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A town of 1,016 in Moselle, Grand Est.
Bambiderstroff has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is cost of living (A): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 31% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Bambiderstroff does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bambiderstroff 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 Bambiderstroff as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ossuaire (ancien), in Niedervisse, 4.7 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bambiderstroff.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Bambiderstroff have one GP on hand. In Moselle, life expectancy at birth reaches 83.6 years for women and 79.1 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 84 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 112, 33% more.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.5 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Le CastelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 69 | 94%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income was €28,070 a year per consumption unit, above both Moselle’s towns (€24,105) and compared French towns (€25,970). Jobs located in Bambiderstroff: 50, for 450 residents in work (0.1 each). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 4.4% of commuters travelled at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town, near Moselle’s towns (22%) and lower than compared French towns (22%). One measure of family life: 19% of residents are under 15. Degrees are held by 27% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Bambiderstroff | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 4.1 violent offenses and 5.6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. The graded crime recorded most in Bambiderstroff was other physical violence (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 family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Bambiderstroff. Best known first.
Nothing in Bambiderstroff is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Bambiderstroff.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bambiderstroff | 1,016 | — | — | A | — | D− |
| Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold | 3,572 | 2.5 | A+ | A− | A+ | D |
| Créhange | 3,691 | 2.9 | B+ | A− | A+ | B− |
| Faulquemont | 5,109 | 3.6 | C | A− | C+ | D |
| Folschviller | 3,916 | 4.5 | A | A | A | C |
| Valmont | 3,041 | 5.3 | A− | A | A− | C− |
| Saint-Avold | 14,755 | 5.7 | B− | B+ | C− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bambiderstroff has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 86% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Bambiderstroff is a commune of 1,016 people in the Communauté de communes du District Urbain de Faulquemont. 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.