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Some 5,683 people live in this town, in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
A town of contrasts. Dainville grades B overall, better than 58% of compared French towns, and ranks #18 of 120 in Pas-de-Calais. The drawback is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 16% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Cost of living is weaker too: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · 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 Dainville 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 2 things Dainville does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Dainville as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Citadelle d'Arras, in Achicourt, 1.3 mi away.
3.2% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Dainville is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dainville.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 1,165 residents of Dainville died, against 786 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 48% more. Weighed against its ages and care homes, Dainville records 116 deaths per 100 expected. In Pas-de-Calais, life expectancy at birth reaches 83.5 years for women and 77.5 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. The town has 7 family doctors.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Half of residents lived on more than €27,890 a year per consumption unit, above Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€22,665) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. At the census, 3.5% of working residents in Dainville didn’t travel to work at all. Bus, tram or train carried nearly a tenth of working residents in Dainville to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The under-15s are 15% of the population here. People aged 15 to 24 make up 9.6% of the town, lower than both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (12%) and compared French towns (11%). Graduates make up just over a third of adults.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Dainville | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pas-de-Calais median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 86% passed the bac pro, of 496 candidates at 3 lycées. Ranked by results, schools here are #39 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. At the four general lycées, 96% of 1,536 candidates passed the bac, at the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège DiderotNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 141 | 91%+3 pts |
| Lycée RobespierreNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 309 | 98%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jacques Le CaronBest against expectations: 11 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 73 | 86%+11 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,048/m²: 173 houses and apartments sold in Dainville between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses accounted for 91% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,977/m² | 157 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 7.2 violent offenses and 14.6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In all, 129 offenses reached the police record in Dainville in 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 · When armed robbery and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (1.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Dainville. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras3.3 km east, in Arras
AbbeyAbbaye Saint-Vaast3.3 km east, in Arras
FortCitadelle d'Arras2.1 km east, in Arras
MuseumCarrière Wellington3.9 km east, in ArrasAttractionAttractionBeffroi d'Arras3.5 km east, in ArrasPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
2 notable people were born in Dainville.
René Fatoux: Claudette Fatoux, CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Dainville is a commune of 5,683 people in the Communauté urbaine d'Arras. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dainville | 5,683 | — | B | C | B− | D |
| Arras | 42,875 | 1.8 | C− | C | D | D |
| Achicourt | 7,873 | 1.9 | C | C+ | C | D |
| Sainte-Catherine | 3,471 | 2.2 | A− | C | B+ | C |
| Anzin-Saint-Aubin | 2,833 | 2.3 | A | C− | A | B |
| Beaurains | 5,559 | 2.9 | C+ | C+ | C+ | C− |
| Saint-Nicolas | 4,494 | 2.9 | C | B− | C− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #40 of 120 in Pas-de-Calais. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 29 burglaries and 53 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 73% of compared French towns and #39 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. 98% of 309 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Robespierre in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,048/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Dainville grades C for cost of living.
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.
