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Home to 1,045 people, this town lies in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Pupils here do better than most: brevet results a point above the expected rate. Work and incomes lag: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 8.9% unemployment. At the median price of €1,744/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur de Flandre. The rest of its grades are middling: C+ for health and B− for walkability.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Bavinchove 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.
The one thing Bavinchove does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bavinchove 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.
Bavinchove 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 Bavinchove as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château Vandamme, in Cassel, 1.9 mi away.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Bavinchove. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bavinchove.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest collège is 2 mi away. The closest lycée for the general bac is 4.9 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Robert le FrisonNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 131 | 92%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
One in ten residents are 15 to 24, lower than both Nord’s towns (12%) and compared French towns (11%). Those 65 and older account for 17% of residents. Typical age in Bavinchove: 40.1, the median.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Bavinchove | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,744/m², comes from 38 sales of houses and apartments in Bavinchove from July 2023 to June 2026. The sales split: 97% houses, the rest apartments. A house rents for an estimated €8.90/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,765/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Bavinchove have one GP on hand. In Nord, women can expect to live 84.5 years and men 78.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 60 residents of Bavinchove died, against 66 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 9% fewer.
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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A−.
At the census, 7.7% of working residents in Bavinchove went to work by public transport. Half of residents lived on more than €24,390 a year per consumption unit, close to Nord’s towns (€23,900) and below compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 9.8 violent offenses and 9.7 graded property crimes a year. Bavinchove’s tally for 2025: 8 recorded offenses. Among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 70.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Bavinchove 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 Bavinchove 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bavinchove | 1,045 | — | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Hazebrouck | 21,912 | 5.5 | B− | B− | B− | C− |
| Steenvoorde | 4,332 | 6 | A− | B | B+ | C− |
| Wormhout | 5,584 | 6.9 | A | C+ | B+ | B− |
| Morbecque | 2,573 | 7.3 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Arques Pas-de-Calais | 9,431 | 7.4 | C− | B− | C− | D− |
| Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 14,382 | 8.6 | C− | B− | D− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bavinchove has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A−, better than 78% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,744/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Bavinchove grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Bavinchove is a commune of 1,045 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur de Flandre. 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.