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A town of 1,270 in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
Hardinghen’s strongest is cost of living (B): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 1% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Walkability is weaker too: 75% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes go for a median €1,589/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Hardinghen 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 Hardinghen does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Hardinghen 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.
Hardinghen has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Hardinghen, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1988.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Hardinghen.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
271 deaths in Hardinghen between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 170: 60% above. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 101 per 100 expected, lower than Pas-de-Calais’ towns (115) yet higher than compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Hardinghen is Centre hospitalier de Calais, 9.7 mi away. At birth, a girl in Pas-de-Calais can expect 83.5 years and a boy 77.5 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Jobs based in Hardinghen number 300, against 550 residents in work (0.5 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €25,730 a year per consumption unit, above Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€22,665) and close to compared French towns (€25,970). Also worth knowing: 6.4% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 12th century. The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Hardinghen, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.91/m² a month, near Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€11.26/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €9.06/m² a month. The market in Hardinghen: 46 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,589/m² | 46 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 20%, above both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). Those 65 and older account for nearly a quarter of residents. 30% of adults hold a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Hardinghen | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.5% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pas-de-Calais median and France median: the median of compared communes
More of the graded crimes in Hardinghen were other physical violence than anything else (2025). The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 6.6 violent offenses and 5.1 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In 2025, 9 offenses were recorded here.
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 · For family violence, sexual violence, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 79.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Hardinghen has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Hardinghen yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Hardinghen has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Hardinghen grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Hardinghen is a commune of 1,270 people in the Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale. 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.