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A town of 1,088 in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Clary has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 13 points below the expected rate. Its strongest is cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Clary does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Clary 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 Clary as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Borne ancienne, in Inchy, 4.6 mi away.
26% 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 Clary.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.5 mi to the nearest one. The nearest general lycée is 3.4 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François VillonNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 97 | 68%−13 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Clary have one GP on hand. The nearest emergency department to Clary is Centre hospitalier de le Cateau, 6.4 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 122 residents of Clary died, against 97 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% more. Women in Nord live to 84.5 on average and men to 78.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.77/m² a month, below both Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). House rents are put at about €7.26/m² a month. 43 houses and apartments changed hands in Clary from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,241/m² | 43 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
17% are under 15, about level with compared French towns (17%) and below Nord’s towns (19%). Degrees are held by nearly a quarter of adults. At 43.9, the median resident of Clary sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Clary | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
For its 500 residents in work, Clary has 250 jobs: 0.5 each. Unemployment stood at 11.3%, about level with compared French towns (10.1%) and below Nord’s towns (13.2%). 4.2% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.5 violent offenses and 12.5 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Police and gendarmerie recorded 5 offenses in Clary in 2025. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes here.
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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (62.6% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Clary is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Clary.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clary | 1,088 | — | — | B+ | — | D− |
| Caudry | 13,833 | 3.2 | D | B+ | D− | D− |
| Le Cateau-Cambrésis | 6,764 | 6.7 | D | A− | D− | D |
| Bohain-en-Vermandois Aisne | 5,605 | 6.8 | C+ | A+ | D | D− |
| Avesnes-les-Aubert | 3,562 | 8.2 | C+ | B+ | C+ | D |
| Solesmes | 4,142 | 8.6 | B | A | C− | D |
| Masnières | 2,689 | 8.8 | B+ | A− | B | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Clary has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 0% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Clary grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Clary is a commune of 1,088 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Caudrésis et du Catésis. 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 October 30, 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.