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Population 1,981: a town in Moselle, Grand Est.
Housing is within reach (B): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 35% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is jobs & income: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 10.6% unemployment. It also trails on schools (D) — brevet results 6.3 points below the expected rate. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 100% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Rouhling 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 Rouhling 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.
Rouhling 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 Rouhling as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Musée régional, in Sarreguemines, 3.6 mi away.
1% 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 Rouhling.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 3.4 mi off. Near Rouhling, 85.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, near Moselle’s towns (84.3%) and lower than compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Val de SarreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 99 | 82%−8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
No commute at all: 1.8% of working residents in Rouhling at the census. Unemployment stands at 10.6%. Half of residents lived on more than €25,140 a year per consumption unit, close to both Moselle’s towns (€24,105) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 14% of residents. People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above both Moselle’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). 23% of adults hold a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Rouhling | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €9.68/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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Moselle, life expectancy at birth reaches 83.6 years for women and 79.1 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. From 2016 to 2025, 266 residents of Rouhling died, against 227 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% more. The nearest emergency department to Rouhling is Hopital Robert Pax de Sarreguemines, 5 mi away.
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 care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Nothing in Rouhling 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 Rouhling 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rouhling | 1,981 | — | — | B | — | C+ |
| Grosbliederstroff | 3,346 | 1.4 | — | A− | — | C |
| Sarreguemines | 20,143 | 3.5 | C+ | B+ | C | D |
| Behren-lès-Forbach | 6,166 | 3.7 | B | A− | B− | D |
| Spicheren | 3,143 | 4.2 | A− | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Woustviller | 2,786 | 4.5 | — | A− | — | D |
| Œting | 2,599 | 4.7 | — | C+ | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Rouhling has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.3 recorded violent incidents and 4.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade D, better than 14% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Rouhling is a commune of 1,981 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Sarreguemines Confluences. 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.