Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
In Nord, Hauts-de-France, this town has 3,407 residents.
Good value, with catches elsewhere. Its weakest is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 16% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Landrecies’s overall grade is C, better than just over a third of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #78 of 189 in Nord. Where it does best is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here (A−): nearly three quarters of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
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).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Landrecies does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Landrecies 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 Landrecies 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, 6.6 mi away.
14% 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 Landrecies.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €8.83/m² a month, below Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. Houses were 99% of what sold. 100 houses and apartments changed hands in Landrecies from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,060/m² | 99 |
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.
Life expectancy at birth in Nord is 84.5 years for women and 78.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 459 residents of Landrecies died, against 346 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 33% more. The nearest emergency department to Landrecies is Centre hospitalier de le Cateau, 7 mi away. 4 GPs practise 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
2025 saw 131 offenses recorded in Landrecies. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 18.8 violent offenses and 13.2 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. More of the graded crimes in the town were family violence than anything else (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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 6.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Half of residents lived on more than €20,210 a year per consumption unit, below both Nord’s towns (€23,900) and compared French towns (€25,970). Public transport took 6.3% of Landrecies’ working residents to work at the census. At the census, 6.0% of working residents in Landrecies didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
The bac pass rate near Landrecies is 97.0%, higher than both Nord’s towns (90.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). For exam results, it comes #91 of 195 in Nord.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège DupleixNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 115 | 83%−4 pts |
| Lycée DupleixNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 99 | 97%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
12% of residents are 15 to 24, close to Nord’s towns (12%) and above compared French towns (11%). Over-65s are 22% of the population. Half the people of Landrecies are older than 44.2.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Landrecies | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 31% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Museums, heritage and gardens in and near Landrecies. Best known first.
MuseumMusée Ernest-Amasin townMuseumMuseumMusée Dupleix de Landreciesin townChâteauChâteauChâteau de Landreciesin townFortFortEnceinte de Landreciesin townFortFortTour de la Poudrièrein townMuseumMuseumMaison Forestière Wilfred Owen4.9 km west, in OrsPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Landrecies is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
8 notable people were born in Landrecies.
Joseph François Dupleix: Antoine Louis François Sergent dit Sergent-Marceau, Public domain · Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke: Guillaume Descamps, Public domain · Louis Toussaint Doutrelaine: Henri Thiriat / After Louis-Joseph Gemmi de Prévot, Public domain · Philippe Lamour: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landrecies | 3,407 | — | C | A+ | C− | D |
| Le Cateau-Cambrésis | 6,764 | 6.6 | D | A− | D− | D |
| Berlaimont | 3,159 | 7.6 | C− | B | B | C |
| Aulnoye-Aymeries | 8,612 | 8.6 | D− | B | D | D− |
| Le Quesnoy | 4,878 | 8.9 | C− | B+ | D | C |
| Solesmes | 4,142 | 9.4 | B | A | C− | D |
| Avesnes-sur-Helpe | 4,012 | 11 | C+ | A | D− | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety, #142 of 189 in Nord. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 36 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 58% of compared French towns and #91 of 195 in Nord. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Landrecies grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Landrecies is a commune of 3,407 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.