Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 12,035 in Moselle, Grand Est.
Florange grades D overall: better than 6% of compared French towns, and #62 of 68 in Moselle. Its weakest subject is health (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 18% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 84% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 16% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Florange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Florange 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 1 historic monument in Florange, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 19th century; the first monument here was protected in 1993.
3.6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage, other places to visit and gardens in and near Florange. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Florange.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Florange is above both Moselle’s towns (103) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 1,243 residents of Florange died, against 985 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
At the census, 16.2% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, above Moselle’s towns (12.7%) and close to compared French towns (13.4%). Florange has 7,400 jobs for 5,000 working residents, 1.5 per worker. 12.5% of the labour force are out of work.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In the comparison, Florange comes above both Moselle’s towns (€12.17/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
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.
For Florange, that is close to Moselle’s towns (84.3%) and below compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Louis PasteurNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 108 | 83%+1 pt |
| Lycée Antoine de Saint-ExupéryNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 363 | 88%−5 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jean MacéBest against expectations: 7 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 109 | 82%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Florange sits below both Moselle’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%) on this measure. Graduates make up 23% of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Florange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Florange, none of them classé, France’s highest protection. 3.6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 273 offenses in the graded categories in Florange in 2025. For armed robbery, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 0.3% of the index here.
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
Florange has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Domaine de Bétange: Photo: Sdo216 · CC BY-SA 4.0
2 notable people were born in Florange.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
It grades C+ for safety, #47 of 68 in Moselle. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 41 burglaries and 105 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 18% of compared French towns and #64 of 78 in Moselle. 88% of 363 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 2025, 5 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
Florange is a commune of 12,035 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.