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The town has 1,084 residents and lies in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France.
Health lags (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It also trails on walkability — 34% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. It skews young: only 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Zudausques 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 Zudausques does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Zudausques 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.
Zudausques 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 Zudausques as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Abbaye Saint-Paul de Wisques, in Wisques, 2.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Zudausques.
4.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Pas-de-Calais’ towns (10.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €28,350 a year. At the census, 3.5% of working residents in Zudausques didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children are just over a fifth of the town. People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, below both Pas-de-Calais’ towns (12%) and compared French towns (11%).
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Zudausques | Pas-de-Calais median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pas-de-Calais median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 48 residents of Zudausques died, against 46 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% more. Average lifespans in Pas-de-Calais: 83.5 years for women, 77.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. The nearest emergency department to Zudausques is Centre hospitalier de la Region de Saint Omer, 5.3 mi away.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to B.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €8.25/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 22 homes were sold in Zudausques.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graded property crimes ran at 5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 3.4 (2023–2025 average). The commonest graded crime in Zudausques was other physical violence (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 family violence, sexual violence, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 100.0% of the index here.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Zudausques. Best known first.
Nothing in Zudausques is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Zudausques yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zudausques | 1,084 | — | — | B− | — | D |
| Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem | 5,843 | 3.2 | A− | C+ | A− | C+ |
| Lumbres | 3,579 | 3.4 | A− | A− | B+ | D |
| Wizernes | 3,321 | 4.3 | B | B− | A | D− |
| Éperlecques | 3,737 | 4.6 | — | B− | — | D− |
| Saint-Omer | 14,382 | 4.6 | C− | B− | D− | D |
| Longuenesse | 10,548 | 4.6 | C− | C+ | D | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Zudausques has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Zudausques is a commune of 1,084 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) · 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.