Living in Kiyosu

In Kiyosu, rents across existing tenancies average €7.99 per m² a month (2023).

The city faced an unemployment rate of 3.27% at the end of 2020. At the end of 2020, the population density reached 3,882 people per km².

Last checked 2026-09-2421 sources

Population67,352people1 Oct 2020Official source · Japan 2020 Census municipality population table

Median gross salary (region)317.9EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average net rent7.99EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27 — 27% aboveOfficial source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Unemployment rate3.27%country median 3.8% — 13% belowOfficial 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 crime757.6incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Regional figureOfficial source · 令和７年の犯罪情勢 / 令和７年の犯罪情勢統計表, 図表1-5-2

PM2.5, annual mean8.63µg/m³31 Dec 2023Nearest stationOfficial source · NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023

Pricier rent than 80% of Japanese cities that publish it and lower unemployment than 74% of Japanese cities that publish it.

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

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 Kiyosu.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 Kiyosu?

Average net cold rent is about 7.99 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): 7.99 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 citiesKiyosu highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Osaka€10.65

Kyoto€10.46

Kiyosu€7.99

Sapporo€7.56

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 10GB²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.99 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27	31 Dec 2023	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵Official
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	379.7 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 Kiyosu 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 air quality · range 43–61%

Skilled employee59%strong on work, weak on safety · range 51–67%

Student51%strong on education, weak on work · range 43–59%

Family56%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 47–65%

Retirement48%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 36–60%

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 about 7.99 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 Kiyosu?

The unemployment rate is about 3.3 % (October 2020).

Unemployment rate: 3.27 % · 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)²⁰

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Kiyosu is 3.3%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Kiyosu 3.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	317.9 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁶Official
Unemployment rate	3.27 %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)²⁰Official

What does a salary buy in Kiyosu?

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€7.99/m² · official · e-stat.go.jp · 2023-12-31	− €479
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 Kiyosu Salary needed to live in Kiyosu

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Kiyosu. 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

Open the Japan service overview

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	14 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127⁹Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 1,000 residents	4.06 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	0.856 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁸Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	89.6 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.⁴Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Kiyosu 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 residents0.856 per 1,000Verified 2026-08-31

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	757.6 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	令和７年の犯罪情勢 / 令和７年の犯罪情勢統計表, 図表1-5-2¹⁸Official · regional context

Mobility and administration

Kiyosu's nearest airport was NKM, 9 km away and offered 6 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	6 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹¹Official
Destinations from nearest airport	9 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
Distance to the nearest major airport	9 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	NKM	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official

Language courses and integration

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

Open official information

Open the full Japan section

National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Kiyosu.

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperature moved from 4.8°C in January to 26.9°C in July. Kiyosu's monthly precipitation totalled 50.8 mm in January and 211.4 mm in July. Kiyosu's average monthly sunshine was 174.5 hours in January and 166 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Kiyosu?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.6 µg/m³ (2023) — 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: 8.63 µg/m³ · NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023¹⁰

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

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Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

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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

PM2.58.6WHO 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 Kiyosu is 8.6 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Kiyosu 8.6

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8.63 µg/m³	31 Dec 2023	NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023¹⁰Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 9.3 · Feb 10.5 · Mar 14.5 · Apr 20.1 · May 24.6 · Jun 27.6 · Jul 31.4 · Aug 33.2 · Sep 29.1 · Oct 23.3 · Nov 17.3 · Dec 11.7 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station NAGOYA¹⁴Official · parent municipality
Average night-time low by month	Jan 1.1 · Feb 1.4 · Mar 4.6 · Apr 9.7 · May 14.9 · Jun 19.4 · Jul 23.5 · Aug 24.7 · Sep 21 · Oct 14.8 · Nov 8.6 · Dec 3.4 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station NAGOYA¹⁴Official · parent municipality
Average temperature by month	Jan 4.8 · Feb 5.5 · Mar 9.2 · Apr 14.6 · May 19.4 · Jun 23 · Jul 26.9 · Aug 28.2 · Sep 24.5 · Oct 18.6 · Nov 12.6 · Dec 7.2 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station NAGOYA¹⁴Official · parent municipality
Average precipitation by month	Jan 50.8 · Feb 64.7 · Mar 116.2 · Apr 127.5 · May 150.3 · Jun 186.5 · Jul 211.4 · Aug 139.5 · Sep 231.6 · Oct 164.7 · Nov 79.1 · Dec 56.6 mm	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station NAGOYA¹⁴Official · parent municipality
Average sunshine by month	Jan 174.5 · Feb 175.5 · Mar 199.7 · Apr 200.2 · May 205.5 · Jun 151.8 · Jul 166 · Aug 201.3 · Sep 159.6 · Oct 168.9 · Nov 167.1 · Dec 170.3 hours	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station NAGOYA¹⁴Official · parent municipality

Similar climate. In Japan: Matsusaka ±0.8 °C. Elsewhere: Little Rock (United States) ±1.8 °C, Oklahoma City (United States) ±2.2 °C, Murfreesboro (United States) ±2.4 °C, Carrollton (United States) ±2.6 °C, Lewisville (United States) ±2.6 °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

How many people live in Kiyosu?

The published population was 67,352 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table⁶

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport96.4%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	17.35 km²	3 Aug 2026	国土地理院 (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)¹⁹Official
Foreign-resident share	3.49 %	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民 ÷ 総計)²¹Official
Foreign residents	2,402 people	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民)²¹Official
Population density	3,882 people/km²	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 第1-1表)⁶Official
Population	67,352 people	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census municipality population table⁶Official

International community in Kiyosu

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	67,352	100.0%
Japanese	61,185	90.8%
Nationality not reported	4,966	7.4%
Foreigner	1,201	1.8%
Republic of Korea	252	0.4%
Federative Republic of Brazil	225	0.3%
People's Republic of China	209	0.3%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	182	0.3%
Others	165	0.2%
Republic of the Philippines	105	0.2%
Republic of Indonesia	14	0.0%

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Published group	People	Share
Kingdom of Thailand	12	0.0%
Republic of Peru	12	0.0%
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	10	0.0%
United States of America	8	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	7	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	45.6 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)¹Official

Alternatives for people set on Kiyosu

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.

Ina as a Kiyosu alternative in the same country

Better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2.

Rent: €5.93/m² Ina vs €7.99/m² Kiyosu−26%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 407 Ina vs 758 Kiyosu−46%
Median gross pay, region: €274 Ina vs €318 Kiyosu−14%
Foreign residents: 3.2% Ina vs 3.5% Kiyosu−9%
Residents: 66,125 Ina vs 67,352 Kiyosu−2%
Unemployment: 3.3% Ina vs 3.3% Kiyosusame level

Full comparison More about Ina

Alternative cities in Japan

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Shiojiri67,241 residents Toyoake67,743 residents Atsuta-ku (Nagoya)66,957 residents Saiki66,851 residents Konan-ku (Niigata)67,972 residents Sabae68,005 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 Kiyosu?

The published population was 67,352 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table.

How much does it cost to rent in Kiyosu?

Average net cold rent is about 7.99 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 559 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is the air quality good in Kiyosu?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.6 µg/m³ (2023) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023.

What is the unemployment rate in Kiyosu?

The unemployment rate is about 3.3 % (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 Kiyosu?

The median gross salary is 317.9 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is Kiyosu a good place to live?

Kiyosu 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 Kiyosu?

The official citizenship distribution records 61,185 people (90.8%) 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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