Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,740 in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Soufflenheim grades A overall: better than 92% of compared French towns, and #9 of 62 in Bas-Rhin. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is safety (A+): an average of 4.4 recorded violent incidents and 7.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Soufflenheim 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Soufflenheim as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Unité de production potière de grès au sel - atelier Wingerter-Ruhlmann, in Betschdorf, 5.7 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Soufflenheim.
In 2025, 46 offenses were recorded in Soufflenheim. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (2025). Police and gendarmerie recorded 46 offenses in the graded categories locally in 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 · When other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (13.0% of the index here). That estimated share passes 10%, so treat this Safety Grade with more caution than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
School results put the town #11 of 77 in Bas-Rhin. General-bac pupils go 6.3 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Albert CamusNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 147 | 95%+4 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.
There are 5 general practitioners in Soufflenheim. Life expectancy in Bas-Rhin: 85 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 425 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 506, 19% more. The nearest emergency department to Soufflenheim is Centre hospitalier de Haguenau, 8.5 mi away.
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.
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
Soufflenheim holds 1,300 jobs; 2,150 of its residents are in work, so 0.6 jobs each. Half of residents lived on more than €26,700 a year per consumption unit, close to both Bas-Rhin’s towns (€27,505) and compared French towns (€25,970). Public transport took 2.9% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 9.7% of the town. Soufflenheim has a median age of 46.4 years. People 65 and over make up nearly a quarter of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Soufflenheim | Bas-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bas-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Other places to visit and museums in and near Soufflenheim. Best known first.
Nothing in Soufflenheim is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Soufflenheim.
Biréli Lagrène: Pastorius54, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soufflenheim | 4,740 | — | A | A− | A+ | D |
| Drusenheim | 5,388 | 4.6 | A | C+ | A+ | C+ |
| Oberhoffen-sur-Moder | 3,992 | 5.4 | B+ | C+ | A+ | C |
| Betschdorf | 4,231 | 5.4 | A | B+ | A+ | C |
| Bischwiller | 12,242 | 6.4 | C− | C+ | B− | C− |
| Herrlisheim | 4,694 | 7.3 | A | C | A+ | C |
| Haguenau | 36,391 | 7.9 | B | C− | B− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #12 of 62 in Bas-Rhin.
They grade A, better than 93% of compared French towns and #11 of 77 in Bas-Rhin. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Soufflenheim is a commune of 4,740 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Rhénan. 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.
