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A town of 2,050 in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Wisches has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 76% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% 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 Wisches does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Wisches 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 Wisches as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancien camp concentrationnaire de Natzweiler-Struthof, actuellement musée des Déportés, in Natzwiller, 4 mi away.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Wisches.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Bas-Rhin can expect 85 years and a boy 80.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 173 residents of Wisches died, against 152 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% more. The nearest emergency department to Wisches is Centre hospitalier Sainte Catherine de Saverne, 17.1 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Wisches can choose among 4 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.
For its 1,000 residents in work, Wisches has 600 jobs: 0.6 each. No commute at all: 2.7% of working residents in the town at the census. The median disposable income is €25,920 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 10.8 mi off. The nearest collège is 2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Haute BrucheNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 67 | 90%−1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel Haute BrucheNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 21 | 71%−10 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 15%, near Bas-Rhin’s towns (16%) and lower than compared French towns (17%). Wisches has a median age of 45.4 years.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Wisches | Bas-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 38% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 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.
A house rents for an estimated €8.93/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
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Wisches. Best known first.
Nothing in Wisches is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Wisches.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisches | 2,050 | — | — | B− | — | D |
| La Broque | 2,625 | 3.5 | D | C− | B | D− |
| Mutzig | 6,087 | 9.1 | B+ | C+ | B+ | C |
| Rosheim | 5,457 | 9.5 | A+ | C | A+ | B+ |
| Dorlisheim | 2,636 | 10 | A | C− | A | B− |
| Bischoffsheim | 3,342 | 11 | — | C | — | A− |
| Obernai | 12,587 | 11 | A | C− | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Wisches has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 6.5 recorded violent incidents and 8.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C, better than 26% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Wisches is a commune of 2,050 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de la Bruche. 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.