.57WHO 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 JapanAnnual PM2.5 in Ino-cho is 7.0 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Ino-cho 7.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	7 µg/m³country median 8.4	31 Dec 2023	tenbou.nies.go.jp¹²Official
Average daytime high by month	Jan 12.2 · Feb 13.2 · Mar 16.3 · Apr 20.9 · May 24.8 · Jun 27.1 · Jul 30.8 · Aug 32.1 · Sep 29.5 · Oct 25 · Nov 19.6 · Dec 14.4 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station KOCHI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan 2.1 · Feb 3.1 · Mar 6.4 · Apr 10.9 · May 15.5 · Jun 19.7 · Jul 23.9 · Aug 24.5 · Sep 21.4 · Oct 15.6 · Nov 9.7 · Dec 4.2 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station KOCHI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 6.7 · Feb 7.8 · Mar 11.2 · Apr 15.8 · May 20 · Jun 23.1 · Jul 27 · Aug 27.9 · Sep 25 · Oct 19.9 · Nov 14.2 · Dec 8.8 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station KOCHI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 59.1 · Feb 107.8 · Mar 174.8 · Apr 225.3 · May 280.4 · Jun 359.5 · Jul 357.3 · Aug 284.1 · Sep 398.1 · Oct 207.5 · Nov 129.6 · Dec 83.1 mm	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station KOCHI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 190.7 · Feb 177.2 · Mar 192.2 · Apr 197.3 · May 195.7 · Jun 133.8 · Jul 173.7 · Aug 204 · Sep 162 · Oct 179.6 · Nov 168.8 · Dec 184.6 hours	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station KOCHI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Japan: Isahaya ±1.0 °C. Elsewhere: Carrollton (United States) ±2.0 °C, Lewisville (United States) ±2.0 °C, Little Rock (United States) ±2.2 °C, Oklahoma City (United States) ±2.9 °C, Round Rock (United States) ±3.1 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

The city covered 471 km² in 2024. Population density was 44.2 people per km² in 2024.

How many people live in 吾川郡いの町?

The published population was 21,374 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table⁸

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport99.8%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	471 km²	2024	Exact e-Stat municipality row B1101: 総面積（北方地域及び竹島を除く）, converted from ha to km2.⁵Official
Foreign residents	45 people	2024	Exact e-Stat municipality row A2201: 住民基本台帳人口（外国人）.⁴Official
Population density	44.2 people/km²	2024	Exact e-Stat municipality row B1101: 総面積（北方地域及び竹島を除く）, converted from ha to km2.⁵Official
Population	21,374 people	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census municipality population table⁸Official

International community in Ino-cho

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Persons in the official 2020 Population Census Basic Complete Tabulation on Population and Households; sex-total population by source-native nationality category. · 2020

Published group	People	Share
Total	21,374	100.0%
Japanese	21,214	99.3%
Nationality not reported	122	0.6%
Foreigner	38	0.2%
Others	14	0.1%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	10	0.0%
Republic of Korea	4	0.0%
United States of America	3	0.0%
Republic of the Philippines	2	0.0%
People's Republic of China	1	0.0%
Kingdom of Thailand	1	0.0%

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Published group	People	Share
Republic of Indonesia	1	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1	0.0%
Federative Republic of Brazil	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source³

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median age	59.3 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)¹Official

Alternatives for people set on Ino-cho

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.

Susaki as an Ino-cho alternative in the same region

21 km away, better on 1 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Rent: €4.00/m² Susaki vs €5.50/m² Ino-cho−27%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 553 Susaki vs 365 Ino-chono percentage
Median gross pay, region: €251 Susaki vs €250 Ino-chosame level

Full comparison More about Susaki

Nichinan as an Ino-cho alternative in the same country

Better on 1 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Rent: €3.97/m² Nichinan vs €5.50/m² Ino-cho−28%
Residents: 50,848 Nichinan vs 21,374 Ino-cho+138%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 457 Nichinan vs 365 Ino-chono percentage
Median gross pay, region: €247 Nichinan vs €250 Ino-chosame level

Full comparison More about Nichinan

Cities near Ino-cho

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

Tosa 5.9 km away

Rent: 4.15 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Kochi 9.8 km away

Rent: 6.42 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Nankoku 20.0 km away

Rent: 6 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Susaki 21.3 km away

Rent: 4 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Alternative cities in Japan

Other cities in Japan to compare with Ino-cho, nearest in population first.

All Japan cities

Ino21,374 residents Fukuchi-machi21,398 residents Matsuura21,271 residents Shinhidaka-cho21,517 residents Sugita21,224 residents Mombetsu21,215 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 吾川郡いの町?

The published population was 21,374 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table.

How much does it cost to rent in 吾川郡いの町?

Average net cold rent is about 5.5 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 385 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is the air quality good in 吾川郡いの町?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7 µg/m³ (2023) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: tenbou.nies.go.jp.

How safe is 吾川郡いの町?

Police recorded about 365 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: 令和7年刑法犯の概況 — 市町村別刑法犯認知件数.

What is the unemployment rate in 吾川郡いの町?

The unemployment rate is 3.6 % (October 2020). Source: Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality.

What is the typical salary around Ino-cho?

The median gross salary is 250.3 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is Ino-cho a good place to live?

Ino-cho 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 Ino-cho?

Tosa, Kochi, Sakawa-cho, Ochi, Nankoku are near Ino-cho. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people are in the Japanese citizenship group in Ino-cho?

The official citizenship distribution records 21,214 people (99.3%) in the source-defined population for 2020. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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Exact e-Stat municipality row B1101: 総面積（北方地域及び竹島を除く）, converted from ha to km2. e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-15
Exact e-Stat municipality row I6100 (医師数), derived with the exact same-JIS e-Stat A2301 total resident population row. No prefecture or parent-area value is used. e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-15
Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-16
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