Everyday life. By cross-referencing employment data and real estate data, it is possible to measure the attractiveness of a city. In both areas, Chaumont is particularly well placed. The city is much more attractive than the big cities and can thus meet the new desires of households. Explanations.
The attractiveness of a town like Chaumont depends first and foremost on employment and housing. Both are needed for a household to decide to settle in a place. Recruitment and real estate are two essential preambles to attract new residents.
However, in this area, Chaumont is particularly well positioned. First, on the employment side. Just yesterday, Emmanuel Jacob, director of Pôle emploi Chaumont, announced 302 offers in the city. Not less. Knowing that an offer can hide several jobs, it counts, in reality, more than 400. And knowing, finally, that Pôle emploi does not cover all the offers, this figure can easily be doubled. Word of mouth, direct searches for companies or on specialized sites easily bring the number of vacancies at Chaumont to 800.
“All sectors of activity are affected by a large number of job offers”
To this high figure due to strong demand from companies, Emmanuel Jacob adds a very topical characteristic: “all sectors of activity are concerned”. Not a single one escapes it with, in the end, a very low unemployment rate and a situation of almost full employment.
And as to access the property, it is preferable to have a permanent contract, it is interesting to know the percentage of CDI among the offers. In Chaumont, it is 41% and reduced to 100 inhabitants, it is 3.63%, a figure which is well above Saint-Etienne, Perpignan, Nîmes, Le Havre, Toulouse, Toulon…
Having a job is perfect, but it is still necessary to be able to find accommodation and therefore that real estate prices do not ruin all hopes of purchase. However, in this area, the health crisis has completely changed the aspirations of households. They aspire to bigger, are looking for a larger home, with an extra room, a garden or even a terrace.
And there, given the real estate prices, Chaumont is almost unbeatable. Its limited size is an asset compared to very large cities (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille…) and seaside towns (Nice, Toulon, Marseille…).
€1,138 per m2 in Chaumont
The price per square meter in Chaumont is, on average, for a property, €1,138, i.e. a price well below that of the three cities which, in 2021, have the strongest match of housing/employment interests and which are on the podium of the most favorable cities when it comes to employment and real estate purchasing power. Mulhouse, first in the ranking, has a price per square meter of €1,795. Orleans, 2e, is €2,601 and Dijon, 3e, is at €2,670.
In detail, in Chaumont, according to notaries, an apartment sells for €994 per m2 within a range, depending on the district, ranging from €542 to €1,298. The average price of a house is €1,274 per m2 within a range of €695 to €1,663.
These “reasonable” figures can be explained by a drop of 14.5% over 10 years. Chaumont has thus stuck to the reality of the market. In 5 years, they have fallen by 3.1% and over one year, they are stable. The other explanation for these prices per square meter is in balance and that it is not stretched like in the big cities.
158 m2 accessible
Even more interesting: by combining average salaries (€2,075 net per month in Chaumont) and prices per square meter, it is possible to obtain the real estate purchasing power of an average household in Chaumont. In other words, the number of square meters accessible when the French are looking for larger spaces.
Here again, Chaumont does better than all the big cities with 158 m2 accessible. In Mulhouse, it is 83 m2. In Orleans, 69 m2 and in Dijon, 57 m2. Saint-Etienne goes up to 101 m2 and, unsurprisingly, Lyon, 29 m2, Nice, 36m away2 and Paris, 17 m2.
In the end, even if Chaumont suffers from average attractiveness in terms of mobility, care or leisure, it outclasses all the big cities in terms of jobs and housing capacity. At a time when households are dreaming of spaces, of changing their lives directly linked to a job, Chaumont can seem like a real El Dorado.
Frederic Thevenin
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By combining employment and housing data and cross-referencing them, large cities such as Paris, Marseille and Lyon do not present the best results. Fertile ground for employment and obtaining a permanent contract and decent housing in terms of price and surface area lie elsewhere. The results of Meteojob and Meilleurtaux are implacable. “Small and medium-sized towns offer great opportunities with very high CDI rates as well as prices per square meter that remain quite affordable. These surfaces would be completely impossible to finance for the same price in large cities. All of these trends observed clearly confirm the 2020 trend placed under the sign of the pandemic and confinements. The inhabitants of very large cities were then in search of larger spaces. All driven by the development of teleworking. Today, their positions are confirmed. All the same, it remains to monitor the evolution of these cities in the months and years to come and the reinforcement or not of these new ways of working”.
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