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Some 1,214 people live in this town, in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Cost of living is its strong suit — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Work and incomes lag: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 13.1% unemployment. It is hard to get around without a car (C): 93% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes change hands at a median €1,094/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Fontaine-au-Pire 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 Fontaine-au-Pire does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Fontaine-au-Pire 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.
Fontaine-au-Pire 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 Fontaine-au-Pire 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 Fontaine-au-Pire.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses made up 95% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. From July 2023 to June 2026, 43 homes were sold in Fontaine-au-Pire. That is the middle of 43 sales of houses and apartments here from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €1,810/m² for the median of compared towns in Nord.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,000/m² | 41 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 13.1%, about level with Nord’s towns (13.2%) and above compared French towns (10.1%). The median disposable income is €23,820 a year per consumption unit. No commute at all: 5.2% of working residents in Fontaine-au-Pire at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Fontaine-au-Pire, 89.5% passed the bac, close to Nord’s towns (90.4%) and below compared French towns (92.9%). A collège lies 1.3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MonnetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 168 | 79%+1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Joseph-Marie JacquardNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 162 | 94%+1 pt |
| Collège Jacques PrévertBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 110 | 75%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9% of the population. Ages in Fontaine-au-Pire split evenly at 42: half are older, half younger. People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town, above Nord’s towns (19%) but below compared French towns (22%).
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Fontaine-au-Pire | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 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.
The nearest emergency department to Fontaine-au-Pire is Etablissement Public de Sante de Cambrai, 6.9 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 148 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 221, 49% 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Over 2025, Fontaine-au-Pire logged 14 recorded offenses. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 8.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 10.7. The graded crime recorded most here was family violence (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 · When other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft 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 (49.5% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums, family days out and other places to visit in and near Fontaine-au-Pire. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la dentelle de Caudry2.6 km east, in CaudryChâteauChâteauChâteau de Ligny3.4 km south, in Ligny-en-CambrésisMuseumMuseumMusée des dentelles et broderies de Caudry2.6 km east, in CaudryTheme parkTheme parkLa petite fête foraine1.6 km east, in CaudryTheme parkTheme parkLoulou Jump Parc1.6 km east, in CaudryPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Fontaine-au-Pire 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 Fontaine-au-Pire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fontaine-au-Pire | 1,214 | — | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Caudry | 13,833 | 1.7 | D | B+ | D− | D− |
| Avesnes-les-Aubert | 3,562 | 4.4 | C+ | B+ | C+ | D |
| Escaudœuvres | 3,171 | 6.4 | B− | B+ | B− | C− |
| Solesmes | 4,142 | 6.5 | B | A | C− | D |
| Cambrai | 31,134 | 6.6 | C− | B | D | D |
| Iwuy | 3,403 | 7.4 | C− | A− | C | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fontaine-au-Pire has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C+, better than 38% of compared French towns. The lycée stands out: 94% of 162 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Fontaine-au-Pire grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Fontaine-au-Pire is a commune of 1,214 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 November 9, 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.