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Some 1,215 people live in this town, in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 30% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes beat most towns (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 29% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its weakest subject is jobs & income — 0.6 jobs per working resident; 8.8% unemployment. It skews older: 37% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Oderen 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 Oderen does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Oderen 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.
Oderen 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 Oderen as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Cimetière militaire, in Moosch, 5.1 mi away.
18% 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 Oderen.
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
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 8.1% of the town. Degrees are held by 17% of adults, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Half the people of Oderen are older than 56.6.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Oderen | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 37% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 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.
In Haut-Rhin, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 80.5 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 276 deaths in Oderen from 2016 to 2025; there were 321, 16% more. The nearest emergency department to Oderen is Centre hospitalier de Guebwiller, 11.1 mi away. There is one general practitioner locally.
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.
Of those in the labour force, 8.8% are unemployed. The median disposable income was €25,110 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Haut-Rhin’s towns (€27,690). At the census, 4.3% of working residents in Oderen didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Oderen. Best known first.
Nothing in Oderen is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Oderen as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oderen | 1,215 | — | — | A | — | A |
| Cornimont Vosges | 3,027 | 7.4 | — | A | — | C |
| La Bresse Vosges | 3,853 | 7.8 | A+ | B− | A+ | B+ |
| Thann | 7,762 | 9.4 | B− | B+ | B− | D |
| Masevaux-Niederbruck | 3,594 | 9.5 | A+ | A | A− | C− |
| Saulxures-sur-Moselotte Vosges | 2,566 | 9.7 | — | A | — | C− |
| Buhl | 3,100 | 9.9 | A | A− | A | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Oderen has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.6 recorded violent incidents and 5.6 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
Oderen is a commune of 1,215 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Saint-Amarin. 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.