Besides location, the proportion of immigrants in an area is perhaps the most influential factor on the price of a home and, as their number increases, changes can happen quickly. In France, immigrants have become such a decisive factor in choosing a place to live that a special tool is now available to provide immigration statistics during the search for a new home.

A French real estate website with a corresponding Chrome browser extension offers an unusual set of data that property buyers may wish to consider before making an investment. According to the website, points are automatically assigned in photos from property listings, and based on these, buyers can then decide whether a purchase is advisable.

The service is free and is not supposed to collect any data from the user. Among the things it reports on in a given area are the number of migrants and religious groups, insecurity, asylum accommodations, problem neighborhoods, the number of mosques, de-Francization, and political correctness.

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For extremely multicultural cities, there is detailed data such as the trend of first names, which is used to categorize “African names,” “traditional French names,” “modern French names,” and “Muslim names.”

Paris also includes data on fraud rates, political leadership, and even news articles that may be relevant for security-focused property buyers.

French Areas Increasingly Rare

For French citizens who wish to live in traditional environments with lower immigration and crime, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find such places. The proportion of migrants continues to rise each year, and the government is encouraging immigration to rural areas.

Opinion polls have shown that about 50 percent of the French population wants to reduce immigration to zero. When it comes specifically to non-European immigration, opposition is even stronger. Other polls also show that about 75 percent of French people believe there are far too many immigrants in the country.

The service has provoked outrage among left-wing politicians, who have demanded it be banned on the grounds that it uses statistical data to measure the impact of immigration and the explosion in crime. At the same time, more and more French people are using the service.

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