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This town in Somme, Hauts-de-France has a population of 4,179.
Plenty to like here, at a price. Salouël ranks #1 of 24 in Somme, with an A+ overall. Nationally, it does better than 95% of compared French towns. Safety is its strong suit (A+) — an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 8.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Prices are high against local incomes: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Salouël does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Salouël 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Salouël as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Musée de Picardie, in Amiens, 2.6 mi away.
3.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Salouël. Best known first.
AttractionCathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens4.9 km northeast, in Amiens
MuseumMusée de Picardie4.2 km northeast, in Amiens
MuseumMusée de l'Hôtel de Berny4.8 km northeast, in Amiens
MuseumMaison de Jules Verne4.4 km northeast, in Amiens
ZooZoo d'Amiens4.3 km northeast, in AmiensAttractionAttractionTour Perret4.9 km northeast, in AmiensPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Salouël.
In 2025, 44 offenses were recorded in Salouël. This Somme town ranks first of the 24 compared towns in Somme on the Safety Grade. Of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 10.6% of the index here. As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Salouël can choose among 5 GPs. Average lifespans in Somme: 84 years for women, 78.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. From 2016 to 2025, 166 residents of Salouël died, against 249 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 33% fewer.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,409/m², comes from 105 sales of houses and apartments in Salouël from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses in Salouël sell for €2,632/m² and apartments for €2,318/m². Of the homes sold, 55% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,632/m² | 58 |
| Apartments | €2,318/m² | 47 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Jobs based in Salouël number 1,650, against 1,650 residents in work (1 per worker). The median disposable income is €28,780 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 18.0% of working residents in Salouël didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
Results rank its schools #12 of 24 in Somme. The closest collège is 1.9 mi off. At the eight general lycées, 95% of 1,772 candidates passed the bac, a point below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège SagebienNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 204 | 96%+3 pts |
| Lycée Louis ThuillierNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 333 | 97%−1 pt |
| Collège Sainte-Clotilde PrivateBest against expectations: 7 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 50 | 98%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The under-15s are 11% of the population here. People 65 and over make up nearly a fifth of the town, lower than both Somme’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). Degrees are held by 43% of adults.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Salouël | Somme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 30% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 19% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 28% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 18% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Somme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Salouël 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 Salouël 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 →
It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 24 in Somme.
They grade B, better than 64% of compared French towns and #12 of 24 in Somme. 97% of 333 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Louis Thuillier in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,409/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Salouël grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Salouël is a commune of 4,179 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole. 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.