Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 1,195 residents, it is a town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Housing is within reach (A): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 31% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Wihr-au-Val 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.
Each subject compares Wihr-au-Val 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.
Wihr-au-Val has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Wihr-au-Val, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1934.
Médard Burgard, born in 1810, is the one person born in Wihr-au-Val before 1900 that Wikidata records.
The list names few of Wihr-au-Val’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ancienne porte de Ville: Photo: Runi Gerardsen · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Wihr-au-Val.
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
The median disposable income was €30,680 a year per consumption unit, higher than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (€27,690) and compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 10.4% 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
Children under 15 count for 14% of the people here. 26% of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Degrees are held by just over a third of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Wihr-au-Val | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 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.
Nearly one in ten homes date from before 1919. The oldest protected building goes back to the 13th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Wihr-au-Val is Centre hospitalier Louis Pasteur Hospice Civil, 6.4 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 104 residents of Wihr-au-Val died, against 115 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 10% fewer. Life expectancy in Haut-Rhin: 85.5 years for women and 80.5 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. One GP practises here.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A−.
Heritage, museums and gardens in and near Wihr-au-Val. Best known first.
One notable person was born in Wihr-au-Val.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Wihr-au-Val is a commune of 1,195 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Munster. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wihr-au-Val | 1,195 | — | — | A | — | C+ |
| Munster | 4,738 | 3.1 | A+ | B+ | A− | B+ |
| Turckheim | 4,139 | 4.3 | A | C | A− | B+ |
| Wintzenheim | 8,059 | 4.8 | A− | C− | B | B+ |
| Orbey | 3,429 | 5.5 | — | B | — | A− |
| Ingersheim | 4,774 | 5.7 | A− | C | A | C+ |
| Kaysersberg Vignoble | 4,383 | 6.8 | A | B+ | B | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Wihr-au-Val has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 5.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 9, 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.