Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 2,720 residents, it is a town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Volgelsheim’s strongest subject is cost of living — A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 32% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools do well: brevet results a point above the expected rate. The weak point is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Volgelsheim 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.
Each subject compares Volgelsheim 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.
Volgelsheim has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Volgelsheim as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église catholique Saint-Louis, in Neuf-Brisach, 0.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Volgelsheim is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Volgelsheim.
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.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Volgelsheim records 95 deaths per 100 expected, near Haut-Rhin’s towns (92) and higher than compared French towns (88). 197 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 207: 5% below. The nearest emergency department to Volgelsheim is Centre hospitalier Louis Pasteur Hospice Civil, 10.6 mi away. One GP practises in the town.
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 D to B.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its collèges and lycées rank #26 of 51 in Haut-Rhin on results. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 9.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Robert SchumanNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 129 | 89%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
For its 1,250 residents in work, Volgelsheim has 1,000 jobs: 0.8 each. 4.1% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €26,010 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Haut-Rhin’s towns (€27,690).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
25% of adults hold a degree, lower than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). People 65 and over make up 18% of the town. At 42.2, the median resident of Volgelsheim sits in the middle of the age range.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Volgelsheim | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Over 2025, Volgelsheim logged 17 recorded offenses. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 4.2 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 5.6. Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 · When family 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 (30.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Volgelsheim. Best known first.
MuseumChemin de fer touristique du Rhinin townFortFortPorte du Fort Mortierin townMuseumMuseumMusée Vauban1.5 km west, in Neuf-BrisachFortFortEnceinte de Neuf-Brisach1.3 km west, in Neuf-BrisachMuseumMuseumMusée Gallo-Romain de Biesheim2.7 km north, in BiesheimMuseumMuseumMAUSA Vauban1.5 km west, in Neuf-BrisachPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Volgelsheim yet.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Volgelsheim is a commune of 2,720 people in the Communauté de communes Alsace Rhin Brisach. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volgelsheim | 2,720 | — | — | A− | — | C |
| Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine | 3,004 | 7.6 | — | C | — | B− |
| Horbourg-Wihr | 6,199 | 8.2 | A | C− | A+ | B− |
| Colmar | 66,970 | 10 | C+ | C | C− | B− |
| Marckolsheim Bas-Rhin | 4,398 | 10 | A | B | B+ | C+ |
| Wintzenheim | 8,059 | 12 | A− | C− | B | B+ |
| Rouffach | 4,238 | 12 | A | B+ | C+ | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Volgelsheim has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B+, better than 69% of compared French towns and #26 of 51 in Haut-Rhin. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
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.