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A town of 3,199 in Moselle, Grand Est.
Knutange grades D− overall: better than 3% of compared French towns. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 96% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% 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 one thing Knutange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Knutange 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 Knutange as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de Morlange, in Fameck, 3.1 mi away.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Knutange.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. France’s death rates at each age would predict 219 deaths in Knutange from 2016 to 2025; there were 271, 24% more. The nearest emergency department to Knutange is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 5.6 mi away.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Knutange, 85.9% of lycée candidates passed the bac, below Moselle’s towns (90.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The town’s pupils have a collège 1.8 mi away. On school results, the town ranks #65 of 78 in Moselle.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jacques MonodNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 91 | 84%−5 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Vincent de Paul PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 52 | 94%−4 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Saint-Vincent de Paul PrivateBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 110 | 97%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Half of residents lived on more than €23,000 a year per consumption unit, below both Moselle’s towns (€24,105) and compared French towns (€25,970). 2.6% of Knutange’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
Those aged 15 to 24 account for 12% of residents. At 40, the median resident of Knutange sits in the middle of the age range. Children under 15 make up 17%, in line with Moselle’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%).
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Knutange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Graded property crimes ran at 17.2 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 8.3 (2023–2025 average). Police and gendarmerie recorded 62 offenses in Knutange in 2025. Also worth knowing: more of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (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 · When sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (4.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €11.91/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
Heritage and museums in and near Knutange. Best known first.
MuseumÉcomusée des mines de fer de Lorraine1.6 km southwest, in NeufchefChâteauChâteauChâteau de Wendel3.2 km southeast, in HayangeChâteauChâteauChâteau Latourte800 m northeast, in NilvangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de Tournebride2.9 km southeast, in HayangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de Volkrange4.4 km northeast, in ThionvilleChâteauChâteauChâteau de la Direction Smk800 m northeast, in NilvangePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Knutange is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Knutange.
Claude Frisoni: PlayMistyForMe, CC BY 3.0
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, #55 of 68 in Moselle. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 34 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 17% of compared French towns and #65 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
Knutange is a commune of 3,199 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.