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1,720 residents make their home in this town in Moselle, Grand Est.
Where it does best is jobs & income — 0.2 jobs per working resident; 4.9% unemployment. People here tend to be in good health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 22% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Housing is expensive: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 43% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for schools and C+ for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Lorry-lès-Metz has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Lorry-lès-Metz does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lorry-lès-Metz 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.
Lorry-lès-Metz has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Lorry-lès-Metz as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de Chazelles, in Scy-Chazelles, 2.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Lorry-lès-Metz. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la Cour d'Or4.6 km southeast, in Metz
MuseumMaison de Robert Schuman3.8 km south, in Scy-ChazellesFortFortFortin townCathedralCathedralCathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz4.5 km southeast, in MetzFortFortÉglise Saint-Quentin3.7 km south, in Scy-ChazellesPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lorry-lès-Metz.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €12.23/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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 131 residents of Lorry-lès-Metz died, against 168 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 22% fewer. At birth, a girl in Moselle can expect 83.6 years and a boy 79.1 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. The nearest emergency department to Lorry-lès-Metz is Hopital Regional D Instruction des Armees Legouest, 3.7 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A.
The graded crime recorded most in Lorry-lès-Metz was other physical violence (2025). All told, Lorry-lès-Metz had 33 recorded offenses in 2025. Violence against people ran at 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10.5 (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 family violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 23.9% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
The 65-and-over age group makes up 26% of residents. 8.8% of the population is aged 15 to 24, below Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Lorry-lès-Metz has a median age of 48.6 years.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Lorry-lès-Metz | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.7% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 52% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
The unemployment rate comes to 4.9%. At the census, 9.2% of working residents in Lorry-lès-Metz went to work by public transport.
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 Lorry-lès-Metz, 93.8% of lycée candidates passed the bac, above Moselle’s towns (90.9%) and close to compared French towns (92.9%). Collège pupils travel 1.1 mi to the nearest one. At the four general lycées, 96% of 1,194 candidates passed the bac, at the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Pierre Mendès FranceNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 109 | 85%−3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Louis de CormontaigneNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 271 | 93%−1 pt |
| Collège Jules FerryBest against expectations: 13 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 77 | 81%+13 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Lorry-lès-Metz is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Lorry-lès-Metz.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorry-lès-Metz | 1,720 | — | — | C− | B+ | A− |
| Woippy | 14,967 | 1.5 | D− | D | C− | D− |
| Le Ban-Saint-Martin | 4,684 | 1.7 | B | C− | A | B− |
| Longeville-lès-Metz | 4,102 | 2.2 | C | C− | C− | B |
| Scy-Chazelles | 2,753 | 2.3 | — | D | — | C |
| Moulins-lès-Metz | 5,265 | 3.2 | C | C− | D | C+ |
| Montigny-lès-Metz | 21,718 | 3.6 | C− | C− | B | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 11 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 51% of compared French towns. 93% of 271 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Louis de Cormontaigne in 2025, a point 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
Lorry-lès-Metz is a commune of 1,720 people in the Metz Métropole. 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.