Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
2,519 people call this town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est home.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 6.6% unemployment. The weak point is cost of living (C−): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 44% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around depends on the car: 2% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for schools and B for health.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Ruelisheim 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 Ruelisheim does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ruelisheim 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.
Ruelisheim has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ruelisheim 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, 0.7 mi away.
4.9% 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 Ruelisheim.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €12.48/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
Of those in the labour force, 6.6% are unemployed. At the census, 7.3% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below both Haut-Rhin’s towns (15.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. From 2016 to 2025, 196 residents of Ruelisheim died, against 236 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% fewer. This Haut-Rhin town has 2 family doctors.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Over-65s are just over a quarter of the population. Line up the people of Ruelisheim by age and the one in the middle is 47.8. Children under 15 count for 16% of the people here.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Ruelisheim | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Ruelisheim, 86.0% of lycée candidates passed the bac, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (93.0%) and compared French towns (92.9%). A collège lies 1.1 mi away. On school results, the town ranks #35 of 51 in Haut-Rhin.
| 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 |
| Collège Émile ZolaBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 130 | 84%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Ruelisheim’s tally for 2025: 17 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 4 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.4 (2023–2025 average). Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Ruelisheim (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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 32.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, gardens and museums in and near Ruelisheim. Best known first.
Nothing in Ruelisheim 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 Ruelisheim 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruelisheim | 2,519 | — | — | C− | — | B |
| Wittenheim | 15,553 | 1.5 | C− | C− | B | D |
| Pulversheim | 3,069 | 2.1 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Baldersheim | 2,596 | 2.4 | C+ | D | A− | C |
| Ensisheim | 7,306 | 2.5 | B− | C+ | B+ | C |
| Kingersheim | 13,354 | 2.7 | C− | D | B | C+ |
| Sausheim | 5,666 | 3 | C | C− | C+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ruelisheim has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 52% of compared French towns and #35 of 51 in Haut-Rhin. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Ruelisheim is a commune of 2,519 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 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.