Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 6,525 people, lies in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Estaires’s weakest is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 4% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The town’s overall grade, C, puts it better than a quarter of compared French towns. That places it #97 of 189 in Nord. It also trails on jobs & income: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 11.4% unemployment. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: just over four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €2,031/m² costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Flandre Lys.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · 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.
Each subject compares Estaires 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Estaires as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Amé, in Lestrem, 2.2 mi away.
3.9% 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 Estaires.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Estaires records 104 deaths per 100 expected, close to Nord’s towns (105) and above compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 498 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 616, 24% more. The nearest emergency department to Estaires is Centre hospitalier D Armentieres, 7.1 mi away. Average lifespans in Nord: 84.5 years for women, 78.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 census found nearly one in ten commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Just over a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, below Nord’s towns (13.2%) but above compared French towns (10.1%). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €24,530 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In all, 152 offenses reached the police record in Estaires in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 10 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 14.4. The graded crime recorded most here 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 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, 0.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Children under 15 make up 19%, about level with Nord’s towns (19%) and above compared French towns (17%). Residents of Estaires have a median age of 41.8. Nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Estaires | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 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, €2,031/m², comes from 209 sales of houses and apartments in Estaires from July 2023 to June 2026. Advertised rents are estimated at €11.25/m² a month, about level with Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Estimated advertised rent for houses: €8.67/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,013/m² | 194 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Estaires is 93.0%, above Nord’s towns (90.4%) and close to compared French towns (92.9%). Results rank its schools #102 of 195 in Nord.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Henri DurezNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 102 | 79%−5 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Val de LysNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 148 | 95%−1 pt |
| Collège privé Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc PrivateBest against expectations: 8 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 67 | 100%+8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Estaires is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
5 notable people were born in Estaires.
Henri Delassus: Titsarosal, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estaires | 6,525 | — | C | B− | C+ | D |
| La Gorgue | 5,616 | 0.8 | B− | B | B+ | C− |
| Lestrem Pas-de-Calais | 5,009 | 2.8 | B+ | B− | A | C− |
| Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 3,981 | 3 | A+ | B | A | A− |
| Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 5,044 | 3.1 | A | C+ | B+ | B |
| Merville | 9,808 | 3.6 | C− | B+ | C− | D |
| Steenwerck | 3,450 | 4 | A− | B− | A− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #93 of 189 in Nord. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 52 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 54% of compared French towns and #102 of 195 in Nord. 95% of 148 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Val de Lys in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. 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 €2,031/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Estaires grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Estaires is a commune of 6,525 people in the Communauté de communes Flandre Lys. 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.