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Home to 1,790 people, this town lies in Moselle, Grand Est.
Peltre’s strongest is jobs & income: 1.2 jobs per working resident; 5.6% unemployment. 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. Schools lag: bac results 0.8 points below the expected rate; brevet results 2.7 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Peltre 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 Peltre 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.
Peltre has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Peltre as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne église Saint-Etienne-le-Dépensié ou Dépenné, in Metz, 3.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Peltre.
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.
For a family doctor, residents of Peltre can choose among 3 GPs. Average lifespans in Moselle: 83.6 years for women, 79.1 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. From 2016 to 2025, 148 residents of Peltre died, against 188 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% fewer.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Peltre, 83.2% of collège pupils passed the brevet, close to Moselle’s towns (84.3%) and below compared French towns (87.5%). The bac pro: 74% of 282 candidates passed at the 3 vocational lycées within 5 km. At the four general lycées, 95% of 927 candidates passed the bac, a point above the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Notre-Dame PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 47 | 87%±0 pts |
| Lycée de la communicationNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 335 | 96%+1 pt |
| Collège Les Hauts de BlémontBest against expectations: 13 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 83 | 76%+13 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 16%, close to Moselle’s towns (17%) and below compared French towns (17%). People 65 and over make up 26% of the town. The age that splits Peltre in two is 47.4.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Peltre | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.7% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
9.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Moselle’s towns (12.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment runs at 5.6%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Peltre. Best known first.
Nothing in Peltre 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 Peltre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peltre | 1,790 | — | — | C− | — | A− |
| Metz | 122,572 | 3.1 | D | C− | D | C |
| Marly | 10,286 | 3.2 | B− | C− | C+ | B− |
| Montigny-lès-Metz | 21,718 | 3.6 | C− | C− | B | C |
| Saint-Julien-lès-Metz | 3,554 | 4.2 | C− | D− | C− | C |
| Longeville-lès-Metz | 4,102 | 4.6 | C | C− | C− | B |
| Le Ban-Saint-Martin | 4,684 | 5 | B | C− | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Peltre 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 8.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C, better than 30% of compared French towns. The lycée stands out: 96% of 335 candidates passed the bac at Lycée de la communication in 2025, a point above 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
Peltre is a commune of 1,790 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.