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FalckMoselle

A town of 2,482 in Moselle, Grand Est.

Is Falck a good place to live?

Falck 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 8% 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 30% 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.

How Falck grades

Each subject compares Falck 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.

How grading works

Cost of livingAOpen →HealthDOpen →Jobs & income9.1% unemploymentDOpen →SchoolsC−Open →Walkability86% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to workC+Open →
SafetyNot graded: over a quarter of the index would rest on the département’s average, where small counts aren’t published–
Hazard riskNot graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas–

How TownRatings grades French towns →

Falck’s outline. No photo of the town is in our collection yet.
Falck’s story

No historic monuments in Falck

The Culture ministry lists no building in Falck as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.

The nearest classé monument is Ossuaire de Welling (ancien), in Denting, 4.9 mi away.

3.3% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Falck.

HousingCost of living A

Estimated advertised rents run lower in Falck than in Moselle’s towns or across compared French towns: €9.54/m² a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Falck sits below both Moselle’s towns (€12.17/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) on this measure.

€9.54/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Falck€9.54/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Moselle median€12.17/m²
€9.54/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.66 to €11.89/m² a month)
€9.64/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€26,780
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Houve-Pays Boulageois

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

HealthHealth D

Allowing for age and care homes, Falck sees more deaths than Moselle’s towns or compared French towns: 108 per 100 expected

Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.

That puts Falck above both Moselle’s towns (103) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 258 residents of Falck died, against 239 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.

+8%deaths against expected, after care homesDHealth Grade

Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025

Raw108
Adjusted108
Median town88
Expected100
3
GPs in Falck · 2.3 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
8.8 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Groupe Sos Sante Hopital de Saint Avold
8.1 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Clinique Saint Nabor de Saint Avold
83.6 · 79.1
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Moselle, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3

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

Schools

86.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collège within 5 km, 6 points below the expected rate

Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

On this, Falck is above Moselle’s towns (84.3%) but below compared French towns (87.5%).

86.0%passed the brevetC−School Grade

Brevet pass rate · collèges within 5 km

Falck86.0%
Median of towns87.5%
SchoolLevelCandidatesPassed, 2025
Collège La Grande SauleNearest collègeCollègeCollège8586%−6 pts
86.0%
passed the brevet at the collèges, −6 pts against the expected rate
0.9 mi
to the nearest collège from the town center

Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte

Work & commuteJobs & income D

Walking, cycling and public transport carry fewer commuters in Falck than in Moselle’s towns or compared French towns: 3.3%

In the comparison, Falck comes below both Moselle’s towns (12.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Falck has 300 jobs for 1,000 working residents, 0.3 per worker. 9.1% of the labour force are out of work.

3%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving94%
On foot2%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Public transport1%
Bicycle1%
300
jobs based in Falck, 0.3 per working resident
9.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€25,140
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
1%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C+
Walkability: better than 36% of compared French towns

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Who lives here

Falck has fewer young adults than Moselle’s towns or compared French towns: 8% are 15 to 24

For Falck, that is below both Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Children are 14% of the town.

48.6median age
FalckMoselle medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma21%
CAP or BEP32%
Baccalauréat22%
Higher education19%

Women and men · all residents

51% women, 49% men

About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Falck
FalckMoselle medianFrance median
Under 1514%17%17%
15–248%11%11%
25–4423%24%23%
45–6430%27%26%
65+26%22%22%
No diploma21%23%19%
CAP or BEP32%30%26%
Baccalauréat22%17%18%
Higher education19%24%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes

Nearby attractions

La St Barbe de Guerting and 2 more in and around Falck

Other places to visit in and near Falck. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
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Everything we know about Falck

13pages on Falck

Landmarks

Nothing in Falck is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.

Its history page →

Famous people from Falck

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Falck yet.

How we find them →

Falck’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Moselle →
Ham-sous-VarsbergCreutzwaldCarlingL'HôpitalBouzonvilleBoulay-MoselleHam-sous-VarsbergCreutzwaldCarlingL'HôpitalBouzonvilleBoulay-MoselleFalck
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Falck2,482——A—D
Ham-sous-Varsberg2,8883—B+—D
Creutzwald12,2543.2C−B+C+D−
Carling3,2915.4AAA+A−
L'Hôpital5,1836.3B−AB+D−
Bouzonville3,7216.7B−A−B−D−
Boulay-Moselle5,4346.8A−B+BD

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

Questions about Falck

Is Falck safe?

Falck has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.9 recorded violent incidents and 5.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Are schools in Falck good?

They grade C−, better than 16% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

About Falck

Commune in Moselle, Grand Est

Falck is a commune of 2,482 people in the Communauté de communes Houve-Pays Boulageois. 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

Population
2,482 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Houve-Pays Boulageois
Département
Moselle (57)
Région
Grand Est
Area
2.3 sq mi (6.1 km²)
INSEE code
57205

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.