Wangenbourg-Engenthal’s strongest is cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is a third of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 13% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 32% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Wangenbourg-Engenthal 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.
Each subject compares Wangenbourg-Engenthal 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.
SafetyNot graded: over a quarter of the index would rest on the département’s average, where small counts aren’t published–
SchoolsNot graded: no collège with published results within 5 km–
Hazard riskNot graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas–
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Ancien monastère d'Obersteigen · Classé · Photo: Paralacre · CC0
Wangenbourg-Engenthal’s story
Wangenbourg-Engenthal in pictures
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Wangenbourg-Engenthal: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1862.
22% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
1862First protected: Ancien monastère d'Obersteigen
1898Most recently protected: Ruines du château Wangenbourg
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Wangenbourg-Engenthal.
HealthHealth D
More deaths than Wangenbourg-Engenthal’s ages would predict, 113 per 100 expected, above Bas-Rhin’s towns and compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 152 residents of Wangenbourg-Engenthal died, against 135 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% more. The nearest emergency department to Wangenbourg-Engenthal is Centre hospitalier Sainte Catherine de Saverne, 8.8 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Wangenbourg-Engenthal have one GP on hand. In Bas-Rhin, women can expect to live 85 years and men 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
+13%deaths against expected, after care homesDHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw113
Adjusted113
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Wangenbourg-Engenthal · 1.1 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
8.8 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Sainte Catherine de Saverne
8.8 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Sainte Catherine de Saverne
85 · 80.3
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Bas-Rhin, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Estimated advertised rents run lower in Wangenbourg-Engenthal than in Bas-Rhin’s towns or across compared French towns: €11.21/m² a month
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €10.75/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.
€11.21/m²estimated apartment rent a month
Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month
Wangenbourg-Engenthal€11.21/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Bas-Rhin median€13.84/m²
€11.21/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.81 to €14.27/m² a month)
€10.75/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€28,830
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income A−
Fewer people in Wangenbourg-Engenthal are out of work than in Bas-Rhin’s towns or across compared French towns: 4.8%
The median disposable income was €28,240 a year per consumption unit, about level with Bas-Rhin’s towns (€27,505) and above compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 5.1% of working residents in Wangenbourg-Engenthal didn’t travel to work at all. Public transport took 5.8% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
9%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving85%
Public transport6%
On foot3%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter0%
200
jobs based in Wangenbourg-Engenthal, 0.3 per working resident
4.8%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€28,240
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
5%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C
Walkability: better than 31% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Wangenbourg-Engenthal has fewer young adults than Bas-Rhin’s towns or compared French towns: 7.5% are 15 to 24
Just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Bas-Rhin’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Under-15s account for 14% of the population. Among adults, 27% have a degree.
51.4median age
Wangenbourg-EngenthalBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
26%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma15%
CAP or BEP34%
Baccalauréat19%
Higher education27%
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Wangenbourg-Engenthal: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Wangenbourg-Engenthal
Is Wangenbourg-Engenthal safe?
Wangenbourg-Engenthal has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.1 recorded violent incidents and 4.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
About Wangenbourg-Engenthal
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Wangenbourg-Engenthal is a commune of 1,327 people in the Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble. 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
Population
1,327 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble
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.
