Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 8,455 people, lies in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Pérenchies’s grades pull in different directions. Prices are high against local incomes: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Safety lags (C): an average of 5.4 recorded violent incidents and 21.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It is easy to get around without a car (A): 94% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 24% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The overall grade lands at C, #79 of 189 in Nord. Set against the rest, it does better than just over a third of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for schools and B− for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
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 Pérenchies 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 Pérenchies as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Propriété dite "Ferme des Templiers", in Verlinghem, 1 mi away.
2.4% 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 Pérenchies.
Unemployment stood at 8.4%, below Nord’s towns (13.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Walking, cycling and public transport carried 23.6% of commuters at the census. 2,350 jobs are based in Pérenchies, for 3,850 working residents (0.6 per worker). Median disposable income comes to €26,590 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €2,646/m², above both Nord’s towns (€1,810/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses in Pérenchies sell for €2,531/m² and apartments for €3,190/m². House rents are put at about €11.78/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,531/m² | 249 |
| Apartments | €3,190/m² | 56 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Pérenchies show 276 offenses in 2025. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 0.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nearly a fifth of residents have reached 65. The 15-to-24 age group: 12%, near Nord’s towns (12%) and higher than compared French towns (11%). Line up the people of Pérenchies by age and the one in the middle is 40.5.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Pérenchies | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 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.
At birth, a girl in Nord can expect 84.5 years and a boy 78.8 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 742 residents of Pérenchies died, against 668 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% more. There are 13 general practitioners here.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 75% passed the bac pro, of 181 candidates at 2 lycées. The brevet pass rate near Pérenchies is 92.2%, above Nord’s towns (85.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%) alike. Schools rank #88 of 195 in Nord.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jacques MonodNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 71 | 90%−2 pts |
| Lycée Jean Prouvé - LommeNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 86 | 97%+4 pts |
| Collège Jean JaurèsBest against expectations: 21 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 114 | 90%+21 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Pérenchies. Best known first.
Nothing in Pérenchies is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Pérenchies.
Pierre Bonte: ErioTac France, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pérenchies | 8,455 | — | C | D | C | C+ |
| Capinghem | 2,728 | 1.4 | B− | D | C+ | B |
| Verlinghem | 2,682 | 1.6 | B+ | D− | B | A− |
| Lambersart | 27,090 | 2.8 | B | D− | C | A− |
| Frelinghien | 2,609 | 2.9 | B− | C− | A− | C |
| Houplines | 7,921 | 2.9 | C | C | C+ | C− |
| Sequedin | 4,675 | 3 | C+ | D | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C for safety, #110 of 189 in Nord. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 65 burglaries and 77 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 59% of compared French towns and #88 of 195 in Nord. The lycée stands out: 97% of 86 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Jean Prouvé - Lomme in 2025, 4 points above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Pérenchies grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Pérenchies is a commune of 8,455 people in the Métropole Européenne de Lille. 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.
