Living in Goka-machi

For 猿島郡五霞町, the unemployment rate was 4.1% in October 2020. The median age was 57.0 years in 2026. The city had 2 schools in May 2024. 猿島郡五霞町 had a population of 8,093 in October 2020.

Last checked 2026-10-1526 sources

Population8,093people1 Oct 2020Official source · Japan 2020 Census municipality population table

Median gross salary (region)255.1EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average rent319.5EUR/month31 Dec 2023Regional figureOfficial source · 2023 Housing and Land Survey, table 112-3-2: average one-month rent of exclusive dwellings

Unemployment rate4.1%country median 3.8% — 9% aboveOfficial source · Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality

Recorded crime693.3incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Official source · Confirmed 2025 Ibaraki municipal Penal Code offence counts and crime rates (令和7年12月末市町村別刑法犯認知件数)

PM2.5, annual mean10.12µg/m³31 Dec 2023Nearest stationOfficial source · NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023

Higher unemployment than 65% of Japanese cities that publish it and dirtier air than 87% of Japanese cities that publish it.

Which Japan-wide rules apply when you move to Goka-machi?

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 Goka-machi.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.

No city-level rent figure is published for Goka-machi. The available city-level cost figures remain below.

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€32

Mobile plan, 10 GB€22

Net rent across major citiesGoka-machi highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Osaka€10.65

Kyoto€10.46

Hiroshima€8.38

Sapporo€7.56

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Saitama€10.37

Chiba€9.08

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¹⁷Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	21.56 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	docomo mini 10GB⁴Official · national market
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	319.5 EUR/month	31 Dec 2023	2023 Housing and Land Survey, table 112-3-2: average one-month rent of exclusive dwellings¹Official · regional context

Is Goka-machi 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 worker47%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 37–57%

Skilled employee50%strong on work, weak on education · range 42–58%

Student37%strong on housing, weak on work · range 29–45%

Family49%strong on safety, weak on education · range 41–57%

Retirement49%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 38–60%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in 猿島郡五霞町?

The unemployment rate is 4.1 % (October 2020). Source: Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality⁹

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Goka-machi is 4.1%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Goka-machi 4.1%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	255.1 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵Official
Unemployment rate	4.1 %country median 3.8%	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality⁹Official

What does a salary buy in Goka-machi?

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

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Internet
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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
Rentaverage rent of a whole dwelling · official · 2023 Housing and Land Survey, table 112-3-2: average one-month rent of exclusive dwellings · 2023-12-31	− €320
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 Goka-machi. 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 Goka-machi. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	2 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127¹²Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Physicians per 1,000 residents	0.248 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024¹¹Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	24.7 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.⁸Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Goka-machi 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 residents0.248 per 1,000Verified 2026-08-31

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is 猿島郡五霞町?

Police recorded about 693 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: 693.3 incidents per 100,000 · Confirmed 2025 Ibaraki municipal Penal Code offence counts and crime rates (令和7年12月末市町村別刑法犯認知件数)³

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	693.3 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Confirmed 2025 Ibaraki municipal Penal Code offence counts and crime rates (令和7年12月末市町村別刑法犯認知件数)³Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
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.¹⁴Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in 猿島郡五霞町?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 10.1 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: 10.12 µg/m³ · NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023¹³

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

PM2.510.1WHO 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 Goka-machi is 10.1 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	10.12 µg/m³	31 Dec 2023	NIES monthly PM2.5 station means annualized to calendar 2023¹³Official · nearest-station reading

Population and city profile

The city covered 23.1 km² in 2024. Population density was 343.3 people per km² in 2024.

How many people live in 猿島郡五霞町?

The published population was 8,093 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table¹⁰

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport95%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	23.11 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 km2.⁷Official
Foreign residents	405 people	2024	Exact e-Stat municipality row A2201: 住民基本台帳人口（外国人）.⁶Official
Population density	343.3 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 km2.⁷Official
Population	8,093 people	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census municipality population table¹⁰Official

International community in Goka-machi

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	8,093	100.0%
Japanese	7,948	98.2%
Foreigner	145	1.8%
Others	42	0.5%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	31	0.4%
Federative Republic of Brazil	29	0.4%
People's Republic of China	16	0.2%
Republic of Indonesia	7	0.1%
Republic of Korea	6	0.1%
Republic of the Philippines	6	0.1%
Kingdom of Thailand	4	0.0%

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Published group	People	Share
India	2	0.0%
United States of America	1	0.0%
Republic of Peru	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁵

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median age	57 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)²Official

Alternatives for people set on Goka-machi

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.

Sakai-machi as a Goka-machi alternative in the same region

4 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Residents: 24,201 Sakai-machi vs 8,093 Goka-machi+199%
Unemployment: 3.2% Sakai-machi vs 4.1% Goka-machi−22%
Median gross pay, region: €265 Sakai-machi vs €255 Goka-machi+4%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 678 Sakai-machi vs 693 Goka-machisame level
Annual PM2.5: 10.1 µg/m³ Sakai-machi vs 10.1 µg/m³ Goka-machisame level

Full comparison More about Sakai-machi

Fuchu-cho as a Goka-machi alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 685 km, better on 2 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Residents: 51,155 Fuchu-cho vs 8,093 Goka-machi+532%
Median gross pay, region: €320 Fuchu-cho vs €255 Goka-machi+25%
Unemployment: 3.3% Fuchu-cho vs 4.1% Goka-machi−20%

Full comparison More about Fuchu-cho

Cities near Goka-machi

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

Satte 4.4 km away

Rent: 6.24 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Sakai-machi 4.4 km away

Rent: 6.15 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Koga 7.2 km away

Rent: 6.35 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Kuki 9.2 km away

Rent: 7.27 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Sugito-machi 9.9 km away

Rent: 5.36 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Kazo 13.1 km away

Rent: 7.27 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Shiraoka 13.1 km away

Rent: 8.2 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Alternative cities in Japan

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Soeda8,086 residents Mogami-machi8,080 residents Mihama-cho (Mie)8,079 residents Sakahogi-cho8,071 residents Tara8,121 residents Taragi8,134 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 猿島郡五霞町?

The published population was 8,093 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table.

Is the air quality good in 猿島郡五霞町?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 10.1 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.

How safe is 猿島郡五霞町?

Police recorded about 693 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Confirmed 2025 Ibaraki municipal Penal Code offence counts and crime rates (令和7年12月末市町村別刑法犯認知件数).

What is the unemployment rate in 猿島郡五霞町?

The unemployment rate is 4.1 % (October 2020). Source: Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality.

What is the typical salary around Goka-machi?

The median gross salary is 255.1 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

How many foreign residents live in Goka-machi?

405 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Exact e-Stat municipality row A2201: 住民基本台帳人口（外国人）..

Is Goka-machi a good place to live?

Goka-machi 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 Goka-machi?

Satte, Sakai-machi, Koga, Kukichūō, Kuki are near Goka-machi. 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 Goka-machi?

The official citizenship distribution records 7,948 people (98.2%) 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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2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents) e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-09-24
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Exact e-Stat municipality row A2201: 住民基本台帳人口（外国人）. e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-15
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