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A town of 1,000 in Moselle, Grand Est.
Freistroff 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 10% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is schools (B): bac results a point above the expected rate; brevet results a point below the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Freistroff 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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On the Culture ministry’s list, Freistroff counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1991.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Freistroff.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Freistroff is Groupe Sos Sante Hopital de Saint Avold, 15.8 mi away. 91 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 83: 10% above. 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. There is one general practitioner in the town.
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.
Unemployment stood at 8.4%, below both Moselle’s towns (12.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Jobs based in Freistroff number 150, against 450 residents in work (0.3 per worker). Walking, cycling and public transport carried 4.1% of commuters at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Freistroff, 90.0% of lycée candidates passed the bac, near Moselle’s towns (90.9%) and lower than compared French towns (92.9%). For collège, the closest is 1.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège AdalbertNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 100 | 85%−1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel Antoine Gapp - Site de Bouzonville PrivateNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 63 | 90%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 16th century. Among the classé monuments in Freistroff is Château Saint-Sixte. 9.5% of homes were built before 1919.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €9.64/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
People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, above both Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Graduates make up a fifth of adults. Half of Freistroff is older than 47.8, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Freistroff | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Freistroff. Best known first.
Freistroff has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château Saint-Sixte: Photo: Freddo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Freistroff as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freistroff | 1,000 | — | — | B | — | D |
| Bouzonville | 3,721 | 2.2 | B− | A− | B− | D− |
| Boulay-Moselle | 5,434 | 7 | A− | B+ | B | D |
| Ham-sous-Varsberg | 2,888 | 10 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Creutzwald | 12,254 | 11 | C− | B+ | C+ | D− |
| Courcelles-Chaussy | 3,006 | 13 | A | A− | A− | C− |
| Carling | 3,291 | 13 | A | A | A+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Freistroff has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.2 recorded violent incidents and 5.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B, better than 62% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Freistroff is a commune of 1,000 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.