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5,699 people live in this town in Moselle, Grand Est.
A tough set of grades. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 10% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Mondelange’s overall grade of D puts it better than 12% of compared French towns, #55 of 68 in Moselle. It lags on jobs & income as well — 0.5 jobs per working resident; 11.4% unemployment. Its strongest is walkability — just over nine in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 17% 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 Mondelange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mondelange 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 Mondelange as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Hubert, in Gandrange, 1.8 mi away.
2.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, heritage and family days out in and near Mondelange. Best known first.
ZooParc zoologique d'Amnéville2.5 km southwest, in Hagondange
Theme parkWalygator Grand-Est3.8 km south, in Maizières-lès-Metz
AttractionThe Monster3.6 km south, in HagondangeAttractionAttractionAnaconda3.8 km south, in HagondangeAbbeyAbbeyAbbaye de Justemont4.6 km west, in Vitry-sur-OrnePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mondelange.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 16.8% of commuters at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €24,940 a year per consumption unit, about level with both Moselle’s towns (€24,105) and compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 2.4% of working residents in Mondelange didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
529 deaths in Mondelange between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 482: 10% above. Women in Moselle live to 83.6 on average and men to 79.1 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Mondelange is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 7.6 mi away. This Moselle town has 3 family doctors.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €10.41/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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Mondelange is 88.7%, below both Moselle’s towns (90.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%). The town’s schools place #49 of 78 in Moselle on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul LangevinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 128 | 75%−8 pts |
| Lycée des métiers Gustave EiffelNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 25 | 88% |
| Lycée polyvalent Julie DaubiéBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateGeneral lycée | General lycée | 265 | 98%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
A fifth of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Moselle’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Degrees are held by just over a quarter of adults. Those aged 15 to 24 account for 11% of residents.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Mondelange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Mondelange was criminal damage (2025). Graded property crimes ran at 16 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 6.5 (2023–2025 average). 2025 saw 113 offenses recorded locally.
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 and armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (1.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Mondelange is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Mondelange yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mondelange | 5,699 | — | D | C− | B− | D |
| Hagondange | 9,278 | 0.9 | C− | C | B− | D |
| Gandrange | 3,031 | 1.7 | C+ | C | A | C− |
| Amnéville | 10,875 | 1.7 | D | D | C+ | D |
| Talange | 8,120 | 1.9 | D | C | C+ | C− |
| Bousse | 3,236 | 1.9 | B+ | C | A+ | B+ |
| Vitry-sur-Orne | 2,884 | 2.4 | C− | C− | A− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #44 of 68 in Moselle. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 25 burglaries and 33 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 37% of compared French towns and #49 of 78 in Moselle. 88% of 25 candidates passed the bac at Lycée des métiers Gustave Eiffel in 2025 given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Mondelange is a commune of 5,699 people in the Communauté de communes Rives de Moselle. 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.