Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,058 in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Metzeral’s strongest subject is cost of living — A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 30% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Holiday and other second homes account for 27% of homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023. Metzeral 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 Metzeral does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Metzeral 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.
Metzeral 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 Metzeral as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancien hôtel de ville, in Munster, 3.8 mi away.
2.5% 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 Metzeral.
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
The median disposable income was €26,740 a year per consumption unit, in line with Haut-Rhin’s towns (€27,690) and compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 5.0% of working residents in Metzeral went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The under-15s are 14% of the population here. 25% of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Metzeral | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 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.
4 GPs practise in Metzeral. The nearest emergency department to Metzeral is Chi Hopitaux du Massif des Vosges Antenne Smur A Gerardmer, 9.7 mi away. 91 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 102: 10% below. Also worth knowing: in Haut-Rhin, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.5 years for women and 80.5 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A−.
The graded crime recorded most in Metzeral was armed robbery (2025). Graded property crimes ran at 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 5.3 (2023–2025 average).
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, other physical violence, sexual violence and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (100.0% of the index here).
Museums, family days out and other places to visit in and near Metzeral. Best known first.
Nothing in Metzeral 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 Metzeral yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Metzeral has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Metzeral is a commune of 1,058 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Munster. 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 8, 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.