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1,442 residents make their home in this town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Where it does best is jobs & income — 0.2 jobs per working resident; 4.3% unemployment. Housing is within reach: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 33% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 99% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Dessenheim 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.
The one thing Dessenheim does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Dessenheim 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.
Dessenheim 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 Dessenheim as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Place d'Armes Général-de-Gaulle (anciennement Place Centrale), in Neuf-Brisach, 3.5 mi away.
4.2% 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 Dessenheim.
Degrees are held by just over a quarter of adults. 16% of residents are 65 or over, below both Haut-Rhin’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Half of Dessenheim is older than 42.2, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Dessenheim | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €12.48/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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
82 deaths in Dessenheim between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 84: 3% below. Adjusted for age and care homes, Dessenheim records 97 deaths per 100 expected, above both Haut-Rhin’s towns (92) and compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Dessenheim is Centre hospitalier Louis Pasteur Hospice Civil, 9.8 mi away. Women in Haut-Rhin live to 85.5 on average and men to 80.5 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
Households’ median disposable income: €29,200 a year per consumption unit. 5.0% of Dessenheim’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 89% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Dessenheim is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Dessenheim.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dessenheim | 1,442 | — | — | B+ | — | C |
| Volgelsheim | 2,720 | 3.9 | — | A− | — | C |
| Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine | 3,004 | 5.3 | — | C | — | B− |
| Horbourg-Wihr | 6,199 | 8.3 | A | C− | A+ | B− |
| Rouffach | 4,238 | 8.7 | A | B+ | C+ | B− |
| Colmar | 66,970 | 9.4 | C+ | C | C− | B− |
| Ensisheim | 7,306 | 10 | B− | C+ | B+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Dessenheim has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.9 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.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Dessenheim is a commune of 1,442 people in the Communauté de communes Alsace Rhin Brisach. 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.