Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,803 people call this town in Nord, Hauts-de-France home.
Quiévy’s best grade is for cost of living (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is health (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 12.6% unemployment. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for schools and C+ for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Quiévy 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 2 things Quiévy does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Quiévy 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.
Quiévy 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 Quiévy as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Borne ancienne, in Inchy, 3.9 mi away.
27% 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 Quiévy.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Quiévy is Centre hospitalier de le Cateau, 6.3 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 175 residents of Quiévy died, against 131 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 33% more. 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.
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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €9.45/m² a month, below Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €8.30/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 71 homes in Quiévy.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €991/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 20% of residents. 18% of residents are 65 or over, about level with Nord’s towns (19%) and below compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Quiévy by age and the one in the middle is 41.4.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Quiévy | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
12.6% of the labour force were unemployed, near Nord’s towns (13.2%) and higher than compared French towns (10.1%). After tax and benefits, the median income is €22,850 a year per consumption unit.
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 town’s pupils have a collège 2.6 mi away. At the general lycée, 94% of 162 candidates passed the bac, a point above the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul LangevinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 133 | 88%+3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Joseph-Marie JacquardNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 162 | 94%+1 pt |
| Collège Jacques PrévertBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 110 | 75%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Graded property crimes ran at 9.4 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 7.6 (2023–2025 average). Quiévy’s tally for 2025: 18 recorded offenses. The commonest graded crime in the town was criminal damage (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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 37.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and family days out in and near Quiévy. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la dentelle de Caudry4.6 km south, in CaudryMuseumMuseumMusée des dentelles et broderies de Caudry4.6 km south, in CaudryTheme parkTheme parkLa petite fête foraine4.6 km southwest, in CaudryTheme parkTheme parkLoulou Jump Parc4.6 km southwest, in CaudryMuseumMuseumMaison du Mulquinier4.8 km northwest, in Avesnes-les-AubertPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Quiévy is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
4 notable people were born in Quiévy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quiévy | 1,803 | — | — | A− | — | D− |
| Avesnes-les-Aubert | 3,562 | 2.9 | C+ | B+ | C+ | D |
| Caudry | 13,833 | 3 | D | B+ | D− | D− |
| Solesmes | 4,142 | 3.4 | B | A | C− | D |
| Haspres | 2,626 | 6.6 | C− | B+ | B+ | D |
| Iwuy | 3,403 | 6.6 | C− | A− | C | D− |
| Le Cateau-Cambrésis | 6,764 | 6.7 | D | A− | D− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Quiévy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 47% 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 Quiévy grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Quiévy is a commune of 1,803 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Caudrésis et du Catésis. 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.