Living in seogu

In seogu (KR-27), unemployment is 4.7% (2025).

The unemployment rate was 4.7% at the end of 2025. Seogu, a city in South Korea, had a population of 163,508 in June 2026. Annual PM2.5 was 15.1 µg/m³ at the end of 2024. There were 2.8 doctors per 1,000 people in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-1917 sources

Population163,508people30 Jun 2026Official source · MOIS resident registration population by si/gun/gu, June 2026

Unemployment rate4.7%country median 2.7% — 74% aboveOfficial source · KOSIS Local Area Labour Force Survey — si/gun/gu unemployment rate

Recorded crime3,641incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2024Official source · KR-Police-regional-crime-2024

PM2.5, annual mean15.07µg/m³country median 16.0 — 6% belowOfficial source · Air Pollution Level Confirmation Data — 2024 PM2.5 station observations

Which South Korea-wide rules apply when you move to seogu?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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Housing and cost

The housing-vacancy rate was 6.62% at the end of 2024. The city had 60,157 dwellings in 2024.

No city-level rent figure is published for seogu. 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€29

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	31.8 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	KT 100 Mbps internet¹⁰Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	28.91 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	KT mobile data plan¹¹Official · national market
Dwellings	60,157 dwellings	31 Dec 2024	DT_1JU1501 2024 housing units by municipality²Official
Housing Vacancy Rate Percent	6.62 %	31 Dec 2024	DT_1JU1512 2024 vacant housing units by municipality³Official

Is seogu a good place to live?

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Remote worker55%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 46–64%

Skilled employee64%strong on work, weak on safety · range 56–72%

Student49%strong on education, weak on work · range 41–57%

Family61%strong on family, weak on cost · range 53–69%

Retirement54%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 44–64%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in seogu?

The unemployment rate is 4.7 % (2025). Source: KOSIS Local Area Labour Force Survey — si/gun/gu unemployment rate⁸

Unemployment across cities in South KoreaUnemployment in seogu is 4.7%. Of 218 cities with data, 36 have unemployment of 0.5 to under 1%.

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seogu 4.7%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Unemployment rate	4.7 %country median 2.7%	31 Dec 2025	KOSIS Local Area Labour Force Survey — si/gun/gu unemployment rate⁸Official

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to seogu. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Work24 public employment service — Public employment service

Ministry of Employment and Labor, Republic of Korea

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
School Count	34 schools	21 Jul 2026	Schoolinfo official open-data callback response¹⁶Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Doctors per 1,000 residents	2.8 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	KOSIS e-RegionIndex doctors_per_1000⁶Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	2,710 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	KOSIS e-RegionIndex hospital_beds_per_100k⁷Official
Hospitals	23 count	30 Jun 2026	HIRA 전국 병의원 및 약국 현황 2026.6 — 시설정보⁴Official
Pharmacies	109 count	30 Jun 2026	HIRA 전국 병의원 및 약국 현황 2026.6 — 약국정보서비스⁴Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	280 per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	KOSIS e-RegionIndex doctors_per_1000⁶Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in seogu under the national coverage rules.

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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Doctors per 1,000 residents2.8 per 1,000Verified 2026-07-21

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is seogu?

Police recorded about 3,641 incidents per 100,000 (2024). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: KR-Police-regional-crime-2024⁹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	3,641 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	KR-Police-regional-crime-2024⁹Official
Violent crime per 100,000 residents	48.93 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2024	KR-Police-regional-crime-2024⁹Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for seogu. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Early Adaptation Program — Newcomer Adaptation

Ministry of Justice / Korea Immigration Service

For newly arrived foreign residents, international students, workers, marriage migrants.

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Social Integration Program (KIIP) — Integration course

Ministry of Justice / Korea Immigration Service

For foreign residents in Korea, people within three years of naturalization.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in seogu?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) — 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: 15.07 µg/m³ · Air Pollution Level Confirmation Data — 2024 PM2.5 station observations¹

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

PM2.515.1WHO 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 South KoreaAnnual PM2.5 in seogu is 15.1 µg/m³. Of 234 cities with data, 46 have annual PM2.5 of 17 to under 18 µg/m³.

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seogu 15.1

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	15.07 µg/m³country median 16.0	31 Dec 2024	Air Pollution Level Confirmation Data — 2024 PM2.5 station observations¹Official

Population and city profile

The city covered 17.3 km² in 2020. Population density was 9,418.9 people per km² in 2024.

How many people live in seogu?

The published population was 163,508 people in June 2026. Source: MOIS resident registration population by si/gun/gu, June 2026¹²

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport98.2%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	17.32 km²	2020	Official KOSIS visual statistics, Korea City Statistics, regional area; joined to the archived MOIS/KOSIS si-gun-gu code and name.¹⁴Official
Foreign-resident share	1.73 %	31 Dec 2025	Korea Immigration Service registered foreigners by si/gun/gu and nationality, 2025-12-31⁵Official
Foreign residents	2,897 people	31 Mar 2026	Registered foreigners by local government, March 2026¹⁵Official
Population density	9,419 people/km²	31 Dec 2024	Exact si-gun-gu density derived from archived official MOIS/KOSIS resident population and exact official KOSIS area row.¹⁴Official
Population Female	82,659 people	30 Jun 2026	MOIS resident-registration population, sex and household counts by administrative area, June 2026¹³Official
Population Male	80,849 people	30 Jun 2026	MOIS resident-registration population, sex and household counts by administrative area, June 2026¹³Official
Population	163,508 people	30 Jun 2026	MOIS resident registration population by si/gun/gu, June 2026¹²Official

International community in seogu

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Persons recorded in the official KOSIS registered-foreigner population table; this is not the total resident population and is not interchangeable with resident citizenship. · 2025

Published group	People	Share
계	2,844	100.0%
베트남	854	30.0%
중국	254	8.9%
파키스탄	250	8.8%
인도네시아	209	7.3%
우즈베키스탄	208	7.3%
한국계중국인	164	5.8%
필리핀	134	4.7%
캄보디아	104	3.7%
방글라데시	102	3.6%

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Published group	People	Share
인도	99	3.5%
미얀마	63	2.2%
스리랑카	56	2.0%
타이(태국)	53	1.9%
네팔	40	1.4%
러시아(연방)	40	1.4%
일본	36	1.3%
몽골	30	1.1%
타이완(대만)	29	1.0%
미국	25	0.9%
튀르키예	14	0.5%
남아프리카공화국	12	0.4%
키르기즈	11	0.4%
영국	10	0.4%
페루	7	0.2%
타지키스탄	6	0.2%
라오스	5	0.2%
카자흐스탄	4	0.1%
말레이시아	3	0.1%
이집트	3	0.1%
아프가니스탄	3	0.1%
아르헨티나	3	0.1%
캐나다	2	0.1%
모로코	2	0.1%
프랑스	1	0.0%
독일	1	0.0%
우크라이나	1	0.0%
티모르민주공화국(동티모르)	1	0.0%
이란	1	0.0%
브라질	1	0.0%
칠레	1	0.0%
아르메니아	1	0.0%
코스타리카	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁷

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Households	85,634 households	30 Jun 2026	MOIS resident-registration population, sex and household counts by administrative area, June 2026¹³Official

Alternatives for people set on seogu

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.

안동시 as a seogu alternative in the same country

Better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

Empty flats: 14.1% 안동시 vs 6.6% seogu+114%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,599 안동시 vs 3,641 seogu−29%
Hospital beds, per 100k: 3,380.0 안동시 vs 2,710.0 seogu+25%
Foreign residents: 1.4% 안동시 vs 1.7% seogu−17%
Residents: 151,864 안동시 vs 163,508 seogu−7%

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대덕구164,047 residents 의왕시164,221 residents 수영구168,440 residents 서산시171,136 residents 당진시172,400 residents gangseogu153,555 residents

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seogu in rankings

#15 of 30 in South Korean cities with the most hospital beds

Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in seogu?

The published population was 163,508 people in June 2026. Source: MOIS resident registration population by si/gun/gu, June 2026.

Is the air quality good in seogu?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: Air Pollution Level Confirmation Data — 2024 PM2.5 station observations.

How safe is seogu?

Police recorded about 3,641 incidents per 100,000 (2024). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: KR-Police-regional-crime-2024.

What is the unemployment rate in seogu?

The unemployment rate is 4.7 % (2025). Source: KOSIS Local Area Labour Force Survey — si/gun/gu unemployment rate.

How many foreign residents live in seogu?

2,897 people residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Registered foreigners by local government, March 2026.

Is seogu a good place to live?

seogu 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 지부티 citizenship group in seogu?

The official citizenship distribution records 0 people (0.0%) in the source-defined population for 2025. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, September 19). seogu (KR-27), South Korea: population, rent, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version e606bfb59027c3a2c2ba9ffa455825bc]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/kr/seogu-27170/ Retrieved 2026-09-19. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX citation

@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_seogu-kr-27-south-korea-population-rent-cost-of-living_38b52a380f5c,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {seogu (KR-27), South Korea: population, rent, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-09-19},
  version = {e606bfb59027c3a2c2ba9ffa455825bc},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/kr/seogu-27170/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-09-19. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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DT_1JU1512 2024 vacant housing units by municipality kosis.kr · checked 2026-07-22
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KOSIS e-RegionIndex doctors_per_1000 kosis.kr · checked 2026-07-21
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Schoolinfo official open-data callback response schoolinfo.go.kr · checked 2026-07-21
Statistics Korea / KOSIS citizenship distribution kosis.kr · checked 2026-08-28

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