The flight of Parisians cannot be denied.
According to an INSEE study which has just been published, there have been, overall, more and more uncompensated departures from the capital since 2013. Thus, in 2013, when 100 people left Paris, 94 moved there.
In 2022, there were only 72 left.
And not necessarily for a radical change of life, since the installations are most often simply in the direction of the suburbs.
In addition to ex-Parisians settling in the Paris suburbs, households leaving the capital are heading more towards three regions: New Aquitaine, Occitanie and Hauts-de-France.
As for Centre-Val de Loire, Brittany and Burgundy-Franche-Comté, these are the destinations to which mobility has increased the most since 2018.
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In the other direction, among the nearly 150,000 people who had new housing in the capital in 2021, more than half (54%) were already Parisians.
The others are mainly households from the Greater Paris metropolis (12%), the rest of Île-de-France excluding (5%), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (15%), Nouvelle-Aquitaine , from Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (11% each) but also from abroad (9%).
These neo-Parisian households have on average a lower standard of living than those of already settled Parisians, INSEE also reveals.
Parisian households who have moved within Paris are also wealthier than those who have not changed accommodation (+11%).
They are also younger.
Between 2013 and 2022, the share of these young people in all households entering Paris increased from 63% in 2013 to 70% in 2022. An increase which can be explained in particular by the large number of higher education establishments in the capital: students are almost five times more numerous among households arriving in Paris (18%) than among households residing there (4%).