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Population 5,545: a town in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
What counts against it is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The overall grade lands at A−, #16 of 189 in Nord. That leaves it better than three quarters of compared French towns.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Baisieux does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Baisieux 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Baisieux as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Tumulus dit Mont des Tombes, in Sainghin-en-Mélantois, 2.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Baisieux.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €13.50/m² a month, above Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. Renting a house costs an estimated €12.16/m² a month. Also worth knowing: from July 2023 to June 2026, 169 homes were sold in Baisieux.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,935/m² | 164 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Half of residents lived on more than €29,280 a year per consumption unit, above both Nord’s towns (€23,900) and compared French towns (€25,970). Public transport took 7.2% of Baisieux’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Baisieux show 86 offenses in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.6 violent offenses and 10 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For armed robbery, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 2.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
People 65 and over make up 16% of the town, below both Nord’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for just over one in ten residents. Residents of Baisieux have a median age of 39.4.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Baisieux | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 17% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 47% | 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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 339 deaths in Baisieux from 2016 to 2025; there were 292, 14% fewer. Life expectancy at birth in Nord is 84.5 years for women and 78.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. There are 3 general practitioners 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
Heritage and museums in and near Baisieux. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de plein air de Villeneuve-d'Ascq4.3 km west, in Villeneuve-d'AscqBattlefieldBattlefieldBouvines4.3 km southwest, in CysoingChâteauChâteauChâteau de Montreul3 km west, in ChérengPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Baisieux is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Baisieux yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baisieux | 5,545 | — | A− | D | A− | B− |
| Willems | 2,941 | 1.1 | C+ | D | B | B+ |
| Chéreng | 3,078 | 1.4 | A | D | A | A− |
| Camphin-en-Pévèle | 2,518 | 1.7 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Toufflers | 3,957 | 3.2 | C− | C− | B− | C |
| Cysoing | 4,839 | 3.4 | A | C | A− | B+ |
| Sainghin-en-Mélantois | 2,840 | 3.7 | B− | D | B | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety, #20 of 189 in Nord. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 25 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Baisieux grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Baisieux is a commune of 5,545 people in the Métropole Européenne de Lille. 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
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.