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UffholtzHaut-Rhin

The town, home to 1,614 people, lies in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.

Is Uffholtz a good place to live?

Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 7.5% unemployment. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for cost of living, B for schools, C+ for health and B for walkability.

Uffholtz 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.

How Uffholtz grades

Each subject compares Uffholtz 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.

How grading works

Uffholtz has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.

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Champ de bataille de l'Hartmannswillerkopt dans la forêt communale
Champ de bataille de l'Hartmannswillerkopt dans la forêt communale · Classé · Photo: Florival fr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Uffholtz’s story

Uffholtz in pictures

Uffholtz has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.

3% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

Aloÿs Claussmann, born in 1850, is the one person born in Uffholtz before 1900 that Wikidata records.

  • 1921First protected: Champ de bataille de l'Hartmannswillerkopf dans la forêt co…
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Nearby attractions

Borne Vauthier and 28 more in and around Uffholtz

Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Uffholtz. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (2)

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Uffholtz.

Schools

88.8% of candidates passed the brevet at the two collèges within 5 km, 1.7 points above the expected rate

Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

93%passed the bac (general and technological)BSchool Grade

Brevet pass rate · collèges within 5 km

Uffholtz88.8%
Median of towns87.5%

Bac pass rate · lycées within 5 km

Uffholtz88.1%
Median of towns92.9%
SchoolLevelCandidatesPassed, 2025
Collège René CassinNearest collègeCollègeCollège16391%+3 pts
Lycée polyvalent Amélie ZurcherNearest lycéeGeneral lycéeGeneral lycée12293%±0 pts
Lycée Gustave EiffelBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateVocational lycéeVocational lycée12883%+1 pt

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93%
passed the general and technological bac, ±0 pts against the expected rate
85%
passed the vocational bac, +2.8 pts against the expected rate
88.8%
passed the brevet at the collèges, +1.7 pts against the expected rate
0.5 mi
to the nearest collège from the town center

Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte

Work & commuteJobs & income B+

Uffholtz is better off than Haut-Rhin’s towns or compared French towns: the median disposable income is €29,980 a year per consumption unit

7.5% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (10.5%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, nearly one in ten commuters got to work without a car.

8%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving88%
Public transport4%
On foot3%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter0%
300
jobs based in Uffholtz, 0.4 per working resident
7.5%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€29,980
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 63% of compared French towns

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

HousingCost of living B

Estimated advertised rents run lower in Uffholtz than in Haut-Rhin’s towns or across compared French towns: €11.35/m² a month

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.

€11.35/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Uffholtz€11.35/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Haut-Rhin median€12.78/m²
€11.35/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.63 to €14.92/m² a month)
€12.70/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€27,240
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes de Thann-Cernay

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

History

2 historic monuments, 2 classé

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

Homes from before 1919 make up 3% of the total, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (5.8%) and compared French towns (7.4%). Among the classé monuments in Uffholtz is Champ de bataille de l'Hartmannswillerkopf dans la forêt communale.

2historic monuments
1921
first monument protected
3%
of homes built before 1919 · median town 7.4%

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

HealthHealth C+

More deaths than expected: Uffholtz is above 56% of compared French towns once ages and care homes are allowed for

Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.

Uffholtz has 2 family doctors. The nearest emergency department to Uffholtz is Centre hospitalier de Guebwiller, 6.4 mi away. 138 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 153: 10% below. Also worth knowing: women in Haut-Rhin live to 85.5 on average and men to 80.5 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.

−10%deaths against expected, after care homesC+Health Grade

Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025

Raw90
Adjusted90
Median town88
Expected100
2
GPs in Uffholtz · 3.5 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
6.4 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Guebwiller
8.9 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Clinique Diaconat Fonderie
85.5 · 80.5
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Haut-Rhin, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.

Who lives here

Children make up only 15% of Uffholtz, fewer than in Haut-Rhin’s towns and compared French towns

35% of adults hold a degree, above both Haut-Rhin’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Ages in Uffholtz split evenly at 46.5: half are older, half younger. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town.

46.5median age
UffholtzHaut-Rhin medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma12%
CAP or BEP30%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education35%

Women and men · all residents

52% women, 48% men

About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Uffholtz
UffholtzHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Under 1515%16%17%
15–249.8%10%11%
25–4423%24%23%
45–6431%27%26%
65+22%22%22%
No diploma12%18%19%
CAP or BEP30%29%26%
Baccalauréat18%18%18%
Higher education35%31%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes

Safety

Uffholtz has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average

In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Uffholtz. The 2025 count: 19 offenses in the town. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 4.6 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 8.3.

4.6recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year

Recorded by type · 2025

Criminal damage11
Family violence8
Armed robbery0
Fraud6

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.

4.6
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
8.3
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
19
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
47.2%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published

Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 47.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Uffholtz

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Landmarks

Uffholtz has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.

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Photo credits

Champ de bataille de l'Hartmannswillerkopf dans la forêt communale: Photo: Florival fr · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Champ de bataille de l'Hartmannswillerkopt dans la forêt communale: Photo: Florival fr · CC BY-SA 3.0

Famous people from Uffholtz

One notable person was born in Uffholtz.

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Uffholtz’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

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CernayVieux-ThannWittelsheimThannStaffelfeldenBollwillerCernayVieux-ThannWittelsheimThannStaffelfeldenBollwillerUffholtz
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Uffholtz1,614——B—C+
Cernay12,0570.9B−B−B−D−
Vieux-Thann2,8662.8—B+—B+
Wittelsheim10,6453C+C+B+C−
Thann7,7623.5B−B+B−D
Staffelfelden4,0723.7CCA+D
Bollwiller4,1844.6A−C−AB+

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

Questions about Uffholtz

Is Uffholtz safe?

Uffholtz has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.

Are schools in Uffholtz good?

They grade B, better than 63% of compared French towns. 93% of 122 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Amélie Zurcher in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

About Uffholtz

Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est

Uffholtz is a commune of 1,614 people in the Communauté de communes de Thann-Cernay. 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

Population
1,614 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes de Thann-Cernay
Département
Haut-Rhin (68)
Région
Grand Est
Area
4.6 sq mi (11.9 km²)
INSEE code
68342

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.