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5,802 people live in this town in Moselle, Grand Est.
More weak spots than strong ones. Algrange’s overall grade of D puts it better than 6% of compared French towns, #63 of 68 in Moselle. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 16% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The local economy is weaker than most: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 12.4% unemployment. It does especially well on safety — an average of 7.9 recorded violent incidents and 10.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Walkability is a strength too: 86% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 11% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Pupils here do less well than most (D): bac results 4.4 points below the expected rate; brevet results 6.3 points below the expected rate.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · 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.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Algrange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Algrange 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Algrange as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de Morlange, in Fameck, 4.1 mi away.
15% 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 Algrange.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There is one general practitioner in Algrange. At birth, a girl in Moselle can expect 83.6 years and a boy 79.1 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 1,060 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 658: 61% above.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pro: 84% of 221 candidates passed at the 2 vocational lycées within 5 km. At the lycées within 5 km of Algrange, 85.9% passed the bac, below Moselle’s towns (90.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. School results put the town #68 of 78 in Moselle.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Évariste GaloisNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 67 | 90%+2 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Vincent de Paul PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 52 | 94%−4 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Saint-Vincent de Paul PrivateBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 110 | 97%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €11.91/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
The median disposable income was €23,920 a year per consumption unit, close to Moselle’s towns (€24,105) and below compared French towns (€25,970). Unemployment stands at 12.4%. Public transport took 7.3% of Algrange’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Over 2025, Algrange logged 87 recorded offenses. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Algrange (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 · 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, 5.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Just over a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, above Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. The middle age in Algrange is 42.1.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Algrange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Algrange. Best known first.
MuseumÉcomusée des mines de fer de Lorraine4.5 km southwest, in NeufchefChâteauChâteauChâteau de Wendel4.5 km southeast, in HayangeChâteauChâteauChâteau Latourte2.1 km south, in NilvangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de Tournebride4.4 km south, in HayangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de Volkrange2.7 km east, in ThionvillePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Algrange is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
13 notable people were born in Algrange.
Josef Wagner: A. Bischoff, Bochum, Public domain · Christian Eckert: Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fabien Engelmann: France 3 Grand Est, CC BY 3.0 · Baptiste Butto: Bigmatbasket, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Silvio Sérafin: Christian Claude, Angoulême, Charente, France, CC BY 4.0 · Aurélien Salmon: Timan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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It grades B for safety, #30 of 68 in Moselle.
They grade D, better than 12% of compared French towns and #68 of 78 in Moselle. 94% of 52 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Saint-Vincent de Paul in 2025, 4 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Algrange is a commune of 5,802 people in the Thionville Fensch 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 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.