Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,156 residents make their home in this town in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
Bourlon’s best grade is for cost of living (A) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: C+ for schools and B− 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) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Bourlon 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 Bourlon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bourlon 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.
Bourlon 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 Bourlon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Tour des Arquets, in Cambrai, 4.7 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bourlon.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 82 deaths in Bourlon from 2016 to 2025; there were 93, 14% more. Adjusted mortality in the town: 114 deaths for every 100 expected. Women in Pas-de-Calais live to 83.5 on average and men to 77.5 (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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
At the median, a home went for €1,150/m², below both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€1,668/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses were 95% of what sold. The market in Bourlon: 39 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,297/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Joseph PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 53 | 96%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 30% of adults, higher than Pas-de-Calais’ towns (22%) and near compared French towns (30%). Line up the people of Bourlon by age and the one in the middle is 43.4. Retirement age and beyond: a fifth of residents are 65 or older.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Bourlon | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pas-de-Calais median and France median: the median of compared communes
Half of residents lived on more than €25,910 a year per consumption unit, higher than Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€22,665) and near compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 5.3% of working residents in Bourlon didn’t travel to work at all. Public transport took 2.3% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Bourlon was other physical violence (2025). 2025 saw 18 offenses recorded in the town. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 10.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 12.2.
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 family 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, 33.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Bourlon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bourlon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourlon | 1,156 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Proville Nord | 3,206 | 4.2 | B+ | B+ | A− | C− |
| Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 4,012 | 4.6 | B | A− | B− | C+ |
| Cambrai Nord | 31,134 | 5.5 | C− | B | D | D |
| Masnières Nord | 2,689 | 6.1 | B+ | A− | B | D |
| Escaudœuvres Nord | 3,171 | 6.7 | B− | B+ | B− | C− |
| Arleux Nord | 3,125 | 7 | C | C+ | C+ | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bourlon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C+, better than 40% 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 Bourlon grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Bourlon is a commune of 1,156 people in the Communauté de communes Osartis Marquion. 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.