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The town has 2,650 residents and lies in Moselle, Grand Est.
Neufchef’s strongest is walkability — 87% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Prices are high against local incomes (C−): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 42% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It lags on schools as well: bac results 4.4 points below the expected rate; brevet results a point above the expected rate. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for health and B for jobs & income.
Neufchef has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Neufchef does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Neufchef 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.
Neufchef has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Neufchef as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de Morlange, in Fameck, 2.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Neufchef.
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
6.8% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Moselle’s towns (12.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). For its 1,150 residents in work, Neufchef has 150 jobs: 0.1 each. At the census, 3.6% of working residents in Neufchef 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.
Vocational results within 5 km: 84% passed the bac pro, of 221 candidates at 2 lycées. Its schools’ results rank #50 of 78 in Moselle. For collège, the closest is 1.5 mi away.
| 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 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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Neufchef has one family doctor. Women in Moselle live to 83.6 on average and men to 79.1 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 255 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 298: 14% below.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
18% are under 15, higher than Moselle’s towns (17%) and near compared French towns (17%). Degrees are held by 29% of adults. The middle age in Neufchef is 44.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Neufchef | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Neufchef was criminal damage (2025). Recorded offenses in the town came to 23 in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 1.7 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 7.3.
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, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 37.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Neufchef. Best known first.
MuseumÉcomusée des mines de fer de Lorrainein townChâteauChâteauChâteau de Wendel3.8 km east, in HayangeChâteauChâteauChâteau Latourte3.3 km northeast, in NilvangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de Tournebride3.4 km east, in HayangeChâteauChâteauChâteau de la Direction Smk3.4 km north, in NilvangeMuseumMuseumMaison d'Information4.8 km northwest, in FontoyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Neufchef 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 Neufchef yet.
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Neufchef has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 17 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 36% of compared French towns and #50 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
Neufchef is a commune of 2,650 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.