In recent years, several cities in the country have made a box with the French and have seen a massive influx of new inhabitants such as in Bordeaux or Lyon. Another very popular city: Nantes. But the honeymoon is over for the city of Loire-Atlantique … where do we settle the most?
For a decade, from 2014 to 2024, the city of Nantes was one of those that saw its most increased population: nearly 30,000 additional inhabitants over this period according to INSEE figures. She had solid assets in her round: more affordable prices to buy accommodation, proximity to the ocean, a station that connects the capital in 2 hours when you do a job partly in remote… Yes but here it is, everything suggests that she is experiencing a brake on today.
Indeed, recent data indicate a decrease in shedding in Nantes to believe the results of the study conducted by Drivalia. The rental, leasing, leasing and mobility company of CA Auto Bank, analyzed the internal data of its own utility rental service in a single return and drop, usually prized for moves, over the period from March 1 to May 15, 2025. The results of last months, coupled with a comparison with 2024, is without appeal: Nantes is not even in the Top 10.
The city, which notably knows serious problems of insecurity (25 % increase in drug trafficking, 64 episodes of gunshots and shootings last year, 14 % increase in vehicle flights …) and has been drowned by a massive influx of Ile -de -France in recent years, is therefore not even more in the top of the company. “”It is the same for Rennes and Aix-en-Provence“, Specifies the study which also underlines the disappearance of Marseille, however 7th last year …
But then where have the French moved in recent months? Bordeaux occupies 3rd place in the podium and is beaten by another very popular city, especially with Parisians in search of larger and cheaper accommodation than in the capital, namely Lyon. And, surprise, when we hear that the city of Light loses residents each year, it still takes the first place of this study. It is therefore in Paris that we still move the most now!
The shielded public transport of people, the traffic jams, the delusional prices of rents and the daily incivility were not right for the attractiveness of the capital which has just over 2 million inhabitants. It must be said that Paris also gives lots of reasons to want to live there: professional opportunities, grandes écoles, cultural offer or its dynamic life make the hearts of Parisians beat.
