Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,288 residents make their home in this town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Housing is within reach (A): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 30% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools do well (B+): brevet results a point above the expected rate. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−) — 73% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs & income is weaker too: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 8.1% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Fréland 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 Fréland does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Fréland 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.
Fréland 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 Fréland as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Couvent d'Alspach, in Kaysersberg Vignoble, 2.4 mi away.
27% 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 Fréland.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €9.48/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
Unemployment stood at 8.1%, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (10.5%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Households’ median disposable income: €27,200 a year per consumption unit. No commute at all: 5.2% of working residents in Fréland at the census.
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.
Collège pupils travel 3.1 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges MartelotNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 87 | 91%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
A quarter of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). At 49.5, the median resident of Fréland sits in the middle of the age range. Degrees are held by 29% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Fréland | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Haut-Rhin can expect 85.5 years and a boy 80.5 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 118 deaths in Fréland between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 135: 13% below. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 87 per 100 expected, about level with compared French towns (88) and below Haut-Rhin’s towns (92). Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Fréland is Centre hospitalier Louis Pasteur Hospice Civil, 9.3 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Graded property crimes ran at 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 2.6 (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes in Fréland, the most frequent was armed robbery (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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Fréland. Best known first.
Nothing in Fréland is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Fréland yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fréland | 1,288 | — | — | A | — | B− |
| Orbey | 3,429 | 3.9 | — | B | — | A− |
| Kaysersberg Vignoble | 4,383 | 4.3 | A | B+ | B | C |
| Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | 4,851 | 5 | A | A | B+ | C |
| Ribeauvillé | 4,685 | 6.1 | A | B− | A− | B− |
| Turckheim | 4,139 | 7.1 | A | C | A− | B+ |
| Ingersheim | 4,774 | 7.6 | A− | C | A | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fréland has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B+, better than 75% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Fréland is a commune of 1,288 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Kaysersberg. 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.