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1,614 residents make their home in this town in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is jobs & income: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 9.5% unemployment. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (D): 56% 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 · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Ruminghem 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 2 things Ruminghem does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ruminghem 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.
Ruminghem 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 Ruminghem as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, in Bourbourg, 6.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Museums in and near Ruminghem. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ruminghem.
3.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (10.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment stands at 9.5%. Median disposable income comes to €25,140 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 91 deaths in Ruminghem from 2016 to 2025; there were 97, 6% more. The nearest emergency department to Ruminghem is Centre hospitalier de la Region de Saint Omer, 11.7 mi away. 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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Children under 15 make up 19%, above both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). The 15-to-24 age group makes up 13% of residents. 27% of adults hold a degree.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ruminghem | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 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.
The median price, €1,789/m², comes from 43 sales of houses and apartments in Ruminghem from July 2023 to June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €9.06/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,789/m² | 43 |
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.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 8.3 mi away. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Sacré-Coeur PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 47 | 87%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The police record for Ruminghem lists 5 offenses in 2025. Violence against people ran at 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 4.4 (2023–2025 average). Of the graded crimes locally, family violence came up most often (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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary 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, 58.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Ruminghem is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Ruminghem as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruminghem | 1,614 | — | — | B+ | — | D |
| Watten Nord | 2,564 | 3 | B+ | A− | A− | D |
| Éperlecques | 3,737 | 3 | — | B− | — | D− |
| Audruicq | 5,309 | 3.9 | B | B+ | B | D |
| Bourbourg Nord | 6,931 | 6.2 | C+ | B− | C | D− |
| Ardres | 4,389 | 7.8 | B | B− | A− | D− |
| Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem | 5,843 | 7.9 | A− | C+ | A− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ruminghem has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B, better than 59% of compared French towns. 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 €1,789/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Ruminghem grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Ruminghem is a commune of 1,614 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) · 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.