Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 2,435 residents, it is a town in Moselle, Grand Est.
Where it does best is schools — bac results 3.5 points above the expected rate; brevet results 1.7 points above the expected rate. Its lowest grade is for 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. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for cost of living and B− for jobs & income. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 75% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Schœneck 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 Schœneck 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.
Schœneck 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 Schœneck as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle Sainte-Catherine, in Hombourg-Haut, 8.7 mi away.
2.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Schœneck. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau Barrabino4.1 km southwest, in ForbachChâteauChâteauChâteau du Schlossberg4.2 km southwest, in ForbachAttractionAttractionPuits Sainte-Marthe1.6 km south, in Stiring-WendelArt galleryArt galleryGalerie d'exposition de la Médiathèque4.1 km southwest, in ForbachTheme parkTheme parkParc Accrobranche4.1 km southwest, in ForbachPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Schœneck.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted mortality in Schœneck: 103 deaths for every 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 215 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 221, 3% more. 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. The town has 2 family doctors.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 81% passed the bac pro, of 124 candidates at 2 lycées. For collège, the closest is 1.8 mi away. 85.6% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Schœneck, about level with Moselle’s towns (84.3%) and below compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Nicolas UnterstellerNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 107 | 84%+8 pts |
| Lycée des métiers des sciences et des technologies de l'information et de la communication CondorcetNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 134 | 92%±0 pts |
| Collège Pierre AdtBest against expectations: 12 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 86 | 87%+12 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income is €27,680 a year per consumption unit. For its 1,100 residents in work, Schœneck has 350 jobs: 0.3 each. On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 4.4% of commuters travelled at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group makes up 7.3% of residents. People 65 and over make up 25% of the town, above both Moselle’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Schœneck by age and the one in the middle is 52.4.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Schœneck | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 34% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 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.
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 yearly rates for 2023–2025: 2.6 violent offenses and 8.3 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. The 2025 count: 22 offenses in Schœneck. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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 · 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, 33.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Schœneck 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 Schœneck 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schœneck | 2,435 | — | — | B− | — | C− |
| Stiring-Wendel | 10,956 | 1.1 | B− | B | B+ | D− |
| Spicheren | 3,143 | 2.3 | A− | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Forbach | 20,493 | 2.5 | C | B+ | C | D− |
| Petite-Rosselle | 6,171 | 3 | B | A− | A | D− |
| Œting | 2,599 | 3.2 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Behren-lès-Forbach | 6,166 | 3.3 | B | A− | B− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Schœneck has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B+, better than 70% of compared French towns. 92% of 134 candidates passed the bac at Lycée des métiers des sciences et des technologies de l'information et de la communication Condorcet in 2025, at 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
Schœneck is a commune of 2,435 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France. 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.