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A town of 1,769 in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Bousies’s strongest subject is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: 85% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 10% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 11.1% unemployment. It lags on health as well (D) — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Bousies 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 Bousies does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bousies 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.
Bousies 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 Bousies as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 4.6 mi away.
31% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bousies.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €1,196/m², lower than both Nord’s towns (€1,810/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Sales in Bousies from July 2023 to June 2026: 50 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,196/m² | 50 |
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.
Adjusted mortality in Bousies: 105 deaths for every 100 expected. 145 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 138: 5% above. Average lifespans in Nord: 84.5 years for women, 78.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
The median disposable income was €22,670 a year per consumption unit, below both Nord’s towns (€23,900) and compared French towns (€25,970). Of those in the labour force, 11.1% are unemployed. Walking, cycling and public transport carried 9.7% of commuters at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 are 11% of the population. 21% of residents are 65 or over, between Nord’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). The share of residents under 15 is 18%.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Bousies | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people ran at 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 9.9 (2023–2025 average). 2025 saw 20 offenses recorded in Bousies. 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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 31.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums in and near Bousies. Best known first.
Nothing in Bousies 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 Bousies 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bousies | 1,769 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Landrecies | 3,407 | 3.6 | C | A+ | C− | D |
| Le Cateau-Cambrésis | 6,764 | 4.7 | D | A− | D− | D |
| Solesmes | 4,142 | 5.8 | B | A | C− | D |
| Le Quesnoy | 4,878 | 6.9 | C− | B+ | D | C |
| Berlaimont | 3,159 | 9.1 | C− | B | B | C |
| Caudry | 13,833 | 9.4 | D | B+ | D− | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bousies has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Bousies grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Bousies is a commune of 1,769 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Mormal. 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.