Epping

Moselle · CC du Pays de Bitche · INSEE 57195

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 38.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Epping (INSEE 57195) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Pays de Bitche. Population 572 (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/57195-epping

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 17,339 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.71	10	7.09
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE BLACK & WHITE). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar (CHEZ RENE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	LE BLACK & WHITE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	CHEZ RENE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 502 peak 2012: 573 2023: 572 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 573 (2012) → 572 (2023): -0.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 473 (1990) → 572 (2023): 20.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 278, of which 1.8 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 3.0 km EBakery — 3.1 km EFood shop — 3.1 km EGP — 8.3 km SW 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 (Volmunster): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Volmunster): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Rohrbach-lès-Bitche): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Volmunster): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Epping): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.7

Days at or below 0 °C 60.2

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VOLMUNSTER weather station, 4.9 km away at 358 m; the village itself is at 291 m. ^[11]

The village sits 67 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 VOLMUNSTER, 4.9 km away at 358 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 67 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 770 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VOLMUNSTER, 4.9 km away at 358 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 — 57195/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57195/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57195/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57195/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57732
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57589
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57195
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
Buysscheure	59	403 km NW	582	40.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Bazuel	59	290 km NW	551	33.7	Few services	no figures
Salles-sur-Garonne	31	802 km SW	584	41.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %
Paray-sous-Briailles	03	431 km SW	616	38.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Langouet	35	678 km W	604	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Limont-Fontaine	59	273 km NW	525	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Limont-Fontaine	59	273 km NW	525	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bazuel	59	290 km NW	551	33.7	Few services	no figures
Buysscheure	59	403 km NW	582	40.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Paray-sous-Briailles	03	431 km SW	616	38.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Langouet	35	678 km W	604	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Salles-sur-Garonne	31	802 km SW	584	41.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Epping'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
Limont-Fontaine	59	273 km NW	525	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Les Sauvages	69	418 km SW	626	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Courtomer	77	327 km W	591	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Novy-Chevrières	08	213 km W	715	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Paillart	60	367 km W	576	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Moyenneville	60	342 km W	575	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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