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A town in Moselle, Grand Est, home to 2,397 people.
School results trail most towns: brevet results 5 points below the expected rate. It also trails on walkability — 85% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for cost of living, B− for health and B− for jobs & income.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Porcelette 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.
The one thing Porcelette does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Porcelette 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.
Porcelette 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 Porcelette as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ossuaire (ancien), in Niedervisse, 4.3 mi away.
4.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Porcelette.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 3.4 mi away. The town’s pupils have a collège 1.2 mi away. Near Porcelette, 87.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, about level with compared French towns (87.5%) and above Moselle’s towns (84.3%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège BergpfadNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 85 | 87%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, higher than both Moselle’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Degrees are held by 30% of adults. Half the people of Porcelette are older than 49.9.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Porcelette | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
3.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Moselle’s towns (12.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. 300 jobs are based in Porcelette, for 1,000 working residents (0.3 per worker). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €27,860 a year per consumption unit.
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.
There are 2 general practitioners in Porcelette. 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, 205 residents of Porcelette died, against 229 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 10% 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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
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
The commonest graded crime in Porcelette was criminal damage (2025). The police record for Porcelette lists 15 offenses in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.4 cases of violence against people and 5.1 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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, burglary, 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, 49.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Porcelette. Best known first.
Nothing in Porcelette 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 Porcelette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porcelette | 2,397 | — | — | B− | — | B− |
| Ham-sous-Varsberg | 2,888 | 1.7 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Carling | 3,291 | 2.9 | A | A | A+ | A− |
| Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold | 3,572 | 3 | A+ | A− | A+ | D |
| Creutzwald | 12,254 | 3.6 | C− | B+ | C+ | D− |
| L'Hôpital | 5,183 | 3.6 | B− | A | B+ | D− |
| Saint-Avold | 14,755 | 4.2 | B− | B+ | C− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Porcelette has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 22% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Porcelette is a commune of 2,397 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Avold Synergie. 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.