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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 261,000[1][2] - 400,000[3][4][5] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Aquitaine,Languedoc-Roussillon,Midi-Pyrénées,Brittany,Poitou-Charentes,Corsica,Centre-Val de Loire,Limousin,Pays de la Loire,Lower Normandy,Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,Alsace (particularlyStrasbourg),French Alps | |
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| French,English | |
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| Anglicanism,Protestantism,Irreligion,Catholicism | |
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| Britons |
British migration to France has resulted inFrance being home to one of the largestBritish-born populations outside theUnited Kingdom. Migration from the UK to France has increased rapidly from the 1990s onwards. Estimates of the number of British citizens living in France vary from 261,000[1][6] to 400,000.[3][7][8][9] BesidesParis, many British expatriates tend to be concentrated in the regions ofsouthern France,Brittany, and recently the island ofCorsica.Dordogne has a large British immigrant community. The region has between 5,000 and 10,000 British residents and 800 British entrepreneurs, drawn by the French lifestyle and warmer climate in the south.[10][11][failed verification]
There are conflicting estimates of the size of the British community in France. Estimates range from 261,000[1] to 400,000.[3][6][12] The main destinations of British migration to France apart from Paris are rural areas of France and the southern areas of the country. The major regions chosen by this community areNouvelle-Aquitaine,Occitanie,Brittany andCorsica. InEymet, Dordogne, British immigrants account for a third of the local population, and inSaint-Nom-la-Bretèche andl'Etang-la-Ville in theYvelines department near Paris, are a large proportion of UK nationals.
According to the data collected, the distribution of Britons (the numerical figure is probably double that) in France was as follows:
| Location | Population |
|---|---|
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 40,000[13] |
| Occitania (administrative region) | 25,000[13] |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 25,000[14] |
| Île-de-France | 18,000[15] |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 15,000[16] |
| Brittany (administrative region) | 12,600[17] |
| Normandy | 7,500[18] |
| Pays de la Loire | 7,004[19] |
In 2021, since the United Kingdom left the European Union, 100,000 residence permits have been granted to Britons in France.[20][21]By the end of October 2021, more than 165,400 applications for residence permits had been submitted by British citizens in France.[22]
In 2014, the National Statistics Institute (INSEE, for its acronym in French) published a study, reporting that there are double the number of British immigrants, this increase having resulted from the financial crisis that affected several countries in Europe in that period; as a result, this has driven up the number of Europeans living in France.[23] The number of British immigrants in France increased by 50% between 2009 and 2012.[24][23]
Other European immigrants in France: Portuguese 8%, British 5%, Spanish 5%, Italians 4%, Germans 4%, Romanians 3%, Belgians 3%.[23] Displaced workers of Europe in France are: Poles (18% of the total), followed by the Portuguese people (15%) and Romanians (13%).[25][23]
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