Living in Kunitachi

In Kunitachi, rents across existing tenancies average €11.18 per m² a month (2023).

Kunitachi's unemployment stood at 3.66% at the end of 2020. The city recorded a population density of 9,463.8 people per km² at the end of 2020.

Last checked 2026-09-2437 sources

Population76,460people1 Jan 2026Official source · Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total

Median gross salary (region)435.2EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average net rent11.18EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27 — 78% aboveOfficial source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Unemployment rate3.66%country median 3.8% — 3% 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 crime700.7incidents 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 mean8.4µg/m³country median 8.4 — about the sameOfficial source · tenbou.nies.go.jp

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

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 Kunitachi.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 Kunitachi?

Average net cold rent is about 11.18 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): 11.18 EUR/m²/month · www.e-stat.go.jp²⁰

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€32

Mobile plan, 10 GB€22

Net rent across major citiesKunitachi highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Kunitachi€11.18

Osaka€10.65

Hiroshima€8.38

Sapporo€7.56

Show the other 6 cities

Kyoto€10.46

Saitama€10.37

Fukuoka€9.00

Kobe€8.87

Sendai€8.85

Nagoya€8.81

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²²Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	21.56 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	docomo mini 10GB²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	11.18 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27	31 Dec 2023	www.e-stat.go.jp²⁰Official
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	437.1 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 Kunitachi 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 worker50%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 41–59%

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

Student53%strong on education, weak on work · range 45–61%

Family58%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 49–67%

Retirement48%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 38–58%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 671 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 11.18 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 Kunitachi?

The unemployment rate is about 3.7 % (October 2020).

Unemployment rate: 3.66 % · 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)²⁵

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Kunitachi is 3.7%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Kunitachi 3.7%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	435.2 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp²¹Official
Unemployment rate	3.66 %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)²⁵Official

What does a salary buy in Kunitachi?

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€11.18/m² · official · e-stat.go.jp · 2023-12-31	− €671
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 Kunitachi Salary needed to live in Kunitachi

Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	23 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127¹⁰Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 1,000 residents	0.87 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁶Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	1.24 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	145.7 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 Kunitachi 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 residents1.24 per 1,000Verified 2026-08-31

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	700.7 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1-5-2²³Official · regional context

Mobility and administration

Kunitachi's nearest airport was HND, 35 km away and offered 73 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	73 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹³Official
Destinations from nearest airport	4 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.¹⁹Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	35 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁴Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	HND	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁴Official

Language courses and integration

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

Find courses near Kunitachi

Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Kunitachi?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8.4 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.jp¹⁶

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

PM2.58.4WHO 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 Kunitachi is 8.4 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Kunitachi 8.4

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8.4 µg/m³country median 8.4 — about the same	31 Dec 2023	tenbou.nies.go.jp¹⁶Official

Population and city profile

How many people live in Kunitachi?

The published population was 76,460 people in 2026. Source: Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total¹⁵

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport97.1%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	8.15 km²	3 Aug 2026	国土地理院 (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)²⁴Official
Foreign-resident share	2.86 %	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民 ÷ 総計)²⁷Official
Foreign residents	2,183 people	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民)²⁷Official
Population density	9,464 people/km²	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 第1-1表)²⁶Official
Population	76,460 people	1 Jan 2026	Resident Register Population, Population Movement and Number of Households Survey; 2026-01-01 municipal total¹⁵Official

International community in Kunitachi

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	77,130	100.0%
Japanese	73,679	95.5%
Nationality not reported	1,886	2.4%
Foreigner	1,565	2.0%
People's Republic of China	668	0.9%
Republic of Korea	314	0.4%
Others	199	0.3%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	107	0.1%
Republic of the Philippines	77	0.1%
United States of America	67	0.1%
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	58	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
India	20	0.0%
Kingdom of Thailand	19	0.0%
Republic of Indonesia	14	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	10	0.0%
Republic of Peru	8	0.0%
Federative Republic of Brazil	4	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	48.8 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)¹Official

Alternatives for people set on Kunitachi

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.

Ayase as a Kunitachi alternative in the same region

27 km away, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2.

Foreign residents: 6.6% Ayase vs 2.9% Kunitachi+132%
Rent: €7.84/m² Ayase vs €11.18/m² Kunitachi−30%
Median gross pay, region: €313 Ayase vs €435 Kunitachi−28%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 543 Ayase vs 701 Kunitachi−23%
Unemployment: 4.1% Ayase vs 3.7% Kunitachi+11%
Residents: 83,871 Ayase vs 76,460 Kunitachi+10%

Full comparison More about Ayase

Nakatsugawa as a Kunitachi alternative in the same country

Better on 4 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

Rent: €4.95/m² Nakatsugawa vs €11.18/m² Kunitachi−56%
Median gross pay, region: €271 Nakatsugawa vs €435 Kunitachi−38%
Unemployment: 2.8% Nakatsugawa vs 3.7% Kunitachi−23%
Foreign residents: 3.7% Nakatsugawa vs 2.9% Kunitachi+28%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 671 Nakatsugawa vs 701 Kunitachi−4%

Full comparison More about Nakatsugawa

Cities near Kunitachi

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

Kokubunji 3.5 km away

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

Fuchū 3.6 km away

Rent: 12.24 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Hino 3.9 km away

Rent: 9.82 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Tachikawa 4.5 km away

Rent: 10.48 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Tama 5.2 km away

Rent: 9.47 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Koganei 5.8 km away

Rent: 12.8 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Kodaira 5.9 km away

Rent: 10.06 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Higashiyamato 7.0 km away

Rent: 7.28 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Alternative cities in Japan

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

All Japan cities

Nakatsugawa76,570 residents Kai76,349 residents Aira76,348 residents Gamagōri76,682 residents Shiki76,187 residents Aki-ku (Hiroshima)77,103 residents

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Is Kunitachi part of Tokyo?

Kunitachi is near Tokyo, but the collected evidence does not establish that it is administratively part of the hub or an official satellite. It is about 22.9 km away by straight-line distance. Tokyo city profile

Relationship type: Nearby Independent Place. Source³⁷

Which comparable places record less crime than Kunitachi?

5 places have a lower recorded total crime rate than Kunitachi in this strictly source-matched cohort.

Kunitachi: 472.2 offences/100k (2024).

Komae — 319.2 offences/100k2024 Inagi — 409.5 offences/100k2024 Fuchū — 414.4 offences/100k2024 Hino — 429.7 offences/100k2024 Kokubunji — 455.8 offences/100k2024

Only the same source family, offence definition, period, grain and denominator method are compared. This is recorded crime, not a claim about personal safety. Official source¹⁷

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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 Kunitachi?

The published population was 76,460 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 Kunitachi?

Average net cold rent is about 11.18 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 783 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is the air quality good in Kunitachi?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8.4 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.

What is the unemployment rate in Kunitachi?

The unemployment rate is about 3.7 % (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 Kunitachi?

The median gross salary is 435.2 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is Kunitachi a good place to live?

Kunitachi 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.

Is Kunitachi part of Tokyo?

Kunitachi is near Tokyo, but the collected evidence does not establish that it is administratively part of the hub or an official satellite. It is about 22.9 km away by straight-line distance.

Which cities are near Kunitachi?

Kokubunji, Fuchū, Hino, Tachikawa, Tama are near Kunitachi. 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 Kunitachi?

The official citizenship distribution records 73,679 people (95.5%) in the source-defined population for 2020. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

Which comparable places record less crime than Kunitachi?

5 places have a lower recorded total crime rate than Kunitachi in this strictly source-matched cohort. The comparison uses Tokyo Metropolitan Police annual 2024 + Tokyo Metropolitan Government population estimate, period 2024, and does not compare across incompatible police definitions.

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