Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,198 in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Health is a strength (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 39% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car (C−). It also trails on cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 40% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B for schools and B for jobs & income.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Fortschwihr 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 Fortschwihr 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.
Fortschwihr 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 Fortschwihr as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église protestante, in Muntzenheim, 1.4 mi away.
4.8% 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 Fortschwihr.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 47 residents of Fortschwihr died, against 78 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 39% fewer. Life expectancy at birth in Haut-Rhin is 85.5 years for women and 80.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Fortschwihr is Centre hospitalier Louis Pasteur Hospice Civil, 5.3 mi away.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Unemployment stood at 8.3%, below both Haut-Rhin’s towns (10.5%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 6.1% of commuters got to work without a car. Jobs based in Fortschwihr number 150, against 550 residents in work (0.3 per worker).
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.
House rents are put at about €10.31/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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest general lycée is 4.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Alice MosnierNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 190 | 92%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
16% are under 15, close to Haut-Rhin’s towns (16%) and below compared French towns (17%). Aged 15 to 24: one in ten residents. Fortschwihr has a median age of 48.1.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Fortschwihr | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 6.5 violent offenses and 6.7 graded property crimes a year. Fortschwihr’s tally for 2025: 15 recorded offenses. More of the graded crimes here were other physical violence than anything else (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 · When family violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (57.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Fortschwihr is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Fortschwihr.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortschwihr | 1,198 | — | — | C | — | A+ |
| Horbourg-Wihr | 6,199 | 2.4 | A | C− | A+ | B− |
| Colmar | 66,970 | 4.6 | C+ | C | C− | B− |
| Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine | 3,004 | 6.4 | — | C | — | B− |
| Ingersheim | 4,774 | 6.5 | A− | C | A | C+ |
| Marckolsheim Bas-Rhin | 4,398 | 6.8 | A | B | B+ | C+ |
| Volgelsheim | 2,720 | 6.8 | — | A− | — | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fortschwihr has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B, better than 63% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Fortschwihr is a commune of 1,198 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Colmar Agglomération. 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 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.