Living in Chikusei

In Chikusei, rents across existing tenancies average €6.05 per m² a month (2023).

An unemployment rate of 4.46% was measured at the end of 2020.

Last checked 2026-09-2424 sources

Population98,933people1 Jan 2026Official source · Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total

Median gross salary (region)264.5EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average net rent6.05EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27 — 4% belowOfficial source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Unemployment rate4.46%country median 3.8% — 18% aboveOfficial source · 総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表)

Recorded crime786.1incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Official source · JP-08-Ibaraki-2025

PM2.5, annual mean11.6µg/m³country median 8.4 — 38% aboveOfficial source · MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 筑西市

Higher unemployment than 79% of Japanese cities that publish it and dirtier air than 98% of Japanese cities that publish it.

Which Japan-wide rules apply when you move to Chikusei?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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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 Chikusei?

Average net cold rent is about 6.05 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): 6.05 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 citiesChikusei highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Osaka€10.65

Kyoto€10.46

Sapporo€7.56

Chikusei€6.05

Show the other 6 cities

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 10GB³Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate	13.79 %	31 Oct 2023	2023 Housing and Land Survey, Table 1-2: Housing by occupancy status¹Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	6.05 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27	31 Dec 2023	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵Official
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	275.5 EUR/month	31 Oct 2023	Housing and Land Survey 2023, Table 112-3-2: Monthly Rent of Dwelling by Type of Dwelling — Japan, prefecture, shi, ku, machi and mura⁵Official

Is Chikusei 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 worker53%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 45–61%

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

Student64%strong on education, weak on work · range 57–71%

Family68%strong on family, weak on legal route · range 61–75%

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

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 363 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 6.05 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 Chikusei?

The unemployment rate is about 4.5 % (October 2020).

Unemployment rate: 4.46 % · 総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表)²²

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Chikusei is 4.5%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Chikusei 4.5%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	264.5 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁶Official
Unemployment rate	4.46 %country median 3.8%	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表)²²Official

What does a salary buy in Chikusei?

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€6.05/m² · official · e-stat.go.jp · 2023-12-31	− €363
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	—

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Chikusei. 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

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	30 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127⁹Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
GP practices	32 count	1 Jun 2026	医療情報ネット clinics facility and specialty CSV 2026-06-01¹⁸Official
Hospital beds per 1,000 residents	11.24 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁶Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	1,124 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁶Official
Hospitals	5 count	1 Jun 2026	医療情報ネット hospitals facility CSV¹⁹Official
Pharmacies	50 count	1 Jun 2026	医療情報ネット pharmacies CSV²⁰Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	1.43 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	143 per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Chikusei 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 residents1,124 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-09-16

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Chikusei?

Police recorded about 786 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: 786.1 incidents per 100,000 · JP-08-Ibaraki-2025⁸

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Burglaries per 100,000 residents	102.2 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	JP-08-Ibaraki-2025⁸Official
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	786.1 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	JP-08-Ibaraki-2025⁸Official

Mobility and administration

Chikusei's nearest airport was IBR, 42 km away and offered 5 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	5 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹¹Official
Destinations from nearest airport	5 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.¹⁴Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	42 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	IBR	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Chikusei?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 11.6 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 筑西市¹⁰

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

PM2.511.6WHO 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 Chikusei is 11.6 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Chikusei 11.6

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	11.6 µg/m³country median 8.4	31 Mar 2024	MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 筑西市¹⁰Official

Population and city profile

Chikusei's population density measured 490.8 people per km² at the end of 2020.

How many people live in Chikusei?

The published population was 98,933 people in 2026. Source: Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total¹³

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport95.2%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	205.3 km²	3 Aug 2026	国土地理院 (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)²¹Official
Foreign-resident share	4.84 %	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民 ÷ 総計)²⁴Official
Foreign residents	4,791 people	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民)²⁴Official
Population density	490.8 people/km²	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 第1-1表)²³Official
Population	98,933 people	1 Jan 2026	Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total¹³Official

International community in Chikusei

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	100,753	100.0%
Japanese	97,857	97.1%
Foreigner	2,371	2.4%
Nationality not reported	525	0.5%
Others	490	0.5%
Republic of the Philippines	466	0.5%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	459	0.5%
Kingdom of Thailand	329	0.3%
Federative Republic of Brazil	196	0.2%
People's Republic of China	190	0.2%
Republic of Korea	90	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Republic of Peru	66	0.1%
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	28	0.0%
India	27	0.0%
Republic of Indonesia	23	0.0%
United States of America	5	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁴

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median age	52.4 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)²Official

Alternatives for people set on Chikusei

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.

Kanoya as a Chikusei alternative in the same country

Better on 5 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Hospital beds, per 100k: 2,344.1 Kanoya vs 1,124.5 Chikusei+108%
Rent: €4.45/m² Kanoya vs €6.05/m² Chikusei−26%
Foreign residents: 1.5% Kanoya vs 4.8% Chikusei−69%
Empty flats: 19.3% Kanoya vs 13.8% Chikusei+40%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 551 Kanoya vs 786 Chikuseino percentage
Unemployment: 3.8% Kanoya vs 4.5% Chikusei−15%
Annual PM2.5: 8.8 µg/m³ Kanoya vs 11.6 µg/m³ Chikusei−24%

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Alternative cities in Japan

Other cities in Japan to compare with Chikusei, nearest in population first.

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Shimodate98,933 residents Isehara99,052 residents Kōnan98,729 residents Sakura-ku (Saitama)98,661 residents Kanoya98,626 residents Sakado99,346 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 Chikusei?

The published population was 98,933 people in 2026. Source: Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total.

How much does it cost to rent in Chikusei?

Average net cold rent is about 6.05 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 423 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is the air quality good in Chikusei?

How safe is Chikusei?

Police recorded about 786 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: JP-08-Ibaraki-2025.

What is the unemployment rate in Chikusei?

The unemployment rate is about 4.5 % (October 2020). Source: 総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表).

What is the typical salary around Chikusei?

The median gross salary is 264.5 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is Chikusei a good place to live?

Chikusei 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 Japanese citizenship group in Chikusei?

The official citizenship distribution records 97,857 people (97.1%) 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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