Etzling

Moselle · CA de Forbach Porte de France · INSEE 57202

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

Few services 25.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Etzling (INSEE 57202) is in Moselle (57), part of CA de Forbach Porte de France. Population 1,136 (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/57202-etzling

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 15 % of the 13,562 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.54	10	5.38
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

2 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (ETZLING AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (JENNY'HAIRSTYLE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	ETZLING AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	JENNY'HAIRSTYLE	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: 862 peak 1999: 1,188 2023: 1,136 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,134 (2012) → 1,136 (2023): 0.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,094 (1990) → 1,136 (2023): 3.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 545, of which 0.6 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.5 km NWPharmacy — 1.2 km SBakery — 1.3 km SFood shop — 1.5 km NGP — 1.6 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 (Kerbach): 1.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Spicheren): 1.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Spicheren): 1.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Kerbach): 1.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Etzling): 0.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.7

Days at or below 0 °C 53

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 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SEINGBOUSE weather station, 11.2 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 296 m. ^[11]

The village sits 51 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, 11.2 km away at 347 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 51 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, 5.6 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 — 57202/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57202/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57202/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57202/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57360
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57659
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57202
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
Osthouse	67	100 km SE	975	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Parcieux	01	397 km SW	1,315	32.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 78 %
Ranguevaux	57	67 km W	907	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 96 %
Igney	88	109 km SW	1,133	27.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Béning-lès-Saint-Avold	57	10 km SW	1,095	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Zimmersheim	68	165 km S	1,083	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Béning-lès-Saint-Avold	57	10 km SW	1,095	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ranguevaux	57	67 km W	907	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 96 %
Osthouse	67	100 km SE	975	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Igney	88	109 km SW	1,133	27.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Zimmersheim	68	165 km S	1,083	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Parcieux	01	397 km SW	1,315	32.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 78 %

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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 Etzling'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
Béning-lès-Saint-Avold	57	10 km SW	1,095	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Machilly	74	329 km S	1,152	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Grugies	02	276 km W	1,280	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Éloie	90	166 km S	952	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Fublaines	77	295 km W	1,370	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Angerville-la-Campagne	27	423 km W	1,433	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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