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The town has 1,264 residents and lies in Moselle, Grand Est.
Work and incomes are strong: 0.1 jobs per working resident; 6.7% unemployment. Health is a weak point (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It is hard to get around without a car (C−). Only 10% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Zoufftgen 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 Zoufftgen does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Zoufftgen 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.
Zoufftgen 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 Zoufftgen as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Maximin, in Boust, 3.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Zoufftgen.
Over-65s are a tenth of the population. Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, below both Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 22% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Zoufftgen | Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 37% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 10% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 46% | 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.
From 2016 to 2025, 58 residents of Zoufftgen died, against 48 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% more. 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. The nearest emergency department to Zoufftgen is Chr Metz Thionville Hopital Bel Air Thionville, 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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 5.7% of commuters at the census. 6.7% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Moselle’s towns (12.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · 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
Graded property crimes ran at 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 2.2 (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes in Zoufftgen, the most frequent was other physical 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 · Small counts of family violence, burglary, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 100.0% of the index here.
Heritage in and near Zoufftgen. Best known first.
FortOuvrage de l'Immerhof3.9 km south, in Hettange-GrandeFortFortOuvrage de Soetrich4.4 km southeast, in Hettange-GrandeFortFortObservatoire d'Hettange4.9 km south, in Hettange-GrandeFortFortMaison Forte3.1 km east, in Roussy-le-VillagePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Zoufftgen is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Zoufftgen as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoufftgen | 1,264 | — | — | C+ | — | D− |
| Hettange-Grande | 7,772 | 3.9 | A− | C+ | A | C+ |
| Ottange | 2,960 | 5.6 | B− | C− | A+ | C− |
| Cattenom | 2,580 | 6.2 | A+ | A | A | C |
| Manom | 3,137 | 6.4 | — | D− | — | A+ |
| Thionville | 42,658 | 6.7 | C− | D− | C− | C− |
| Algrange | 5,802 | 7.8 | D | C | B | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Zoufftgen has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Commune in Moselle, Grand Est
Zoufftgen is a commune of 1,264 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
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.