Insee Première · June 2023 · n° 1954

In 2021, slightly more people moved from Île-de-France to other regions than before the health crisis

In 2021, 6.8 million people moved into a new home, the same number as in 2019, before the health crisis.Thirty percent of people who moved during 2021 stayed in the same city, slightly fewer than in 2019. Moves from Île-de-France to other metropolitan regions have increased by 25%, with 56,000 more people moving in 2021 than in 2019. Moves to functionnal areas of cities with smaller populations than those of origin have also increased (+101,000 people in 2021 compared to 2019, i.e. +15%). This was also the case for mobility from urban to rural areas (+85,000 people, i.e. +12%), even if these people moved mainly to peri-urban rural areas. At the same time, the number of people moving from rural to urban areas fell slightly.

The changes in residential mobility by age, family type and socio-professional category were slight between 2019 and 2021. Executives who moved, mostly prefered moving to less populated areas and rural areas, and left more often the Île-de-France region.