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Bettange

Moselle · CC Houve - Pays Boulageois · INSEE 57070

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 15.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bettange (INSEE 57070) is in Moselle (57), part of CC Houve - Pays Boulageois. Population 242 (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/57070-bettange

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,081 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.81108.08
Housing mix155

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 0 of 3
Lodging 0 of 2
One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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

1968: 155 peak 2017: 242 2023: 242 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 221 (2012) → 242 (2023): 9.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 185 (1990) → 242 (2023): 30.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 97, of which 0 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 0.7 km W (Gomelange)Food shop — 0.9 km NW (Gomelange)Bakery — 2.6 km NE (Holling)GP — 5.1 km N (Freistroff)Pharmacy — 6.2 km S (Boulay-Moselle)
Primary school — 0.7 km WFood shop — 0.9 km NWBakery — 2.6 km NEGP — 5.1 km NPharmacy — 6.2 km S Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Holling): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Gomelange): 0.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Freistroff): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Boulay-Moselle): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Gomelange): 0.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the COURCELLES-CHAUSSY weather station, 15.8 km away at 225 m; the village itself is at 203 m. [12]

An average of 834 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at BOUZONVILLE, 7 km away at 200 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57070/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57070/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57070/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57070/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57329
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57252
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57235
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57097
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Clamecy02227 km W2439.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 69 %
La Vicogne80313 km W24116.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 61 %
Léthuin28351 km W24017.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 68 %
Estrées-la-Campagne14489 km W24517.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 35 %
Saint-Pair14484 km W24517.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 49 %
Armaucourt5449 km S23912.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 72 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Armaucourt5449 km S23912.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 72 %
Clamecy02227 km W2439.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 69 %
La Vicogne80313 km W24116.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 61 %
Léthuin28351 km W24017.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 68 %
Saint-Pair14484 km W24517.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 49 %
Estrées-la-Campagne14489 km W24517.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 35 %

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