Bousbach

Moselle · CA de Forbach Porte de France · INSEE 57101

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 31.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 29 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bousbach (INSEE 57101) is in Moselle (57), part of CA de Forbach Porte de France. Population 1,179 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/57101-bousbach

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 29 % of the 13,321 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.79	10	7.91
Housing mix	1	5	5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

2 × Restaurant (57). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (DJELISSA). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	2	57	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	1	DJELISSA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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

1968: 649 peak 2017: 1,226 2023: 1,179 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,142 (2012) → 1,179 (2023): 3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 913 (1990) → 1,179 (2023): 29.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 522, of which 0 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 2.1 km NGP — 2.3 km NPharmacy — 2.5 km NE 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 (Behren-lès-Forbach): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bousbach): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Behren-lès-Forbach): 2.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Kerbach): 2.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bousbach): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.2

Days at or below 0 °C 51.2

Muggy days a summer 1

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SEINGBOUSE weather station, 8.8 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 264 m. ^[11]

The village sits 83 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SEINGBOUSE, 8.8 km away at 347 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 83 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 796 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FORBACH, 6 km away at 205 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57101/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57101/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57101/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57101/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57058
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57101
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57360
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pérouse	90	168 km S	1,196	37.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Villate	31	762 km SW	1,233	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Cerisé	61	505 km W	844	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Zimmersheim	68	162 km S	1,083	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Lévis-Saint-Nom	78	368 km W	1,603	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Nogentel	02	259 km W	1,106	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Zimmersheim	68	162 km S	1,083	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Pérouse	90	168 km S	1,196	37.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Nogentel	02	259 km W	1,106	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Lévis-Saint-Nom	78	368 km W	1,603	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cerisé	61	505 km W	844	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villate	31	762 km SW	1,233	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Bousbach'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
Cerisé	61	505 km W	844	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lévis-Saint-Nom	78	368 km W	1,603	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cutry	54	95 km NW	1,032	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Fublaines	77	293 km W	1,370	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Angerville-la-Campagne	27	422 km W	1,433	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Mogneville	60	325 km W	1,487	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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