Living in Numazu

In Numazu, rents across existing tenancies average €7.11 per m² a month (2023).

At the end of 2020, unemployment in Numazu reached 4.33%.

Last checked 2026-09-2433 sources

Population185,758people31 Dec 2024Official source · e-Stat 社会・人口統計体系市区町村データ基礎データ（オリジナル）0000020101 — A2301 住民基本台帳人口（総数）, 調査年 2024年度

Median gross salary (region)301EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average net rent7.11EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27 — 13% aboveOfficial source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Unemployment rate4.33%country median 3.8% — 15% 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 crime633.6incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Official source · JP-22-Shizuoka-2025

PM2.5, annual mean7.4µg/m³country median 8.4 — 12% belowOfficial source · MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 沼津市

Pricier rent than 69% of Japanese cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 75% of Japanese cities that publish it and cleaner air than 75% of Japanese cities that publish it.

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

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 Numazu?

Average net cold rent is about 7.11 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): 7.11 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 citiesNumazu highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Osaka€10.65

Kyoto€10.46

Sapporo€7.56

Numazu€7.11

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	17.2 %	31 Oct 2023	2023 Housing and Land Survey, Table 1-2: Housing by occupancy status¹Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.11 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27	31 Dec 2023	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵Official
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	345 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 mura⁶Official

Is Numazu 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 worker55%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 47–63%

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

Student67%strong on education, weak on work · range 60–74%

Family72%strong on family, weak on legal route · range 65–79%

Retirement60%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 51–69%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 426 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 7.11 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 Numazu?

The unemployment rate is about 4.3 % (October 2020).

Unemployment rate: 4.33 % · 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 Numazu is 4.3%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Numazu 4.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	301 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁶Official
Unemployment rate	4.33 %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 Numazu?

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€7.11/m² · official · e-stat.go.jp · 2023-12-31	− €426
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 Numazu Salary needed to live in Numazu

Public employment service

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	64 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127¹⁰Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
GP practices	58 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	9.17 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	917.3 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official
Hospitals	10 count	1 Jun 2026	医療情報ネット hospitals facility CSV¹⁹Official
Pharmacies	111 count	1 Jun 2026	医療情報ネット pharmacies CSV²⁰Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	1.88 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁸Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	188.5 per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁸Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Numazu 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 residents917.3 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-09-16

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Numazu?

Police recorded about 634 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: 633.6 incidents per 100,000 · JP-22-Shizuoka-2025⁹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Burglaries per 100,000 residents	10.56 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	JP-22-Shizuoka-2025⁹Official
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	633.6 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	JP-22-Shizuoka-2025⁹Official
Violent crime per 100,000 residents	62.83 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	JP-22-Shizuoka-2025⁹Official

Mobility and administration

Numazu's nearest airport was OIM, 57 km away and offered 1 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹²Official
Destinations from nearest airport	3 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	57 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹³Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	OIM	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹³Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Numazu?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7.4 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 — 沼津市¹¹

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

PM2.57.4WHO 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 Numazu is 7.4 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Numazu 7.4

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	7.4 µg/m³country median 8.4	31 Mar 2024	MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 沼津市¹¹Official

Population and city profile

The city recorded a population density of 1,013 people per km² at the end of 2020.

How many people live in Numazu?

The published population was 185,758 people in 2024. Source: e-Stat 社会・人口統計体系市区町村データ基礎データ（オリジナル）0000020101 — A2301 住民基本台帳人口（総数）, 調査年 2024年度⁵

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport96.7%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	186.8 km²	3 Aug 2026	国土地理院 (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)²¹Official
Foreign-resident share	3.33 %	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	6,115 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	1,013 people/km²	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 第1-1表)²³Official
Population	185,758 people	31 Dec 2024	e-Stat 社会・人口統計体系市区町村データ基礎データ（オリジナル）0000020101 — A2301 住民基本台帳人口（総数）, 調査年 2024年度⁵Official

International community in Numazu

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	189,386	100.0%
Japanese	183,966	97.1%
Foreigner	4,042	2.1%
Nationality not reported	1,378	0.7%
Republic of the Philippines	1,053	0.6%
People's Republic of China	676	0.4%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	598	0.3%
Others	596	0.3%
Republic of Korea	323	0.2%
Federative Republic of Brazil	194	0.1%
Republic of Peru	185	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Kingdom of Thailand	111	0.1%
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	109	0.1%
Republic of Indonesia	82	0.0%
United States of America	55	0.0%
India	42	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	18	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	53.7 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)²Official

Alternatives for people set on Numazu

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.

Yaizu as a Numazu alternative in the same region

55 km away, better on 4 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2.

Recorded crime, per 100k: 389 Yaizu vs 634 Numazu−39%
Foreign residents: 4.6% Yaizu vs 3.3% Numazu+39%
Empty flats: 12.6% Yaizu vs 17.2% Numazu−27%
Unemployment: 3.7% Yaizu vs 4.3% Numazu−16%
Median gross pay, region: €278 Yaizu vs €301 Numazu−8%
Residents: 135,294 Yaizu vs 185,758 Numazu−27%
Hospital beds, per 100k: 995.3 Yaizu vs 917.3 Numazu+8%

Full comparison More about Yaizu

Kofu as a Numazu alternative in the same country

68 km away, better on 6 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Hospital beds, per 100k: 1,788.2 Kofu vs 917.3 Numazu+95%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 416 Kofu vs 634 Numazuno percentage
Annual PM2.5: 5.6 µg/m³ Kofu vs 7.4 µg/m³ Numazu−24%
Foreign residents: 4.3% Kofu vs 3.3% Numazu+29%
Unemployment: 3.7% Kofu vs 4.3% Numazu−14%
Rent: €6.64/m² Kofu vs €7.11/m² Numazu−7%
Median gross pay, region: €311 Kofu vs €301 Numazu+4%

Full comparison More about Kofu

Cities near Numazu

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

Shimizu-cho (Shizuoka) 3.6 km away

Rent: 7.13 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Nagaizumi-cho 5.6 km away

Rent: 8.37 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Susono 9.6 km away

Rent: 6.45 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Izunokuni 9.6 km away

Rent: 7.1 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Izu 15.3 km away

Rent: 5.28 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Fuji 18.5 km away

Rent: 6.69 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Atami 18.9 km away

Rent: 7.63 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Yugawara-machi 23.0 km away

Rent: 6.88 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Alternative cities in Japan

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Kishiwada185,713 residents Toyokawa185,900 residents Yamaguchi185,982 residents Odawara185,424 residents Tachikawa186,257 residents Chūō187,404 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 Numazu?

The published population was 185,758 people in 2024. Source: e-Stat 社会・人口統計体系市区町村データ基礎データ（オリジナル）0000020101 — A2301 住民基本台帳人口（総数）, 調査年 2024年度.

How much does it cost to rent in Numazu?

Average net cold rent is about 7.11 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 497 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is the air quality good in Numazu?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7.4 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 — 沼津市.

How safe is Numazu?

Police recorded about 634 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-22-Shizuoka-2025.

What is the unemployment rate in Numazu?

The unemployment rate is about 4.3 % (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 Numazu?

The median gross salary is 301 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is Numazu a good place to live?

Numazu 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 Numazu?

Shimizu-cho (Shizuoka), Nagaizumi-cho, Susono, Izunokuni, Izu are near Numazu. 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 Numazu?

The official citizenship distribution records 183,966 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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