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With 1,986 residents, it is a town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Homes are affordable: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 29% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is a strength too (A−): 93% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The weak point is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 9% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Bitschwiller-lès-Thann 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 Bitschwiller-lès-Thann 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.
Bitschwiller-lès-Thann has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bitschwiller-lès-Thann as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ruines du château d'Engelbourg, in Thann, 1.4 mi away.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Bitschwiller-lès-Thann is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bitschwiller-lès-Thann.
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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 339 residents of Bitschwiller-lès-Thann died, against 244 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 39% more. Average lifespans in Haut-Rhin: 85.5 years for women, 80.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. The nearest emergency department to Bitschwiller-lès-Thann is Centre hospitalier de Guebwiller, 8.3 mi away. There are 2 general practitioners here.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Half of residents lived on more than €25,700 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Haut-Rhin’s towns (€27,690). At the census, 7.1% of working residents in Bitschwiller-lès-Thann went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
9.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24. People 65 and over make up 25% of the town, higher than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Children are 16% of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Bitschwiller-lès-Thann | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The town’s pupils have a collège 1.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Rémy FaeschNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 71 | 80%−4 pts |
| Lycée Scheurer KestnerNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 228 | 97%±0 pts |
| Collège Charles WalchBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 105 | 90%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 6.3 violent offenses and 7.7 graded property crimes a year. All told, Bitschwiller-lès-Thann had 33 recorded offenses in 2025. Also worth knowing: in 2025, family violence led the graded crimes locally.
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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 32.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Bitschwiller-lès-Thann. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bitschwiller-lès-Thann yet.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Bitschwiller-lès-Thann is a commune of 1,986 people in the Communauté de communes de Thann-Cernay. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitschwiller-lès-Thann | 1,986 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Thann | 7,762 | 2 | B− | B+ | B− | D |
| Vieux-Thann | 2,866 | 2.8 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Cernay | 12,057 | 4.8 | B− | B− | B− | D− |
| Masevaux-Niederbruck | 3,594 | 5.5 | A+ | A | A− | C− |
| Wittelsheim | 10,645 | 7.6 | C+ | C+ | B+ | C− |
| Soultz-Haut-Rhin | 7,012 | 7.8 | A | B+ | A− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bitschwiller-lès-Thann has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 49% of compared French towns. 97% of 228 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Scheurer Kestner in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
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 November 4, 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.