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A town in Moselle, Grand Est, home to 1,578 people.
Housing is within reach: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is just over a quarter of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest 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. It also trails on walkability: 77% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Montbronn 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.
Each subject compares Montbronn 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.
Montbronn 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 Montbronn as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Trois pierres druidiques dites Dreipeterstein situées dans la forêt domaniale, in Rosteig, 3.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montbronn.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
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.
288 deaths in Montbronn between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 197: 46% above. The nearest emergency department to Montbronn is Hopital St Joseph Bitche Ch Robert Pax, 6.3 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Montbronn have one GP on hand. At birth, a girl in Moselle can expect 83.6 years and a boy 79.1 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
5.1% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. Jobs located in Montbronn: 300, for 700 residents in work (0.4 each). The median disposable income is €26,050 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Those 65 and older account for 28% of residents. The 15-to-24 age group: 8.3%, lower than both Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Nearly a fifth of adults hold a degree.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Montbronn | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Montbronn. Best known first.
Nothing in Montbronn 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 Montbronn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montbronn | 1,578 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Bitche | 4,966 | 6.8 | A− | A | A− | C− |
| Sarre-Union Bas-Rhin | 2,731 | 11 | B+ | A+ | C− | D |
| Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 3,995 | 11 | B | C+ | B+ | C |
| Sarralbe | 4,364 | 13 | B− | A− | B+ | D |
| Hambach | 2,766 | 13 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Sarreguemines | 20,143 | 14 | C+ | B+ | C | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montbronn has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.9 recorded violent incidents and 3.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Montbronn is a commune of 1,578 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Bitche. 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.