Cappel

Identity

Cappel (INSEE 57122) is in Moselle (57), part of CC de Freyming-Merlebach. Population 676 (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/57122-cappel

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 86 % of the 16,557 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.

Services

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BONNE MICHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (DUO GOURMAND). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

2 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DE MOTRICITE DE L ECOLE MATERNELLE · SALLE POLYVALENTE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (AD CREA COIFF · CHANTAL · LE MIROIR). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 689 (2012) → 676 (2023): -1.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 714 (1990) → 676 (2023): -5.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 325, of which 0.3 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Cappel): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cappel): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Henriville): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Seingbouse): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Cappel): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SEINGBOUSE weather station, 6.3 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 253 m. ^[11]

The village sits 94 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, 6.3 km away at 347 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 94 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 762 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SEINGBOUSE, 6.3 km away at 347 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57122/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57122/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57122/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57122/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57122
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57316
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57644
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025