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With 15,806 residents, it is a town in Moselle, Grand Est.
The data are hard on it. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Hayange grades D overall, better than 8% of compared French towns. That places it #58 of 68 in Moselle. Its strongest is walkability — nearly four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Hayange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Hayange 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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Hayange has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1980.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Hayange.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 1,792 residents of Hayange died, against 1,376 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 30% more. Life expectancy in Moselle: 83.6 years for women and 79.1 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. There are 11 general practitioners locally.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Hayange, 86.3% passed the bac, below Moselle’s towns (90.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. School results put the town #63 of 78 in Moselle. Collège pupils travel 1.3 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège HurleventNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 175 | 86%+1 pt |
| Lycée Saint-Vincent de Paul PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 52 | 94%−4 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
The median disposable income was €24,630 a year per consumption unit, near Moselle’s towns (€24,105) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970). 1.8% of Hayange’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
Renting a house costs an estimated €11.79/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 Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Degrees are held by nearly a quarter of adults. Hayange has a median age of 40.8.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Hayange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 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.
Hayange has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé). The oldest protected building goes back to prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Of the graded crimes in Hayange, criminal damage came up most often (2025). Over 2025, Hayange logged 314 recorded offenses. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 9.2 cases of violence against people and 11.7 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 armed robbery, 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, 0.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Hayange. Best known first.
MuseumÉcomusée des mines de fer de Lorraine3 km west, in NeufchefChâteauChâteauChâteau de Tournebridein townChâteauChâteauChâteau de Bétange3.8 km east, in FlorangeChâteauChâteauChâteau Latourte2.2 km northwest, in NilvangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de Volkrange3.4 km northeast, in ThionvillePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Hayange has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Église Saint-Martin: Photo: Aimelaime sur Wikipédia français · Public domain
One notable person was born in Hayange.
Mathieu Jaminet: Ted Barrett, CC BY 2.0
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It grades B− for safety, #39 of 68 in Moselle. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 24 burglaries and 128 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 19% of compared French towns and #63 of 78 in Moselle. 94% of 52 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Saint-Vincent de Paul in 2025, 4 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
Hayange is a commune of 15,806 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 November 4, 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.
