Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
3,343 residents make their home in this town in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Mertzwiller’s strongest is schools: brevet results 5 points above the expected rate. It also does well on jobs & income (A−): 1.2 jobs per working resident; 8.3% unemployment. Health lags (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 7% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Mertzwiller has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Mertzwiller 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.
Mertzwiller has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Mertzwiller as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Dietrich, in Reichshoffen, 4.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mertzwiller.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Schools rank #3 of 77 in Bas-Rhin.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jacques TatiNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 40 | 100%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Bas-Rhin is 85 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 314 deaths in Mertzwiller from 2016 to 2025; there were 386, 23% more. The nearest emergency department to Mertzwiller is Centre hospitalier de Haguenau, 6.3 mi away. The town has 5 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
8.3% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Bas-Rhin’s towns (8.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 5.8% of Mertzwiller’s working residents to work at the census. Households’ median disposable income: €26,990 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
15% of residents are children under 15. The 15-to-24 age group: 11%, above Bas-Rhin’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Those 65 and older account for 24% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Mertzwiller | Bas-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bas-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
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
In all, 39 offenses reached the police record in Mertzwiller in 2025. Jobs outnumber working residents in Mertzwiller (1,750 to 1,450): it draws people in from around. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.1 violent offenses and 6 graded property crimes a year.
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, burglary, 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, 34.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
Other places to visit and museums in and near Mertzwiller. Best known first.
Nothing in Mertzwiller is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Mertzwiller.
Michel Wackenheim: Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mertzwiller | 3,343 | — | — | B− | — | D |
| Gundershoffen | 3,834 | 2.8 | A− | B+ | A+ | D |
| Val-de-Moder | 5,102 | 3.4 | B | B | A+ | D |
| Schweighouse-sur-Moder | 5,182 | 3.7 | A− | C− | A | B− |
| Reichshoffen | 5,418 | 4.8 | B− | B− | A | C− |
| Haguenau | 36,391 | 6.1 | B | C− | B− | C+ |
| Niederbronn-les-Bains | 4,347 | 6.5 | B | B | A− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mertzwiller has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A+, better than 98% of compared French towns and #3 of 77 in Bas-Rhin. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Mertzwiller is a commune of 3,343 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Niederbronn-les-Bains. 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.
