News | Vaucluse has the highest poverty rate in the region
Vigorous demographically, Vaucluse is marked by high fragility indices. Its socio-professional structure is characterized in particular by the proportions of executives and intermediate professions below the national average and by the proportions of manual workers and senior employees (Insee, Population census, additional exploitation, 2016). The department has an unemployment rate of 10.4% while this rate stands at 9.1% for the region and 8% for mainland France.
The number of RSA beneficiaries experienced a sharp increase during the confinement period in 2020, to stand at 18,226 beneficiary households, an increase of 14.39% (September 2019/2020), before starting to decline which appears to be continuing.
In 2020, the poverty rate is 19.5%. It was then the highest in the region (17% for the region and 14.5% for mainland France). In certain districts of Avignon, this rate was even higher, such as in South Monclar (62.6%) or Saint-Chamand (56.8%). As for the poverty rate of single-parent families, it was 34% and that of those under 30 years of 26.9%.
In 2020, one in five Vauclusians lived on less than 1,026 euros per month, which then placed Vaucluse in 7th place among the poorest departments in France.
The proportion of young people with little or no education in the 20-24 year old uneducated population is significantly higher than the national average: 22% of young Vaucluse 20-24 year olds compared to 17.9% in mainland France.
More than 9,000 admissions are carried out on average per month by the Departmental Service for Social Action, or 109,170 for the year 2019 (these admissions may include several people from the same family).
Finally, 2,873 PMI (Maternal and Child Protection) consultations per month had taken place in 2019, ie more than 34,000 consultations annually.