Social · Indicateurs territoriaux de précarité socio-économique · sources INSEE, CAF, DADS. Pas d'indicateur dédié à la précarité énergétique.
Territorial precarity: regional poverty rates from 11% to 31%
Quelles régions françaises sont les plus exposées à la précarité socio-économique, et donc à la vulnérabilité énergétique ? Tour d'horizon des indicateurs de pauvreté et de RSA par territoire.
National view: 2008-2025 trajectory
Taux de pauvreté par région (%)
Data details
National poverty rate (metro France)
14.9 %
Metropolitan France · 60% median income threshold · FiLoSoFi 2021
National share of RSA households (metro France)
5.9 %
Households receiving RSA · CAF 2024 / INSEE 2022 household base
Most precarious territory
DROM (hors Mayotte)
Poverty rate: 31.4% · RSA: 23.4%
Least precarious territory
Pays de la Loire
Poverty rate: 11.0% · RSA: 3.7%
Key facts
- Taux de pauvreté moyen (France métropolitaine) : 14.9 % (seuil 60 % du revenu médian, FiLoSoFi 2021).
- Région la plus précaire : DROM (hors Mayotte) avec 31.4 % de taux de pauvreté et 23.4 % de ménages allocataires du RSA.
- Région la moins précaire : Pays de la Loire avec 11.0 % de taux de pauvreté, soit un écart de 20.4 points.
- Le jeu de données couvre 36,303 territoires (communes, EPCI, départements, régions). Compilation multi-sources INSEE · CAF · DADS.
Territorial precarity: social fractures and energy vulnerability
Energy poverty affects millions of French households struggling to pay their energy bills. With no dedicated national territorial indicator, socio-economic proxies (poverty rate, RSA share, median income) are the best available regional approximations.
Poverty · Poverty Rate
Poverty rate
"Primary proxy for energy vulnerability"
The poverty rate (60% of median income threshold) is the main socio-economic vulnerability indicator. It is strongly correlated with energy poverty.
In metropolitan France, it ranges from 11% (Pays de la Loire, Bretagne) to 18% (Hauts-de-France, Corse). Overseas territories (DROM) reach 31%.
RSA · RSA
RSA recipients
"Indicator of deep precarity"
The share of RSA recipient households measures the proportion of households receiving the active solidarity income (RSA), an indicator of deep precarity.
Regional gaps are stark: from 3.5% in Bretagne/Corse to 7.4% in Hauts-de-France, and up to 23% in overseas territories (DROM).
Why multiple series?
Why such regional gaps? Economic structure (industrial vs service jobs), urban vs rural density, access to public services and housing quality explain most of the disparities. Overseas territories (DROM) face compounded historical structural disadvantages.
Analogy: the precarity map mirrors a geography of social hardship. The poorest regions also spend the highest share of their budget on energy and live in the least insulated housing. A double burden: low incomes and energy-inefficient homes.
What this is not
- This dataset does not directly measure energy poverty (heating restriction rate, energy budget share).
- Territorial compilation, not a national energy poverty observatory: ONPE data (National Observatory of Energy Poverty) can complement this reading.
- Mixed reference years: median income 2021, RSA 2024, youth unemployment 2022, wages 2023.
Poverty rate and RSA share by region (%, 2021–2024)
Poverty rate by region (Metropolitan France, %, 2021)
What these figures do not show
Indicateurs de précarité socio-économique, pas directement de précarité énergétique. Proxies de vulnérabilité (pauvreté, RSA, revenu médian), corrélés mais non identiques. Compilation multi-sources INSEE, CAF et DADS. Millésimes : FiLoSoFi 2021 (pauvreté/revenus), CAF 2024 (RSA), INSEE 2022 (emploi jeunes).
Sources
Indicateurs territoriaux de précarité – Communes, EPCI, Départements, RégionsCompilation territoriale (Open Data) · 2026-05-28