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With 1,029 residents, it is a town in Moselle, Grand Est.
Puttelange-lès-Thionville’s best grade is for cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 33% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 16% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 69% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. It skews young: only just over one in ten residents are 65 or over.
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. Puttelange-lès-Thionville 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 Puttelange-lès-Thionville 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.
Puttelange-lès-Thionville has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Puttelange-lès-Thionville does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Puttelange-lès-Thionville as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Anciennes fortifications, in Rodemack, 1.5 mi away.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Puttelange-lès-Thionville is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Puttelange-lès-Thionville.
Among adults, 38% have a degree. Line up the people of Puttelange-lès-Thionville by age and the one in the middle is 41.7. One in ten residents are 15 to 24, near both Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%).
45% women, 55% men
About 120 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Puttelange-lès-Thionville | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 34% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 11% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Puttelange-lès-Thionville is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 9.3 mi away. 56 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 48: 16% above. Life expectancy at birth in Moselle is 83.6 years for women and 79.1 for men (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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €17.00/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
7.9% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census. Unemployment stood at 7.1%, lower than both Moselle’s towns (12.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Jobs located in Puttelange-lès-Thionville: 50, for 550 residents in work (0.1 each).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people ran at 3.2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 5.1 (2023–2025 average). The commonest graded crime in Puttelange-lès-Thionville was sexual violence (2025).
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 · When family violence, other physical violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (100.0% of the index here).
Heritage and museums in and near Puttelange-lès-Thionville. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Puttelange-lès-Thionville yet.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Puttelange-lès-Thionville is a commune of 1,029 people in the Communauté de communes de Cattenom et Environs. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puttelange-lès-Thionville | 1,029 | — | — | A− | — | D |
| Cattenom | 2,580 | 5.6 | A+ | A | A | C |
| Hettange-Grande | 7,772 | 7.4 | A− | C+ | A | C+ |
| Manom | 3,137 | 8.7 | — | D− | — | A+ |
| Yutz | 17,391 | 9.6 | C | D | B− | C+ |
| Thionville | 42,658 | 9.9 | C− | D− | C− | C− |
| Terville | 7,801 | 11 | C− | D | B | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Puttelange-lès-Thionville has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
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 9, 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.