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A town of 2,284 in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Nesle has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D): brevet results 6 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €938/m², a 70 m² home costs 2.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes de l'Est de la Somme. Its strongest is walkability (A): 96% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 18% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Nesle does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Nesle 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Nesle as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhir dit La pierre qui pousse, in Eppeville, 5.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Nesle.
On this, Nesle is above both Somme’s towns (14.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Nesle has 1,400 jobs for 750 working residents, 1.8 per worker. The median disposable income is €22,030 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
In the comparison, Nesle comes below both Somme’s towns (90.6%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Louis PasteurNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 50 | 82%−6 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.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Nesle records 107 deaths per 100 expected, close to Somme’s towns (105) and above compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 466 residents of Nesle died, against 303 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 54% 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €938/m², below both Somme’s towns (€1,799/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €956/m² | 78 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Nesle, that is below both Somme’s towns (21%) and compared French towns (30%). People 65 and over make up 27% of the town.
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Nesle | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 35% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 14% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Somme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 45 offenses in the graded categories in Nesle in 2025. For armed robbery, 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, 10.0% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Nothing in Nesle is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Nesle.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
They grade D, better than 10% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €10.99/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Nesle grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Nesle is a commune of 2,284 people in the Communauté de communes de l'Est de la Somme. 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.