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2,470 residents make their home in this town in Moselle, Grand Est.
Where it does best is schools: bac results 8 points above the expected rate; brevet results 4 points above the expected rate. Jobs & income is a strength too (B+): 0.1 jobs per working resident; 6.2% unemployment. Homes are dear (D): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 48% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It also trails on walkability — 85% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Tressange 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 Tressange does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Tressange 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.
Tressange 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 Tressange as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Sainte-Barbe, in Crusnes, 2.7 mi away.
3.4% 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 Tressange.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Tressange, 92.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, higher than both Moselle’s towns (84.3%) and compared French towns (87.5%). For the general bac, the closest lycée is 4.7 mi away. The closest collège is 1.9 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Lionel TerrayNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 61 | 92%+4 pts |
| Lycée des métiers de l'optique Saint-André (lycée professionnel) PrivateNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 59 | 98%+8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
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
Unemployment stood at 6.2%, below Moselle’s towns (12.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. The census found 5.5% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. At the census, 1.3% of working residents in Tressange didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 156 residents of Tressange died, against 186 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 16% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Tressange is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 8 mi away. In Moselle, women can expect to live 83.6 years and men 79.1 (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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
20% of residents are children under 15. Degrees are held by nearly a third of adults, higher than both Moselle’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (30%). Over-65s are 20% of the population.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Tressange | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Tressange. Best known first.
MuseumÉcomusée des mines de fer de Lorraine2.8 km northwest, in AumetzChâteauChâteauChâteau d'Ottange4.6 km northeast, in OttangeFortFortAumetz - B21.6 km west, in AumetzFortFortAumetz - B31.6 km west, in AumetzPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Tressange is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Tressange.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Tressange has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.9 recorded violent incidents and 4.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 94% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Tressange is a commune of 2,470 people in the Thionville Fensch Agglomération. 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.