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1,772 residents make their home in this town in Somme, Hauts-de-France.
Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a weak point (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 26% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are on the low side: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 25.0% unemployment. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for safety, B− for schools and B for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Saint-Ouen 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 one thing Saint-Ouen does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Ouen 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.
Saint-Ouen has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Ouen as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne église abbatiale, actuellement église paroissiale, in Berteaucourt-les-Dames, 1.9 mi away.
28% 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 Saint-Ouen.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Saint-Ouen is Chu Amiens Sud, 12.9 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 156 residents of Saint-Ouen died, against 124 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% more. 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. The town has 6 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €11.05/m² a month, about level with Somme’s towns (€11.47/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house rents for an estimated €7.79/m² a month. The market in Saint-Ouen: 71 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,024/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24, near Somme’s towns (12%) and higher than compared French towns (11%). The under-15s are 20% of the population here. Retirement age and beyond: 19% of residents are 65 or older.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Ouen | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 34% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 9.6% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Somme median and France median: the median of compared communes
On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 7.0% of commuters travelled at the census. The median disposable income was €20,700 a year per consumption unit, below Somme’s towns (€22,835) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike.
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.
The nearest general lycée is 12.1 mi away. For collège, the closest is 2.5 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Notre-Dame PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 77 | 100%+13 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Alfred ManessierNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 48 | 77%−6 pts |
| Collège du Val de NièvreBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 72 | 79%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The 2025 count: 28 offenses in Saint-Ouen. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 10.4 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 11.3. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in the town.
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, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 15.9% 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.
Heritage and family days out in and near Saint-Ouen. Best known first.
Nothing in Saint-Ouen is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Saint-Ouen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ouen | 1,772 | — | — | B+ | B− | D− |
| Flixecourt | 3,221 | 2.4 | C | B+ | C | D |
| Ailly-sur-Somme | 3,003 | 8.4 | B+ | B− | A | D |
| Amiens | 136,449 | 13 | D | C− | D | C− |
| Doullens | 5,751 | 13 | C+ | A− | D− | D |
| Rivery | 3,636 | 13 | B− | C− | C | B+ |
| Salouël | 4,179 | 13 | A+ | C− | A+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade B−, better than 46% 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 Saint-Ouen grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Saint-Ouen is a commune of 1,772 people in the Communauté de communes Nièvre et 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.