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3,069 residents make their home in this town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Jobs & income is its strong suit: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 8.5% unemployment. Health is a strength too (B+) — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 18% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Homes are dear (C−): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 44% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for schools and B− for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · 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. Pulversheim has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Pulversheim does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Pulversheim 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.
Pulversheim has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Pulversheim as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église catholique Sainte-Barbe, in Wittenheim, 1.6 mi away.
1.6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Pulversheim. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Pulversheim.
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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Pulversheim can choose among 2 GPs. The nearest emergency department to Pulversheim is Centre hospitalier de Guebwiller, 6.5 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 202 residents of Pulversheim died, against 247 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 18% fewer. 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.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The 15-to-24 age group: 11%, above Haut-Rhin’s towns (10%) and close to compared French towns (11%). The median resident of Pulversheim is 42.7 years old. The share of residents under 15 is 17%.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Pulversheim | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
8.5% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (10.5%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 6.7% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
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.
On results, collèges and lycées here come #38 of 51 in Haut-Rhin. Collège pupils travel 1.8 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marcel PagnolNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 102 | 92%+7 pts |
| Lycée professionnel privé Don Bosco PrivateNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 87 | 86%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Pulversheim’s tally for 2025: 12 recorded offenses. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 2.8 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 4.8. In 2025, family violence led the graded crimes in the town.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (35.9% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Pulversheim 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 Pulversheim 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulversheim | 3,069 | — | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Wittenheim | 15,553 | 2.1 | C− | C− | B | D |
| Ruelisheim | 2,519 | 2.1 | — | C− | — | B |
| Staffelfelden | 4,072 | 2.3 | C | C | A+ | D |
| Ensisheim | 7,306 | 2.6 | B− | C+ | B+ | C |
| Bollwiller | 4,184 | 2.7 | A− | C− | A | B+ |
| Kingersheim | 13,354 | 3.4 | C− | D | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Pulversheim has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 47% of compared French towns and #38 of 51 in Haut-Rhin. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Pulversheim is a commune of 3,069 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Mulhouse Alsace 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 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.