Orange · report
Renovation in Orange
In 2025, 16% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 16%
Homes authorised in Orange: new buildings and existing ones
Dwellings authorised each year, by the year the permit was granted: in new buildings, and by works on existing buildings (conversions, extensions, changes of use). SDES Sitadel.
- Existing buildings
- New buildings
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| Year | New buildings | Existing buildings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | 14 | 90 |
| 2024 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2023 | 22 | 19 | 41 |
| 2022 | 194 | 33 | 227 |
| 2021 | 47 | 21 | 68 |
| 2020 | 217 | 9 | 226 |
| 2019 | 207 | 23 | 230 |
| 2018 | 35 | 77 | 112 |
| 2017 | 45 | 5 | 50 |
| 2016 | 117 | 3 | 120 |
| 2015 | 68 | 40 | 108 |
| 2014 | 145 | 5 | 150 |
| 2013 | 127 | 1 | 128 |
Only permits that create dwellings are listed, so renovation that adds no home (refurbishing, insulating, re-roofing) is not counted. A permit is permission to build, not a finished home. The current year is left out until it is complete.
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At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €207,990. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €810 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 21%
- Payment, one income
- 43%
Owning a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at apartments' median sale price; rent is the asking rent. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
- Rent per month
- €1,009
- Owning per month
- €589
Figures for Vaucluse: Orange has no reliable figures of its own.
4.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,546
In 2022 the population grew by 349 while 76 homes were started: 4.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 4.6
- Population change, 2022
- +349
9.5% of the 15,820 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.5%
- Empty homes
- 1,497