Cap-Ferret, Ile-de-Ré, mountain towns, Belle-Ile-en-Mer ... This list has nothing to do with a song by Laurent Voulzy but the few destinations where traces of "Parisians" have been seen since the start of containment. On Monday March 16, shortly before Emmanuel Macron's announcements, many of them cut the road in the late afternoon and evening. Direction the countryside, the seaside, family houses, secondary or rented for the occasion. Fear, selfishness or precaution? This old “bourgeois strategy” is not without risks, as we explained in this article. But how many are there to have opted for the exodus?
No less than 17% of the Parisian population would have left Paris between Sunday March 15 and Monday March 16 to join family homes, secondary or rented for the occasion, according to geolocation data collected by Orange. The INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) published this Wednesday a statistical study - via Orange data - on the distribution of the population present on the territory before and after confinement. With a focus on the Parisian population.
According to INSEE, "the announcement of containment on March 16 and its implementation from March 17 at noon were accompanied by population movements in mainland France. These displacements led to a new distribution of the population present on the territory which it is important to document ”.
A quarter of the population of Paris less
“Paris intra muros , sees its population present overnight decrease from 580,000 to 610,000 people, or a quarter of its population present overnight before the start of confinement. This corresponds to three situations: residents of other French departments passing through Paris left, for almost 40% of the drop; Parisians went to settle in another territory, for almost 33% of the decline (or 11% of Parisian residents); and foreigners passing through Paris went home for almost 28% of the drop, ”explains INSEE.
"Compared to before confinement, there are more Parisian residents and inhabitants of Hauts-de-Seine in Normandy, Burgundy, in the Center, Brittany and in the other departments of the Atlantic coast, their usual areas of second home, ”notes INSEE.
"1.4 million metropolitan residents have left a department"
At the national level, INSEE has noted that “nearly 1.4 million metropolitan residents have left a department where they were passing to join their department of residence. Assuming a net balance of 180,000 to 370,000 metropolitan residents returned to the territory, a total of 1.6 to 1.7 million people have joined their department of residence.
INSEE sees the results of this first study "as provisional". "These will be brought to be consolidated, then updated from more recent information, coming from several operators and alternative sources".
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