Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 1,067 residents, it is a town in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
Guemps’s strongest subject is cost of living (B+): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is a third of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 45% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs and pay trail most towns (D): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 10.9% unemployment. Getting around depends on the car: 4% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
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 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Guemps 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 Guemps does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Guemps 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.
Guemps 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 Guemps as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Bastion Condette aussi dénommé bastion Royal, in Ardres, 4.4 mi away.
11% 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 Guemps.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Pas-de-Calais: 83.5 years for women and 77.5 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. 79 deaths in Guemps between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 54: 45% above. The town has one family doctor.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Half of residents lived on more than €24,550 a year per consumption unit, above Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€22,665) but below compared French towns (€25,970). Walking, cycling and public transport carried 3.1% of commuters at the census. The jobless rate is 10.9%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 13% of residents, above both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (12%) and compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by nearly a quarter of adults. Line up the people of Guemps by age and the one in the middle is 40.7.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Guemps | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 25% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pas-de-Calais median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Sales in Guemps from July 2023 to June 2026: 28 houses and apartments.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 5.5 mi to the nearest lycée. The nearest collège is 2.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Boris VianNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 145 | 87%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Guemps is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Guemps.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Guemps has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5 recorded violent incidents and 6.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B−, better than 54% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Guemps is a commune of 1,067 people in the Communauté de communes de la Région d'Audruicq. 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) · 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.