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1,237 residents make their home in this town in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Residents are healthier than most: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Pupils here do less well than most: bac results 17 points below the expected rate; brevet results 6.3 points above the expected rate. Cost of living is weaker too: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 38% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Dingsheim 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 Dingsheim does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Dingsheim 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.
Dingsheim 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 Dingsheim as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église d'Offenheim, in Stutzheim-Offenheim, 2.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dingsheim.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Bas-Rhin, life expectancy at birth reaches 85 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. 95 deaths in Dingsheim between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 142: 33% below. For a family doctor, residents of Dingsheim can choose among 3 GPs.
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.
For its 600 residents in work, Dingsheim has 150 jobs: 0.2 each. Unemployment stood at 5.4%, lower than both Bas-Rhin’s towns (8.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Bus, tram or train carried 6.2% of working residents in Dingsheim to work at the census.
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.
84.8% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Dingsheim, below Bas-Rhin’s towns (90.8%) and compared French towns (87.5%) alike. No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 3.3 mi away. For collège, the closest is 0.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de la SouffelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 126 | 94%−1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel privé Charles de Foucauld PrivateNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 68 | 72%−17 pts |
| Collège ÉrasmeBest against expectations: 21 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 81 | 91%+21 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
France’s property-sale records don’t cover Alsace and Moselle, which keep their own land register, so the Cost Grade here uses rent alone.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 15% of residents. The 15-to-24 age group: 8.1%, below both Bas-Rhin’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up 26% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Dingsheim | Bas-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.2% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 12% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 58% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bas-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and family days out in and near Dingsheim. Best known first.
FortFort Frère1.8 km southeast, in OberhausbergenFortFortFort Ducrot2.7 km northeast, in MundolsheimFortFortFort Foch1.6 km east, in NiederhausbergenFortFortFort Desaix4 km east, in MundolsheimFortFortFort Kléber4.6 km south, in WolfisheimTheme parkTheme parkPop Corn Labyrinthe3.4 km south, in OberhausbergenPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Dingsheim 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 Dingsheim 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dingsheim | 1,237 | — | — | C+ | — | A |
| Lampertheim | 3,457 | 1.8 | B+ | D− | A− | A |
| Oberhausbergen | 5,857 | 1.9 | B− | D− | B− | C+ |
| Mundolsheim | 5,322 | 2.1 | B− | D | C+ | A− |
| Wolfisheim | 4,217 | 3 | B+ | D | A+ | B− |
| Vendenheim | 6,137 | 3.2 | B+ | D | B+ | B+ |
| Oberschaeffolsheim | 2,597 | 3.2 | — | D | — | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Dingsheim has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.1 recorded violent incidents and 5.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 35% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Dingsheim is a commune of 1,237 people in the Communauté de communes du Kochersberg. 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) · 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.