Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 144 residents, it is a town in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Bus-la-Mésière is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents. One in ten homes here are second homes.
The one thing Bus-la-Mésière does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bus-la-Mésière as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine de Tilloloy (également sur commune de Laucourt), in Tilloloy, 1.2 mi away.
21% 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 Bus-la-Mésière.
People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, below both Somme’s towns (12%) and compared French towns (11%). Under-15s account for 20% of the population. Degrees are held by 23% of adults.
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Bus-la-Mésière | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Somme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Median disposable income comes to €25,500 a year per consumption unit. 12.0% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than Somme’s towns (14.3%) yet higher than compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 3.0% of working residents in Bus-la-Mésière didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in Bus-la-Mésière: 3 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Bus-la-Mésière 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 Bus-la-Mésière 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bus-la-Mésière | 144 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Roye | 5,833 | 5.4 | C− | B | D− | C− |
| Montdidier | 5,935 | 6.3 | D | B | D | D− |
| Rosières-en-Santerre | 2,894 | 12 | C | B | B− | C |
| Ribécourt-Dreslincourt Oise | 3,871 | 13 | D− | B | C− | D |
| Thourotte Oise | 4,463 | 13 | C− | B− | C− | B |
| Longueil-Annel Oise | 2,586 | 14 | D | B− | B− | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Bus-la-Mésière is a commune of 144 people in the Communauté de communes du Grand Roye. 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.