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Gerbécourt

Moselle · CC du Saulnois · INSEE 57247

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

No daily shops 9.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gerbécourt (INSEE 57247) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Saulnois. Population 85 (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/57247-gerbecourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 9,031 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 trend0.34103.42
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: 144 2023: 85 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 105 (2012) → 85 (2023): -19 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 101 (1990) → 85 (2023): -15.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 50, of which 0 % second homes and 18 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 3.0 km S (Château-Salins)GP — 3.0 km S (Château-Salins)Food shop — 3.2 km S (Château-Salins)Primary school — 3.3 km S (Château-Salins)Pharmacy — 3.5 km S (Château-Salins)
Bakery — 3.0 km SGP — 3.0 km SFood shop — 3.2 km SPrimary school — 3.3 km SPharmacy — 3.5 km S 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 (Château-Salins): 3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Château-Salins): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Château-Salins): 3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Château-Salins): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Château-Salins): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the LESSE_SAPC weather station, 12.6 km away at 233 m; the village itself is at 243 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 14.5 km away at 258 m, over 20 summers. [9]

An average of 753 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at DELME, 10.5 km away at 238 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57247/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57247/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57247/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57247/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57132
  9. 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
Cherville51173 km W859.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Bickenholtz5748 km E8613.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Germaine02268 km NW8413.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Tourcelles-Chaumont08152 km NW8417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Ugnouas65787 km SW8716No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Y80277 km NW8712.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bickenholtz5748 km E8613.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Tourcelles-Chaumont08152 km NW8417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cherville51173 km W859.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Germaine02268 km NW8413.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Y80277 km NW8712.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Ugnouas65787 km SW8716No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Gerbécourt'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
Tourcelles-Chaumont08152 km NW8417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
La Croix-en-Champagne51138 km W8810.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-sur-Nied577.8 km N8117.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gellenoncourt5422 km SW8117.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lezey5714 km SE9011.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Braux-Saint-Remy51122 km W8010.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %