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2,173 residents make their home in this town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Where it does best is cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is nearly a third of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: just over three quarters of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 13% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Elsewhere it is close to typical: C+ for schools and C+ for jobs & income.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Saint-Amarin 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 Saint-Amarin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Amarin 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.
Saint-Amarin has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Saint-Amarin; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 2022.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Amarin.
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. France’s death rates at each age would predict 228 deaths in Saint-Amarin from 2016 to 2025; there were 257, 13% more. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Amarin is Centre hospitalier de Guebwiller, 8.9 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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €8.48/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
Half of residents lived on more than €25,340 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Haut-Rhin’s towns (€27,690). Saint-Amarin holds 850 jobs; 900 of its residents are in work, so 1 jobs each. At the census, 3.9% of working residents in Saint-Amarin went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by nearly a fifth of adults, below both Haut-Rhin’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). 14% of residents are children under 15. Add to that, people aged 15 to 24 make up 9.2% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Amarin | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to prehistory. 13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 6.5 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Robert SchumanNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 91 | 89%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people ran at 7.3 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 5.4 (2023–2025 average). Over 2025, Saint-Amarin logged 33 recorded offenses. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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 sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 37.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Saint-Amarin. Best known first.
Saint-Amarin has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Amarin.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Amarin | 2,173 | — | — | A− | — | D |
| Thann | 7,762 | 6 | B− | B+ | B− | D |
| Vieux-Thann | 2,866 | 6.8 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Masevaux-Niederbruck | 3,594 | 7.2 | A+ | A | A− | C− |
| Buhl | 3,100 | 8.2 | A | A− | A | C |
| Cernay | 12,057 | 8.4 | B− | B− | B− | D− |
| Guebwiller | 11,243 | 8.7 | C+ | B | C− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Amarin has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C+, better than 41% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Saint-Amarin is a commune of 2,173 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.