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6,805 people live in this town in Nord, Hauts-de-France.
The picture is mixed. Where it falls short is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. With a C+ overall, Quesnoy-sur-Deûle is better than 38% of compared French towns and ranks #69 of 189 in Nord. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: three quarters of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes are strong: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 7.1% unemployment.
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.
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 Quesnoy-sur-Deûle 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Observatoire militaire 1914-1918, in Frelinghien, 2 mi away.
2.9% 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 Quesnoy-sur-Deûle.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €13.38/m² a month, higher than both Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 198 homes in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle. Houses made up 89% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,883/m² | 177 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 7.1%, below both Nord’s towns (13.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 6.7% of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle’s working residents to work at the census. Also worth knowing: at the census, 4.4% of working residents in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (60 places) counts its residents as Quesnoy-sur-Deûle’s; allowing for it, deaths were 3% below expected. 610 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 560: 9% above. 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Nearly a fifth of residents have reached 65. At 42.6, the median resident of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle sits in the middle of the age range. People aged 15 to 24 make up 11% of the town, about level with Nord’s towns (12%) and above compared French towns (11%).
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Quesnoy-sur-Deûle | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle was criminal damage (2025). Police and gendarmerie recorded 110 offenses locally in 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 5.4 violent offenses and 14.5 graded property crimes a year.
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 · The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Quesnoy-sur-Deûle. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la Poupée et du Jouet Ancien de Wambrechies4.9 km southeast, in WambrechiesMuseumMuseumEspace Gutenberg4.7 km southeast, in WambrechiesPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle.
Jean Dekyndt: Garitan, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quesnoy-sur-Deûle | 6,805 | — | C+ | D | B | C |
| Verlinghem | 2,682 | 2.2 | B+ | D− | B | A− |
| Frelinghien | 2,609 | 2.5 | B− | C− | A− | C |
| Wambrechies | 11,012 | 2.8 | B− | D | C+ | B− |
| Comines | 12,731 | 3 | C | C− | B− | C− |
| Pérenchies | 8,455 | 3.4 | C | D | C | C+ |
| Marquette-lez-Lille | 12,622 | 3.7 | C | D | C− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #57 of 189 in Nord. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 29 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Quesnoy-sur-Deûle grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Quesnoy-sur-Deûle is a commune of 6,805 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.
