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In Nord, Hauts-de-France, this town has 1,943 residents.
Marquette-en-Ostrevant’s best grade is for walkability: 97% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,233/m², so 70 m² costs 3.9 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut. Schools lag: bac results 10 points below the expected rate; brevet results 9.5 points below the expected rate. Jobs & income is weaker too — 0.3 jobs per working resident; 10.0% unemployment.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Marquette-en-Ostrevant 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 Marquette-en-Ostrevant does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Marquette-en-Ostrevant 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.
Marquette-en-Ostrevant has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Marquette-en-Ostrevant, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 2009.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Marquette-en-Ostrevant.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Marquette-en-Ostrevant, 67.0% of lycée candidates passed the bac, lower than both Nord’s towns (90.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). The bac pro: 67% of 142 candidates passed at the vocational lycée within 5 km. The nearest collège is 1.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de l'OstrevantNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 160 | 72%−10 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Pierre Joseph LaurentNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 142 | 67%−10 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.
Average lifespans in Nord: 84.5 years for women, 78.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Marquette-en-Ostrevant come to 101 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 156 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 242, 55% more. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Marquette-en-Ostrevant is Hopital de Denain, 6.2 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
18% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Nord’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up nearly a quarter of adults. Line up the people of Marquette-en-Ostrevant by age and the one in the middle is 39.5.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Marquette-en-Ostrevant | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Median disposable income is €23,150 a year for each consumption unit. Unemployment stood at 10.0%, lower than Nord’s towns (13.2%) and near compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 2.9% of working residents in Marquette-en-Ostrevant didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Marquette-en-Ostrevant, none of them classé, France’s highest protection. Protection here reaches back to the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
65 sales of houses and apartments in Marquette-en-Ostrevant, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,233/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,233/m² | 65 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.9 violent offenses and 8 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In all, 18 offenses reached the police record in Marquette-en-Ostrevant in 2025. Family violence topped the graded crimes in Marquette-en-Ostrevant (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.
Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Marquette-en-Ostrevant. Best known first.
Marquette-en-Ostrevant has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Martin: Photo: JackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Marquette-en-Ostrevant 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette-en-Ostrevant | 1,943 | — | — | B | — | C− |
| Bouchain | 4,113 | 2.2 | D | C+ | B | D |
| Aniche | 9,963 | 2.9 | D− | B | D | D− |
| Monchecourt | 2,516 | 3 | — | B− | — | D− |
| Abscon | 4,108 | 3.3 | C+ | B | A | D |
| Rœulx | 3,743 | 3.3 | C | B | A− | D− |
| Auberchicourt | 4,626 | 3.4 | C− | B− | B | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Marquette-en-Ostrevant has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 1% of compared French towns. 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 €1,233/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Marquette-en-Ostrevant grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Marquette-en-Ostrevant is a commune of 1,943 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut. 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.