Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,699 residents make their home in this town in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Glageon’s best grade is for cost of living (A−) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Schools are weaker too (D−): brevet results 4.3 points below the expected rate.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Glageon 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 Glageon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Glageon 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.
Glageon 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 Glageon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle Sainte-Hiltrude, in Liessies, 4.1 mi away.
25% 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 Glageon.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Nord: 84.5 years for women, 78.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. France’s death rates at each age would predict 119 deaths in Glageon from 2016 to 2025; there were 149, 25% more. The nearest emergency department to Glageon is Centre hospitalier de Fourmies, 3.2 mi away.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 3.4 mi away. The nearest collège is 1.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Denis SauratNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 43 | 77%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,129/m², below Nord’s towns (€1,810/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 52 homes in Glageon.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,129/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
19% of residents are 65 or over, near Nord’s towns (19%) and lower than compared French towns (22%). People aged 15 to 24 are 12% of the population. Half the people of Glageon are older than 40.5.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Glageon | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Half of residents lived on more than €21,310 a year per consumption unit, lower than both Nord’s towns (€23,900) and compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 5.1% of working residents in Glageon at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Glageon was criminal damage (2025). The 2025 count: 22 offenses here. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 7.5 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 11.
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 (36.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Glageon. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Trélon1.9 km east, in TrélonMuseumMuseumÉcomusée de l'Avesnois à Fourmies4.7 km southwest, in FourmiesMuseumMuseumMusée-atelier du verre de Trélon2.2 km east, in TrélonMuseumMuseumMusée du textile et de la vie sociale à Fourmies4.7 km southwest, in FourmiesChâteauChâteauChâteau de Pont-de-Sains3.6 km west, in FéronMuseumMuseumAMV - atelier-musée du verre - Site de l’écomusée de l’avesnois2.2 km east, in TrélonPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Glageon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Glageon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glageon | 1,699 | — | — | A− | — | D− |
| Trélon | 2,604 | 1.4 | D | B+ | C− | D |
| Fourmies | 11,449 | 2.8 | D | B+ | D− | D |
| Sains-du-Nord | 2,755 | 3.8 | C− | A− | C+ | D |
| Wignehies | 2,804 | 4 | C− | A | C− | D− |
| Anor | 3,099 | 4.7 | C+ | A− | B+ | D− |
| Avesnes-sur-Helpe | 4,012 | 8.1 | C+ | A | D− | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Glageon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 4% 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 Glageon grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Glageon is a commune of 1,699 people in the Communauté de communes du Sud Avesnois. 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.