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A town of 2,960 in Moselle, Grand Est.
Ottange grades B− overall: better than 46% of compared French towns, and #24 of 68 in Moselle. Its weakest subject is health (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is safety (A+): an average of 4.4 recorded violent incidents and 7.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Ottange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ottange 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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On the Culture ministry’s list, Ottange counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ottange.
Among the graded crimes in Ottange, the most frequent was family violence (2025). For 2025, the figures show 29 offenses here.
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 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, 16.2% of the index here. As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Ottange come to 103 per 100 predicted. 384 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 291: 32% above. The nearest emergency department to Ottange is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 7.6 mi away. In Moselle, women can expect to live 83.6 years and men 79.1 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €12.85/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
250 jobs are based in Ottange, for 1,300 working residents (0.2 per worker). The unemployment rate comes to 9.1%. 1.9% of the town’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
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The pre-1919 share of homes is 8.7%. Among the classé monuments in Ottange is Château (ruines).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Degrees are held by just over a fifth of adults, lower than both Moselle’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (30%). The middle age in Ottange is 43.8.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Ottange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage in and near Ottange. Best known first.
Ottange has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château (ruines): Photo: Aimelaime · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Ottange.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottange | 2,960 | — | B− | C− | A+ | C− |
| Audun-le-Tiche | 7,356 | 3.7 | C | D | C | B− |
| Villerupt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 10,102 | 4.3 | C | C+ | C | C |
| Algrange | 5,802 | 5.4 | D | C | B | D |
| Fontoy | 3,184 | 5.8 | C+ | C+ | A+ | D |
| Hettange-Grande | 7,772 | 6.6 | A− | C+ | A | C+ |
| Nilvange | 4,341 | 6.7 | D | C | B | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #6 of 68 in Moselle. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 9 acts of criminal damage.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Ottange is a commune of 2,960 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Haut Val d'Alzette. 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.