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A town of 1,280 in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Quend 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 8% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €3,259/m², a 70 m² home costs 9.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Quend does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Quend 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 Quend 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, 4.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Quend.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
After the care-home adjustment, Quend’s deaths ran at 108 per 100 expected, close to Somme’s towns (105) and above compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 182 residents of Quend died, against 169 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% 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
That puts Quend above both Somme’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). 7.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Quend | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.5% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 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.
The median sale price was €3,259/m², above both Somme’s towns (€1,799/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). In Quend, houses go for €3,023/m² and apartments for €3,696/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,023/m² | 134 |
| Apartments | €3,696/m² | 61 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 33 offenses in the graded categories in Quend in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual 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, 17.7% 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
On this, Quend is above both Somme’s towns (14.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Quend has 300 jobs for 400 working residents, 0.7 per worker. At the census, 11.0% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Quend 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 Quend 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quend | 1,280 | — | — | C− | C+ | D |
| Rue | 2,987 | 4.3 | C+ | C+ | B | B− |
| Verton Pas-de-Calais | 2,571 | 5.8 | — | C | — | C |
| Berck Pas-de-Calais | 12,951 | 6.2 | D− | C− | D− | D |
| Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 4,297 | 6.9 | D | C | C | D− |
| Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 3,342 | 9.5 | D | D | C+ | D |
| Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 5,129 | 11 | 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 Quend grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Quend is a commune of 1,280 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 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.