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A town of 2,868 in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Gries has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is walkability (B+): 82% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 10% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Gries does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Gries 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.
Gries has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Gries as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Georges, in Haguenau, 4.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Gries.
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. From 2016 to 2025, 239 residents of Gries died, against 227 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% more. This Bas-Rhin town has 2 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Gries, 90.2% passed the bac, below both Bas-Rhin’s towns (92.4%) and compared French towns (92.9%). For collège, the closest is 2.2 mi away. Its schools’ results rank #72 of 77 in Bas-Rhin.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège André MauroisNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 166 | 79%−6 pts |
| Lycée André MauroisNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 203 | 95%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 7.9%, close to Bas-Rhin’s towns (8.7%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 9.8% of commuters travelled at the census. Jobs based in Gries number 400, against 1,350 residents in work (0.3 per worker).
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.
Renting a house costs an estimated €11.04/m² a month. 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
Just over a quarter of adults hold a degree, below both Bas-Rhin’s towns (32%) and compared French towns (30%). The age that splits Gries in two is 47.2. People 65 and over make up 21% of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Gries | Bas-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bas-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Graded property crimes ran at 6.3 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 2.5 (2023–2025 average). In all, 26 offenses reached the police record in Gries in 2025. Among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent was criminal damage (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, sexual violence, 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, 33.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Gries. Best known first.
Nothing in Gries 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 Gries 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gries | 2,868 | — | — | C+ | — | D |
| Weitbruch | 2,711 | 1.6 | — | A− | — | B |
| Bischwiller | 12,242 | 2.1 | C− | C+ | B− | C− |
| Weyersheim | 3,512 | 2.7 | A | C | A+ | C− |
| Oberhoffen-sur-Moder | 3,992 | 3.1 | B+ | C+ | A+ | C |
| Geudertheim | 2,727 | 3.4 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Haguenau | 36,391 | 4.1 | B | C− | B− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Gries has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 11 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 15% of compared French towns and #72 of 77 in Bas-Rhin. 95% of 203 candidates passed the bac at Lycée André Maurois 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.
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Gries is a commune of 2,868 people in the Communauté de communes de la Basse-Zorn. 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.