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The town has 1,363 residents and lies in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Fort-Mahon-Plage is easy to get around without a car: 53% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The weak point is cost of living (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 11.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Crime is the sore point (C+): an average of 9.5 recorded violent incidents and 15.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior). Fort-Mahon-Plage 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 3 things Fort-Mahon-Plage does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Fort-Mahon-Plage 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.
Fort-Mahon-Plage has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Fort-Mahon-Plage as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle du Saint-Esprit, in Rue, 6.4 mi away.
4.9% 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 Fort-Mahon-Plage.
Just over a fifth of adults hold a degree, close to Somme’s towns (21%) and below compared French towns (30%). Retirement age and beyond: 45% of residents are 65 or older. The share aged 15 to 24 is 5.4%.
54% women, 46% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Fort-Mahon-Plage | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 8.9% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 5.4% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 45% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 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.
Apartments in Fort-Mahon-Plage sell for €4,256/m², houses for €3,630/m². For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €9.72/m² a month. 372 houses and apartments changed hands locally from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,630/m² | 160 |
| Apartments | €4,256/m² | 212 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Somme: 84 years for women and 78.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. Its care home for older people (79 places) counts its residents as Fort-Mahon-Plage’s; allowing for it, deaths were 5% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 358 residents of Fort-Mahon-Plage died, against 291 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 23% more. The nearest emergency department to Fort-Mahon-Plage is Centre hospitalier de L Arrondissement de Montreuil, 6.6 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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Fort-Mahon-Plage has 600 jobs for 400 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. The police record for Fort-Mahon-Plage lists 26 offenses in 2025. 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 other physical violence, 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, 16.9% of the index here. As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Median disposable income comes to €25,320 a year per consumption unit. Bus, tram or train carried 2.7% of working residents in Fort-Mahon-Plage to work at the census. At the census, 10.4% of working residents in Fort-Mahon-Plage didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Fort-Mahon-Plage 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 Fort-Mahon-Plage 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort-Mahon-Plage | 1,363 | — | — | C− | C+ | C |
| Berck Pas-de-Calais | 12,951 | 4.7 | D− | C− | D− | D |
| Verton Pas-de-Calais | 2,571 | 5.4 | — | C | — | C |
| Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 4,297 | 6.1 | D | C | C | D− |
| Rue | 2,987 | 6.5 | C+ | C+ | B | B− |
| Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 3,342 | 8.2 | D | D | C+ | D |
| Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 5,129 | 10 | B− | D | B+ | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.63/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Fort-Mahon-Plage grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Fort-Mahon-Plage is a commune of 1,363 people in the Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre. 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.