Living in Chizu-cho

The city had 3 schools in May 2024. In 2024, the foreign population was 109. In October 2020, 八頭郡智頭町 had a population of 6,427. The median age was 62.3 years in 2026. The unemployment rate was 3.4% in October 2020.

Last checked 2026-10-1521 sources

Population6,427people1 Oct 2020Official source · Japan 2020 Census municipality population table

Median gross salary (region)226.2EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average rent289.1EUR/month31 Dec 2023Regional figureOfficial source · 2023 Housing and Land Survey, table 112-3-2: average one-month rent of exclusive dwellings

Unemployment rate3.4%country median 3.8% — 10% belowOfficial source · Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality

Recorded crime179.5incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Official source · 2025 confirmed crime recognition counts by municipality (令和7年市町村別認知状況)

Which Japan-wide rules apply when you move to Chizu-cho?

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 Chizu-cho.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 Chizu-cho. 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 citiesChizu-cho 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

Show the other 6 cities

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¹⁸Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	21.56 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	docomo mini 10GB⁴Official · national market
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	289.1 EUR/month	31 Dec 2023	2023 Housing and Land Survey, table 112-3-2: average one-month rent of exclusive dwellings¹Official · regional context

Is Chizu-cho 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 40–60%

Skilled employee56%strong on work, weak on education · range 48–64%

Student40%strong on safety, weak on work · range 32–48%

Family56%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 48–64%

Retirement55%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 44–66%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in 八頭郡智頭町?

The unemployment rate is 3.4 % (October 2020). Source: Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality⁹

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Chizu-cho is 3.4%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Chizu-cho 3.4%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	226.2 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁶Official
Unemployment rate	3.4 %country median 3.8%	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality⁹Official

What does a salary buy in Chizu-cho?

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
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	− €289
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 Chizu-cho Salary needed to live in Chizu-cho

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Chizu-cho. 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

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	3 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127¹³Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 1,000 residents	15.82 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024¹¹Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	1.6 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024¹²Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	171.3 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 Chizu-cho 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 residents1.6 per 1,000Verified 2026-08-31

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is 八頭郡智頭町?

Police recorded about 179 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: 179.5 incidents per 100,000 · 2025 confirmed crime recognition counts by municipality (令和7年市町村別認知状況)²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	179.5 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	2025 confirmed crime recognition counts by municipality (令和7年市町村別認知状況)²Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	1 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 Chizu-cho. 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 Chizu-cho.

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Climate and air quality

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

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8°1°

9°1°

13°3°

19°8°

24°13°

27°18°

31°22°

33°23°

28°19°

22°13°

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11°3°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

201

154

144

102

123

146

189

129

225

154

146

218

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Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

131

177

201

154

167

204

143

146

111

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hours

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average daytime high by month	Jan 8.1 · Feb 9.1 · Mar 13.1 · Apr 18.9 · May 23.8 · Jun 26.9 · Jul 30.9 · Aug 32.6 · Sep 27.8 · Oct 22.4 · Nov 16.8 · Dec 10.9 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station TOTTORI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan 1.1 · Feb 1 · Mar 3.1 · Apr 7.6 · May 12.9 · Jun 17.9 · Jul 22.5 · Aug 23.3 · Sep 19 · Oct 12.9 · Nov 7.7 · Dec 3.2 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station TOTTORI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 4.2 · Feb 4.7 · Mar 7.9 · Apr 13.2 · May 18.1 · Jun 22 · Jul 26.2 · Aug 27.3 · Sep 22.9 · Oct 17.2 · Nov 11.9 · Dec 6.8 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station TOTTORI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 201.2 · Feb 154 · Mar 144.3 · Apr 102.2 · May 123 · Jun 146 · Jul 188.6 · Aug 128.6 · Sep 225.4 · Oct 153.6 · Nov 145.9 · Dec 218.4 mm	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station TOTTORI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 69 · Feb 83.7 · Mar 131.3 · Apr 177.4 · May 201.4 · Jun 153.9 · Jul 166.5 · Aug 203.8 · Sep 143.4 · Oct 146.1 · Nov 110.7 · Dec 82.6 hours	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station TOTTORI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Japan: Hakusan ±0.8 °C. Elsewhere: Murfreesboro (United States) ±2.0 °C, Little Rock (United States) ±2.1 °C, Oklahoma City (United States) ±2.2 °C, Carrollton (United States) ±3.5 °C, Lewisville (United States) ±3.5 °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

The city covered 224.7 km² in 2024. Population density was 27.3 people per km² in 2024.

How many people live in 八頭郡智頭町?

The published population was 6,427 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table¹⁰

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport98.3%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	224.7 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	109 people	2024	Exact e-Stat municipality row A2201: 住民基本台帳人口（外国人）.⁶Official
Population density	27.3 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	6,427 people	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census municipality population table¹⁰Official

International community in Chizu-cho

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	6,427	100.0%
Japanese	6,359	98.9%
Foreigner	68	1.1%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	30	0.5%
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	24	0.4%
Others	5	0.1%
Republic of the Philippines	3	0.0%
Republic of Indonesia	2	0.0%
Republic of Korea	1	0.0%
People's Republic of China	1	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1	0.0%

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Published group	People	Share
United States of America	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	62.3 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)³Official

Alternatives for people set on Chizu-cho

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.

Nagi-cho as a Chizu-cho alternative in the same region

16 km away, better on 2 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Unemployment: 2.2% Nagi-cho vs 3.4% Chizu-cho−35%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 145 Nagi-cho vs 179 Chizu-chono percentage
Median gross pay, region: €244 Nagi-cho vs €226 Chizu-cho+8%
Residents: 5,578 Nagi-cho vs 6,427 Chizu-cho−13%

Full comparison More about Nagi-cho

Fuchu-cho as a Chizu-cho alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 185 km, better on 1 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Residents: 51,155 Fuchu-cho vs 6,427 Chizu-cho+696%
Median gross pay, region: €320 Fuchu-cho vs €226 Chizu-cho+41%
Unemployment: 3.3% Fuchu-cho vs 3.4% Chizu-chosame level

Full comparison More about Fuchu-cho

Cities near Chizu-cho

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

Yazu-cho 16.2 km away

Rent: 3.2 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Alternative cities in Japan

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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 八頭郡智頭町?

The published population was 6,427 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table.

How safe is 八頭郡智頭町?

Police recorded about 179 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: 2025 confirmed crime recognition counts by municipality (令和7年市町村別認知状況).

What is the unemployment rate in 八頭郡智頭町?

The unemployment rate is 3.4 % (October 2020). Source: Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality.

What is the typical salary around Chizu-cho?

The median gross salary is 226.2 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

How many foreign residents live in Chizu-cho?

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

Is Chizu-cho a good place to live?

Chizu-cho 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 Chizu-cho?

Yazu-cho, Nagi-cho are near Chizu-cho. 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 Chizu-cho?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,359 people (98.9%) 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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2023 Housing and Land Survey, table 112-3-2: average one-month rent of exclusive dwellings e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-09-23
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2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents) e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-09-24
docomo mini 10GB docomo.ne.jp · checked 2026-09-15
e-Stat / Statistics Bureau of Japan 2020 Population Census table 44-1 nationality e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-09-01
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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. e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-15
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. e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-15
Japan 2020 Census labor force status by municipality e-stat.go.jp · checked 2026-07-16
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