Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
3,579 people live in this town in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
Good value, with catches elsewhere. Schools do well: bac results 12 points above the expected rate; brevet results 5.4 points above the expected rate. It also does well on cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The catch is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Put together, the subjects come to an A− overall, ranking #4 of 120 in Pas-de-Calais. Nationally, it does better than 81% of compared French towns.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Lumbres does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lumbres 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 Culture ministry lists no building in Lumbres as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Esquerdes, 2.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lumbres.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the vocational lycée within 5 km, 91% of 44 candidates passed the bac pro. School results put the town #6 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. General-bac pupils go 5.9 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Notre-Dame PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 70 | 97%+4 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Bernard ChochoyNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 44 | 91%+12 pts |
| Collège Albert CamusBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 180 | 98%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Lumbres records 105 deaths per 100 expected. 333 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 319: 5% above. Also worth knowing: in Pas-de-Calais, women can expect to live 83.5 years and men 77.5 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. There are 3 general practitioners locally.
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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €1,434/m², below Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€1,668/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. The sales split: 97% houses, the rest apartments. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 116 homes in Lumbres.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,475/m² | 113 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stands at 11.5%. Half of residents lived on more than €22,170 a year per consumption unit, close to Pas-de-Calais’ towns (€22,665) and below compared French towns (€25,970). For its 1,400 residents in work, Lumbres has 2,000 jobs: 1.4 each.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graded property crimes ran at 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 11.6 (2023–2025 average). Lumbres’s tally for 2025: 65 recorded offenses. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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 burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 7.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Line up the people of Lumbres by age and the one in the middle is 42.9. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. People 65 and over make up 22% of the town, about level with compared French towns (22%) and above Pas-de-Calais’ towns (20%).
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Lumbres | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pas-de-Calais median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Lumbres is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Lumbres.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumbres | 3,579 | — | A− | A− | B+ | D |
| Wizernes | 3,321 | 5 | B | B− | A | D− |
| Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem | 5,843 | 5.8 | A− | C+ | A− | C+ |
| Longuenesse | 10,548 | 6.5 | C− | C+ | D | D |
| Blendecques | 4,859 | 6.9 | C+ | B− | B− | D |
| Saint-Omer | 14,382 | 7 | C− | B− | D− | D |
| Éperlecques | 3,737 | 7.9 | — | B− | — | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #31 of 120 in Pas-de-Calais.
They grade A+, better than 98% of compared French towns and #6 of 123 in Pas-de-Calais. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Lumbres grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Lumbres is a commune of 3,579 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Lumbres. 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 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.