Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,190 in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Chépy has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 13% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is schools (A+): brevet results 11 points above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Chépy 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Chépy as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Samson et cimetière, in Moyenneville, 4.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chépy.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The brevet pass rate near Chépy is 95.0%, above both Somme’s towns (90.6%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Gaston VasseurNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 87 | 95%+11 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.
On this, Chépy is above both Somme’s towns (105) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 118 residents of Chépy died, against 104 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
In the comparison, Chépy comes below both Somme’s towns (17.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). 11.0% of the labour force are out of work. Chépy has 350 jobs for 450 working residents, 0.8 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Chépy, that is below both Somme’s towns (12%) and compared French towns (11%). Children are 18% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Chépy | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.5% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 35% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 13% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Somme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Chépy sits below both Somme’s towns (€11.47/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) on this measure.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Chépy. Best known first.
Nothing in Chépy is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Chépy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chépy | 1,190 | — | — | B− | — | D |
| Friville-Escarbotin | 4,306 | 4.6 | C | B+ | D | D |
| Abbeville | 22,395 | 8.9 | D | B− | D | C− |
| Blangy-sur-Bresle Seine-Maritime | 2,819 | 9.3 | C | A− | C | D |
| Eu Seine-Maritime | 6,499 | 10 | C | B− | C− | C− |
| Mers-les-Bains | 2,540 | 11 | C− | C− | C | D |
| Le Tréport Seine-Maritime | 4,378 | 12 | C− | C | C− | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Chépy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 11 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 100% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Chépy is a commune of 1,190 people in the Communauté de communes du Vimeu. 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 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.