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2,282 residents make their home in this town in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Where it does best is walkability — 88% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 22% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Prices are modest for what you get (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is its weak spot: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 17% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its schools fall short: brevet results 2 points below the expected rate.
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) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Poix-de-Picardie 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 Poix-de-Picardie does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Poix-de-Picardie 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.
Poix-de-Picardie has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
On the Culture ministry’s list, Poix-de-Picardie counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Poix-de-Picardie.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Somme, life expectancy at birth reaches 84 years for women and 78.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. From 2016 to 2025, 457 residents of Poix-de-Picardie died, against 304 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 50% more. The nearest emergency department to Poix-de-Picardie is Chu Amiens Sud, 14.1 mi away. The town has 4 family doctors.
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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Median disposable income is €23,890 a year for each consumption unit. 22.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, above both Somme’s towns (17.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Poix-de-Picardie holds 1,700 jobs; 850 of its residents are in work, so 2.1 jobs each.
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 estimated advertised rent is €11.16/m² a month, near Somme’s towns (€11.47/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house rents for an estimated €8.40/m² a month. The market in Poix-de-Picardie: 64 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,502/m² | 64 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 15.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège des FontainesNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 97 | 86%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Graduates make up 18% of adults. 25% of residents are 65 or over, close to Somme’s towns (25%) and above compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Poix-de-Picardie | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 40% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 13% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Somme median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Poix-de-Picardie is Église Saint-Denis. 6.7% of its homes were built before 1919, between Somme’s towns (6.1%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The police record for Poix-de-Picardie lists 37 offenses in 2025. Violence against people ran at 9.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10.3 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes here were family violence than anything else (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 · Small counts of other physical violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 11.1% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Poix-de-Picardie has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Denis: Photo: Claude Shoshany · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Poix-de-Picardie as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poix-de-Picardie | 2,282 | — | — | B+ | B | D− |
| Grandvilliers Oise | 2,786 | 7.5 | C− | B | D | C− |
| Crèvecœur-le-Grand Oise | 3,462 | 12 | A− | B− | B+ | A+ |
| Saleux | 2,739 | 13 | B | D | A | D |
| Salouël | 4,179 | 14 | A+ | C− | A+ | A |
| Ailly-sur-Somme | 3,003 | 14 | B+ | B− | A | D |
| Amiens | 136,449 | 16 | D | C− | D | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade C, better than 34% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Poix-de-Picardie grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Poix-de-Picardie is a commune of 2,282 people in the Communauté de communes Somme Sud-Ouest. 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 9, 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.