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In Nord, Hauts-de-France, this town has 1,338 residents.
Aix-en-Pévèle’s strongest is schools (A+): bac results 1.6 points above the expected rate; brevet results 4 points above the expected rate. Work and incomes are strong: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 4.1% unemployment. Also worth knowing: it is hard to get around without a car (C). Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Aix-en-Pévèle has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Aix-en-Pévèle with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
Aix-en-Pévèle has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Aix-en-Pévèle as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Tour à diables, in Orchies, 3.4 mi away.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Aix-en-Pévèle is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Aix-en-Pévèle.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the vocational lycée within 5 km, 96% of 68 candidates passed the bac pro. 97.7% of candidates passed the bac at the lycées within 5 km of Aix-en-Pévèle, higher than both Nord’s towns (90.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Collège pupils travel 3.1 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Notre-Dame de la Providence PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 128 | 100%+4 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame de la Providence PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 86 | 99%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 16% of the town, lower than both Nord’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). A fifth of residents are children under 15. The share aged 15 to 24 is 11%.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Aix-en-Pévèle | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.6% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 18% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 48% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Nord, women can expect to live 84.5 years and men 78.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 84 deaths in Aix-en-Pévèle from 2016 to 2025; there were 68, 19% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Aix-en-Pévèle is Hopital de Denain, 12.4 mi away. There is one general practitioner locally.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
4.1% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Nord’s towns (13.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Walking, cycling and public transport carried one in ten commuters at the census. At the census, 4.6% of working residents in Aix-en-Pévèle didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
35 sales of houses and apartments in Aix-en-Pévèle, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,212/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,212/m² | 35 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Aix-en-Pévèle yet.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Aix-en-Pévèle is a commune of 1,338 people in the Communauté de communes Pévèle-Carembault. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aix-en-Pévèle | 1,338 | — | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Landas | 2,518 | 1.8 | — | B− | — | C |
| Nomain | 2,651 | 2.8 | — | B− | — | C |
| Orchies | 8,396 | 3.2 | B− | B− | C− | C− |
| Beuvry-la-Forêt | 2,861 | 3.3 | — | B | — | C+ |
| Genech | 2,803 | 4.2 | — | C | — | C |
| Lecelles | 3,046 | 4.7 | — | C− | — | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Aix-en-Pévèle has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.1 recorded violent incidents and 7.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 96% of compared French towns. The lycée stands out: 99% of 86 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Notre-Dame de la Providence in 2025, 2 points above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,212/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Aix-en-Pévèle grades C+ for cost of living.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.