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Bickenholtz

Moselle · CC Sarrebourg Moselle Sud · INSEE 57080

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

No daily shops 13.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bickenholtz (INSEE 57080) is in Moselle (57), part of CC Sarrebourg Moselle Sud. Population 86 (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/57080-bickenholtz

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 9,143 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 trend0.62106.17
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: 92 2023: 86 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 77 (2012) → 86 (2023): 11.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 77 (1990) → 86 (2023): 11.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 41, of which 0 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 1.9 km N (Schalbach)Bakery — 3.9 km SW (Lixheim)Food shop — 5.4 km NW (Hirschland)GP — 7.0 km N (Drulingen)Pharmacy — 7.2 km N (Drulingen)
Primary school — 1.9 km NBakery — 3.9 km SWFood shop — 5.4 km NWGP — 7.0 km NPharmacy — 7.2 km N 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 (Lixheim): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Hirschland): 5.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Drulingen): 7 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Drulingen): 7.2 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Schalbach): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). [11]

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the PHALSBOURG_SAPC weather station, 11 km away at 377 m; the village itself is at 320 m. [12]

The village sits 57 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at PHALSBOURG_SAPC, 11 km away at 377 m, over 21 summers. [12]

That station sits 57 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 868 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at PHALSBOURG_SAPC, 11 km away at 377 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 — 57080/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57080/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57080/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57080/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57407
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67201
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67105
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57635
  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
Ugnouas65816 km SW8716No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 43 %
Y80323 km W8712.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Gerbécourt5748 km W859.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Cherville51221 km W859.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Valmunster5768 km NW8810.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 73 %
Coupetz51205 km W8812.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Gerbécourt5748 km W859.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Valmunster5768 km NW8810.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 73 %
Coupetz51205 km W8812.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cherville51221 km W859.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Y80323 km W8712.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Ugnouas65816 km SW8716No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Bickenholtz'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Coupetz51205 km W8812.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Croix-en-Champagne51186 km W8810.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Germaine02314 km W8413.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Tourcelles-Chaumont08198 km W8417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vregny02281 km W8910.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lezey5740 km W9011.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %