Living in Val-d'Oise and relocating your employees

Indicators for your municipality

Choose a municipality: the page shows its housing, healthcare, schooling, leisure and safety indicators, each with its source and reference year.

Housing

Two public sources show what housing costs, municipality by municipality. The Housing Ministry's “carte des loyers” estimates the advertised rent of an unfurnished dwelling, service charges included: in Val-d'Oise the indicator ranges from €11.3 to €21.1 per m² for an apartment and from €10.2 to €18.3 per m² for a house, depending on the municipality.

Sales recorded by the tax administration (“Demandes de valeurs foncières”, DVF) give the price actually paid: from January 2021 to December 2025, the median price was €3,408 per m² for the 36,987 apartments sold in the department and €3,696 per m² for the 32,387 houses.

The rent indicator is an estimate for a standard dwelling (a 52 m² apartment, a 92 m² house) put on the rental market in the third quarter of 2025; it is neither an average nor a median rent. Where a municipality has too few listings, it is computed on a group of neighbouring municipalities: this is stated for each municipality. A municipality's median price is not published below 10 sales.

Sources: Ministry responsible for Housing and ANIL, “carte des loyers”, advertised rent indicators by municipality in 2025 (published 11 December 2025); data.gouv.fr based on DGFiP data, DVF statistics, sales from January 2021 to December 2025 (dataset updated 17 July 2026).

Schools and international sections

For state schools, the town hall of the municipality where the family lives indicates the catchment school. The Ministry of National Education publishes the list of international sections in primary schools, collèges and lycées: for 2026 it lists 6 sections in 4 state schools in Val-d'Oise.

Private schools and independent international schools are not included in this list. The number of nurseries, primary schools, collèges and lycées in each municipality is given in the indicators by municipality at the top of this page.

Upper secondary schools, higher education and research are presented in the section Training, higher education and research.

Sources: Ministry of National Education, “International sections and classes leading to the French international baccalaureate”, year 2026 (dataset updated 30 September 2026); Service Public, “Enrolment in primary school” (verified 10 January 2025).

Healthcare

Val-d'Oise has 9 emergency departments, 8 maternity units and 17 acute-care hospitals. 803 general practitioners, 603 dentists and 317 pharmacies were recorded there at 1 January 2025.

Relative to its population, the department has fewer general practitioners than average: 6.3 per 10,000 inhabitants, compared with 7.4 in Île-de-France and 9.0 in France.

Source: INSEE, permanent database of facilities 2025 (facilities at 1 January 2025, released 9 July 2026). Densities are computed: number recorded × 10,000 / 2023 municipal population (INSEE). A professional practising in several places is counted in each.

Getting around every day

RER and Transilien rail lines, the road network, transport projects and access times to the airports are described, with their sources, on the page Access and transport.

Culture, sport and nature

INSEE records in the department 28 cinemas, 125 libraries, 13 conservatoires, 28 performing arts venues, 50 swimming pools, 248 sports halls, 15 golf courses, 52 riding centres and 71 hiking loops.

102 of the 183 municipalities of Val-d'Oise lie within a regional nature park: 77 in the Vexin français park and 25 in the Oise – Pays de France park.

Sources: INSEE, permanent database of facilities 2025; Île-de-France Region, municipalities of the regional nature parks (dataset updated 5 June 2026).

Safety

Every year the Ministry of the Interior publishes, for each municipality, the number of crimes and offences recorded by the police and gendarmerie, according to where they were committed. These figures count offences brought to the attention of the security forces: they also depend on how readily victims report them and on police activity.

For a municipality, the ministry does not release an indicator when offences are too few. Figures for each municipality are in the indicators by municipality at the top of this page.

Source: Ministry of the Interior, ministerial statistical department for internal security (SSMSI), municipal, departmental and regional databases of recorded crime, year 2025, July 2026 edition. “France” rate computed: sum of offences in the regions × 1,000 / sum of populations (or dwellings).

Relocating an employee from abroad

Each formality is handled by a specific administration. For each one, here is what the official page says and where to find it. The rules depend on each person's nationality and situation: only the official page is authoritative.

• “Talent” residence permit

  The “talent – qualified employee” residence permit allows its holder to live and work in France without the employer having to apply for a work permit. It is issued for the duration of the employment contract, up to 4 years. One of the conditions of the “qualified employee” route is gross annual pay of at least €39,582. The spouse and minor children receive a “talent – family” permit.

  Talent permit (Service Public, in French)
  Hiring foreign employees (Business France)

• Social security

  Anyone working in France is entitled to coverage of healthcare costs from the first hour of work. Employees give their social security number to their employer; those born abroad apply for one to the local health insurance fund (CPAM).

  Health insurance for a foreign national settling in France (Service Public, in French)
  Social security registration (Service Public, in French)

• Income tax

  In the year following arrival, employees declare their income online or to the personal tax office (service des impôts des particuliers) for their home address in France.

  Arriving in France: how to declare your income (impots.gouv.fr, in French)

• Driving licence

  A licence issued by a non-European country is valid for one year from the date normal residence in France is acquired; to drive for longer it must be exchanged for a French licence. Licences issued in the European Union or the European Economic Area are covered by a separate page.

  Exchanging a licence obtained outside Europe (Service Public, in French)
  Licence obtained in Europe (Service Public, in French)

• Schooling for children

  For state schools, the town hall of the municipality where the family lives indicates the catchment school. The department's international sections are listed above.

  Enrolment in primary school (Service Public, in French)
  Facilitating the relocation of employees to France (Business France)

• Bank account

  A bank may refuse to open an account. In that case the person can apply to the Banque de France, which designates a bank that must open an account with basic banking services: this is the “right to an account”.

  Right to an account (Service Public, in French)

Sources: Service Public, impots.gouv.fr and Business France pages cited, consulted on Oct. 2, 2026.

In the setting-up guide: International, Your formalities, Set-up costs.