Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 5,102 in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Val-de-Moder grades B overall: better than 59% of compared French towns, and #42 of 62 in Bas-Rhin. Its weakest subject is health (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. Its strongest is safety (A+): an average of 5.8 recorded violent incidents and 5 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 Val-de-Moder 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 3 historic monuments in Val-de-Moder: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 2 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1935.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Val-de-Moder.
Police and gendarmerie figures for Val-de-Moder show 53 offenses in 2025. The commonest graded crime in the town 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crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 11.2% of the index here.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.
The nearest emergency department to Val-de-Moder is Centre hospitalier de Haguenau, 8.2 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 444 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 539, 21% more. At birth, a girl in Bas-Rhin can expect 85 years and a boy 80.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. For a family doctor, residents of Val-de-Moder can choose among 6 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 6.1 mi off. For exam results, it comes #68 of 77 in Bas-Rhin.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Val de ModerNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 103 | 88%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Val-de-Moder holds 1,350 jobs; 2,250 of its residents are in work, so 0.6 jobs each. Bus, tram or train carried 4.2% of working residents in Val-de-Moder to work at the census. Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €26,860 a year.
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.
A house rents for an estimated €11.76/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
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
A tenth of its homes were built before 1919, higher than both Bas-Rhin’s towns (7.4%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Val-de-Moder: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 2 inscrit (the second level). The protected list starts in the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Just over a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, higher than Bas-Rhin’s towns (10%) and near compared French towns (11%). At 44.9, the median resident of Val-de-Moder sits in the middle of the age range. The under-15s are 16% of the population here.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Val-de-Moder | Bas-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 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 Val-de-Moder. Best known first.
The list names few of Val-de-Moder’s 3 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Cimetière (ancien ossuaire): Photo: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
7 notable people were born in Val-de-Moder.
Roger Heckel: Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Walter Biel: MGB, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jean-Claude Ernwein: Lucien.BJ, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-de-Moder | 5,102 | — | B | B | A+ | D |
| Mertzwiller | 3,343 | 3.4 | — | B− | — | D |
| Gundershoffen | 3,834 | 4.6 | A− | B+ | A+ | D |
| Schweighouse-sur-Moder | 5,182 | 5.6 | A− | C− | A | B− |
| Reichshoffen | 5,418 | 6.3 | B− | B− | A | C− |
| Ingwiller | 3,995 | 6.5 | B | C+ | B+ | C |
| Hochfelden | 4,038 | 6.6 | A | C | A | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #9 of 62 in Bas-Rhin.
They grade C, better than 25% of compared French towns and #68 of 77 in Bas-Rhin. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Val-de-Moder is a commune of 5,102 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Haguenau. 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.