France rent by commune
Look up a commune and see the asking rent per square meter that the French rent map gives for apartments and houses. Add two more to compare them.
Edition of December 2025, rents for the third quarter of 2025. Data read on 28 October 2026.
Add up to three communes to compare them. Paris, Lyon and Marseille are listed by arrondissement. Or see Nice, Bordeaux and Montpellier side by side.
How to read these figures
Each figure is a rent in euros per square meter and per month, charges included, for an unfurnished home first advertised in the third quarter of 2025. It comes from a statistical model fitted on rental listings from leboncoin and Groupe SeLoger. The ministry says plainly that these are not median or average rents, and that they measure rents of new lettings only.
The reference home
The model predicts the rent of one standard home for each type: 52 m² for apartments, all sizes, 37 m² for apartments with 1 or 2 rooms, 72 m² for apartments with 3 rooms or more and 92 m² for houses. Your own home will not look like it. The monthly figure on each card is only the price per square meter multiplied by that surface, and the card shows both numbers. Read it as a way to feel the scale, not as the price of a flat.
The interval
The bar on each card shows the 95% prediction interval: the range of rents per square meter in which the ministry says the predicted rent lies, with a 95% probability. The ministry adds that the smaller the interval, the more reliable the figure. Compare the width of the bar between communes before you compare the dots.
A commune or a group of communes
A commune with 100 observations or more gets an estimate of its own. Below that, the figure comes from a group of neighboring communes with similar housing and similar residents, a group that holds at least 500 observations. For some houses and larger apartments it comes from the intercommunality (EPCI). In the file for apartments of all sizes, 4,871 of 34,900 communes have an estimate of their own and 30,029 borrow from a group. Each card says which case it is, and how many observations stand behind it. An observation is a listing kept after the ministry's cleaning.
When the ministry says to be careful
The ministry asks users to treat a figure with caution when the R² of the model is below 0.5, when the commune has fewer than 30 observations, or when the interval is very wide. The R² says how closely the model follows the rents of the listings, and the ministry judges it good above 0.5. The cards flag the first two cases because they are numbers. For the third, the ministry gives no threshold, so the bar is there for you to judge.
These flags are common. For apartments of all sizes, 25,865 of the 34,900 communes (74%) have fewer than 30 observations or an R² below 0.5. Most of them are small rural communes. A flag does not mean the figure is wrong. It means the figure rests on less than the ministry would like.
What the figure is not
A listing price can differ from the rent in the lease, and the ministry says the gap can be real when an owner lets directly, mostly in rural areas. A tenant who has been in place for years often pays less than a new one, and these figures only describe new lettings. The data cannot split rent from charges, so the charges are in. Furnished rentals are out.
Where a local rent observatory exists, its figures come from surveys and cover the whole rental stock of its area. The ministry says they are more precise than this map. Use them first for a city they cover.
No trend
This page compares places on one quarter. It shows no change over time, and the ministry says the map cannot show one: the grouping of communes is redrawn every year, so an edition is not computed on the same perimeter as the one before. Do not set these figures against an older edition of the map, or against a figure from another source.
Where the data comes from
The figures are the ministry's rent map, published by ANIL, the national housing information agency, for the French housing ministry. The edition used here is the one of December 2025 on data.gouv.fr, under the Licence Ouverte 2.0. Four CSV files, one per home type, cover all of France except Mayotte, with the commune boundaries and names of 1 January 2025. The listings run from 1 January 2019 to 30 September 2025: 30.8 million received, 9.1 million left after cleaning.
We changed nothing in the estimates. We keep the rent and its bounds to the cent and the R² to the third decimal, and we split the files by département so that the page stays light: the search loads one list of names when you click in the box, then one small file per département you pick.
The ministry allows free reuse on one condition, that the source is shown in this form:
Estimations ANIL, à partir des données du Groupe SeLoger et de leboncoin
To cite this page:
EasyFranceNow, "France rent by commune", https://easyfrancenow.com/tools/france-rent-by-commune, data read 28 October 2026.
Sources read
Each page below was opened and read on 28 October 2026.
- 1data.gouv.fr: "Carte des loyers" - Indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 2025The dataset page: Licence Ouverte 2.0, the reference homes, the required credit, the cautions, the four CSV files. Last updated 11 December 2025.
- 2Guide d'utilisation de la carte des loyers (PDF, ministry)What each column means, the three levels of estimate, the 30 observations and R² of 0.5 cautions, why editions cannot be compared.
- 3Note méthodologique (PDF, ANIL, December 2025)The listings used (1 January 2019 to 30 September 2025, 9.1 million after cleaning), the groups of communes, the limits of listing data.
- 4Carte des loyers (ministry page)The map itself, with the same dataset and the guide to download.
- 5geo.api.gouv.fr: départementsThe names of the départements shown next to each commune.
Guides that use these figures
- Renting in Nice as an American
- Renting in Marseille as an American
- Renting in Montpellier as an American
- How to rent an apartment in France as an American
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