Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town has 1,024 residents and lies in Moselle, Grand Est.
Semécourt’s best grade is for jobs & income (A+): 3.8 jobs per working resident; 8.1% unemployment. Homes are dear: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 43% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools are weaker too: brevet results 2.8 points below the expected rate. It has 1,550 jobs for 400 working residents.
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. Semécourt 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 2 things Semécourt does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Semécourt 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.
Semécourt 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 Semécourt as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église catholique, in Fèves, 0.8 mi away.
3.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, heritage and family days out in and near Semécourt. Best known first.
Theme parkWalygator Grand-Est4.1 km northeast, in Maizières-lès-Metz
AttractionThe Monster4.3 km northeast, in HagondangeAttractionAttractionAnaconda4.2 km northeast, in HagondangeFortFortGroupe fortifié Lorraine4 km southwest, in PlesnoisAttractionAttractionTerror House4.1 km north, in Maizières-lès-MetzChâteauChâteauChâteau de Woippy4.8 km south, in WoippyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Semécourt.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Moselle can expect 83.6 years and a boy 79.1 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 91 deaths in Semécourt from 2016 to 2025; there were 61, 33% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Semécourt is Hopital Regional D Instruction des Armees Legouest, 6.2 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €12.51/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
People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, below both Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Under-15s account for 19% of the population. 37% of adults hold a degree.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Semécourt | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 21% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 4.2 mi to the nearest lycée. Near Semécourt, 87.1% of collège pupils passed the brevet, higher than Moselle’s towns (84.3%) and near compared French towns (87.5%). The town’s pupils have a collège 1.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Les GaudinettesNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 74 | 91%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
8.7% 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. Unemployment stands at 8.1%. At the census, 2.7% of working residents in Semécourt didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, 29 offenses were recorded in Semécourt. Graded property crimes ran at 22.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 4.5 (2023–2025 average). Also worth knowing: the commonest graded crime locally was theft from vehicles (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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 32.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Semécourt is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Semécourt.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semécourt | 1,024 | — | — | C− | — | A |
| Maizières-lès-Metz | 11,580 | 1.7 | D | C− | B− | C− |
| Marange-Silvange | 6,539 | 1.7 | C+ | C− | A | D |
| Woippy | 14,967 | 3.2 | D− | D | C− | D− |
| Talange | 8,120 | 3.2 | D | C | C+ | C− |
| Amnéville | 10,875 | 4 | D | D | C+ | D |
| Hagondange | 9,278 | 4 | C− | C | B− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Semécourt has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C, better than 33% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Semécourt is a commune of 1,024 people in the Communauté de communes Rives de Moselle. 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.