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A town of 1,072 in Moselle, Grand Est.
Apach has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is jobs & income (B): 0.2 jobs per working resident; 7.3% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Apach does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Apach 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 Apach as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle du cimetière, in Haute-Kontz, 1.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Apach.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Apach records 103 deaths per 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 71 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 73, 3% more. The nearest emergency department to Apach is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 11.9 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Moselle is 83.6 years for women and 79.1 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 D− to B.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 11.7 mi off. The town’s pupils have a collège 1.9 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Général de GaulleNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 149 | 87%−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.
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
Graduates make up just over a third of adults. 16% of residents are 65 or over, below both Moselle’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Under-15s account for 19% of the population.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Apach | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 35% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Of those in the labour force, 7.3% are unemployed. 9.2% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Moselle’s towns (12.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people ran at 2.8 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.3 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes in Apach were family violence than anything else (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 · Small counts of burglary, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 100.0% of the index here.
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Apach. Best known first.
Nothing in Apach is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Apach yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apach | 1,072 | — | — | C− | — | C− |
| Cattenom | 2,580 | 7.1 | A+ | A | A | C |
| Manom | 3,137 | 11 | — | D− | — | A+ |
| Hettange-Grande | 7,772 | 11 | A− | C+ | A | C+ |
| Yutz | 17,391 | 11 | C | D | B− | C+ |
| Thionville | 42,658 | 12 | C− | D− | C− | C− |
| Bertrange | 2,941 | 13 | B− | D | A+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Apach has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 22% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Apach is a commune of 1,072 people in the Communauté de communes Bouzonvillois-Trois Frontières. 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.