It will come as no surprise to anyone if we say that the share of very high-income households is tiny in Hauts-de-France. Who is part of it? INSEE has just revealed the figures from a study which make it possible to draw up a rough portrait of the region’s armored vehicles.
First of all, you need to know what INSEE calls a “very high income”. For a single person, this corresponds to an income of at least 9,800 euros per month before tax, or 213,000 euros per household per year. From there, in 2021, the institute counts only 15,100 households across all of Hauts-de-France falling into this category. This is not much, around 0.6% of the region’s population, and even less than the national average of 1%.
A lot in Lille, a little in Pas-de-Calais
So who are these rich Northerners? A large majority (76%) are people aged at least 50 whose children have left the family home. One less expense which automatically increases income. 70% of them are also people living as a couple. They are also not evenly distributed across the regional territory, with half living in the North, mainly in the European Metropolis of Lille. On the other hand, none or very few of these profiles are recorded in Pas-de-Calais.
If half of very high-income households (46%) in the region earn their crust through salaries or pensions, the other half do so as self-employed workers or annuitants. It is the households whose income comes from real estate that earns the most, on average 303,000 euros per year.
In summary, the sketch of an armored Northerner represents a person over 50 years old, married but without dependent children, living in Lille, and who has invested enough in real estate to earn his main income from it. You know what you have left to do.