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A town in Nord, Hauts-de-France, home to 2,113 people.
Renescure’s best grade is for cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is its weak spot: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 8% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for jobs & income and C+ for walkability. Homes go for a median €1,628/m².
Renescure 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 Renescure does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Renescure 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.
Renescure has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Renescure, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Aïcha Goblet, born in 1894, is the one person born in Renescure before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Renescure.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €11.09/m² a month, lower than both Nord’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Renting a house costs an estimated €7.91/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 61 homes in Renescure.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,628/m² | 61 |
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 155 residents of Renescure died, against 169 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Renescure is Centre hospitalier de la Region de Saint Omer, 6.3 mi away. In Nord, women can expect to live 84.5 years and men 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Renescure, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
At the census, nearly one in ten commuters got to work without a car. Renescure holds 1,000 jobs; 900 of its residents are in work, so 1.1 jobs each. After tax and benefits, the median income is €25,320 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 17%, below Nord’s towns (19%) and close to compared French towns (17%). Renescure has a median age of 45. Just over a fifth of residents have reached 65.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Renescure | Nord median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Nord median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage in and near Renescure. Best known first.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Renescure, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Château de Zuthove: Photo: Pierre André Leclercq · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Château dit de Philippe de Comines: Photo: Velvet · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Renescure.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renescure | 2,113 | — | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Arques Pas-de-Calais | 9,431 | 3.3 | C− | B− | C− | D− |
| Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 4,859 | 4.4 | C+ | B− | B− | D |
| Longuenesse Pas-de-Calais | 10,548 | 5 | C− | C+ | D | D |
| Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 14,382 | 5.2 | C− | B− | D− | D |
| Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 3,321 | 6.4 | B | B− | A | D− |
| Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 5,843 | 6.5 | A− | C+ | A− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Renescure has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.9 recorded violent incidents and 4.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Renescure grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France
Renescure is a commune of 2,113 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur de Flandre. 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 October 30, 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.
