Barchain
No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.
No daily shops 10.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.
Identity
Barchain (INSEE 57050) is in Moselle (57), part of CC Sarrebourg Moselle Sud. Population 94 (2023). [1]
INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). [2]
Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.
Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/57050-barchain
Vitality score
Vitality score 10.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).
Confidence: high.
Better served than 32 % of the 10,013 communes of a similar size.
Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.
Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.
| Component | Value (0–1) | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily food | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| Social | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Education | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Health | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Public & culture | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Population trend | 0.43 | 10 | 4.31 |
| Housing mix | 0.96 | 5 | 4.78 |
Services
What is here, at a glance
No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]
Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]
All 25 service types, with per-source counts
| Type | Count | Names | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bakery (boulangerie) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Butcher (boucherie) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Grocery (épicerie / supérette) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Supermarket | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Cheese shop (fromagerie) | 0 | INSEE SIRENE 0 [4] | |
| Fishmonger | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Restaurant | 0 | INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4] | |
| Café / bar | 0 | INSEE SIRENE 0 [4] | |
| Nursery school (maternelle) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Primary school (élémentaire) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Collège | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| GP (médecin généraliste) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Pharmacy | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Nurse | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Dentist | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Post office / agence postale | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Library | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Cinema | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Gym / sports hall | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Swimming pool | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Bank | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Hairdresser | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Fuel station | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Hotel | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Campsite | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] |
Market and village life
Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.
Trajectory
Population 112 (2012) → 94 (2023): -16.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]
Population 101 (1990) → 94 (2023): -6.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]
Dwellings (2023): 46, of which 2.2 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. [7]
Access and surroundings
Which way the everyday services lie
Bakery (Gondrexange): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]
Food shop (Imling): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]
GP (Héming): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]
Pharmacy (Lorquin): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). [11]
Primary school (Héming): 1.4 km to the south (straight line). [10]
Climate
Where this sits nationally
An average of 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 79 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]
Measured at the NITTING_SAPC weather station, 6.7 km away at 266 m; the village itself is at 285 m. [12]
Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [12]
Humidity measured at BUHL-LORRAINE, 8.8 km away at 258 m, over 13 summers. [12]
An average of 940 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [12]
Rainfall measured at GONDREXANGE, 3.2 km away at 266 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]
What property sold for
No price figures: this département keeps the livre foncier rather than the cadastre, so its transactions are not published in DVF at all. [13]
Uncertainties
No specific uncertainties flagged.
References
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57050/2023
- INSEE density grid 2026
- INSEE BPE 2025
- INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57050/2012
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57050/1990
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57050/logement/2023
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 57253
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 57344
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 57314
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 57414
- Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
- DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025
Villages like this one
Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.
| Commune | Dept | Distance | Population | Score | Band | Climate vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suisse | 57 | 40 km NW | 94 | 12.6 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 % |
| Semilly | 52 | 121 km SW | 94 | 9.7 | No daily shops | Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 % |
| Braux-Sainte-Cohière | 51 | 162 km W | 95 | 17.4 | No daily shops | Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 % |
| Soize | 02 | 237 km NW | 95 | 10.5 | No daily shops | Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 % |
| Surfontaine | 02 | 279 km NW | 92 | 16.1 | No daily shops | Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 72 % |
| Les Istres-et-Bury | 51 | 213 km W | 92 | 13.3 | No daily shops | Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 % |
Order by distance instead
| Commune | Dept | Distance | Population | Score | Band | Climate vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suisse | 57 | 40 km NW | 94 | 12.6 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 % |
| Semilly | 52 | 121 km SW | 94 | 9.7 | No daily shops | Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 % |
| Braux-Sainte-Cohière | 51 | 162 km W | 95 | 17.4 | No daily shops | Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 % |
| Les Istres-et-Bury | 51 | 213 km W | 92 | 13.3 | No daily shops | Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 % |
| Soize | 02 | 237 km NW | 95 | 10.5 | No daily shops | Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 % |
| Surfontaine | 02 | 279 km NW | 92 | 16.1 | No daily shops | Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 72 % |
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…and in much the same climate
The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Barchain's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.
| Commune | Dept | Distance | Population | Score | Band | Climate vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suisse | 57 | 40 km NW | 94 | 12.6 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 % |
| Donjeux | 57 | 45 km NW | 92 | 10.3 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 % |
| Maupas | 10 | 222 km W | 98 | 16 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 % |
| Senoncourt-les-Maujouy | 55 | 125 km W | 98 | 13.3 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 % |
| Biécourt | 88 | 86 km SW | 89 | 10.4 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 % |
| Brulange | 57 | 42 km NW | 99 | 12.4 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 % |
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