Gorze

Moselle · CC Mad et Moselle · INSEE 57254

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

Few services 30/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gorze (INSEE 57254) is in Moselle (57), part of CC Mad et Moselle. Population 1,120 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/57254-gorze

Vitality score

Vitality score 30/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 13,670 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	0.39	25	9.75
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.31	10	3.06
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES PAINS VAGABONDS · MAISON SCHERER · BOULANGERIE BETHLEEM). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA PETITE EPICERIE DE GORZE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VERONIQUE ZANATTA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (GORZE RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (ANASTASIA COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	LES PAINS VAGABONDS · MAISON SCHERER · BOULANGERIE BETHLEEM	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA PETITE EPICERIE DE GORZE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	VERONIQUE ZANATTA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	GORZE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	ANASTASIA COIFFURE	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: 1,122 peak 1999: 1,392 2023: 1,120 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,205 (2012) → 1,120 (2023): -7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,389 (1990) → 1,120 (2023): -19.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 478, of which 2.1 % second homes and 13.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 2.6 km WPharmacy — 5.0 km SE 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 (Gorze): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gorze): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Gorze): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Novéant-sur-Moselle): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Gorze): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.2

Days at or below 0 °C 59

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the METZ-FRESCATY weather station, 9.5 km away at 192 m; the village itself is at 211 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at METZ-FRESCATY, 9.5 km away at 192 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 802 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CORNY-SUR-MOSELLE, 5 km away at 180 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57254/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57254/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57254/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57254/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57515
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
Candas	80	294 km NW	1,035	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Palluau	85	620 km W	1,128	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 69 %
Laluque	40	788 km SW	1,102	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 50 %
Beine-Nauroy	51	131 km W	1,044	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Étrechet	36	403 km SW	998	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Guimiliau	29	735 km W	994	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beine-Nauroy	51	131 km W	1,044	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Candas	80	294 km NW	1,035	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Étrechet	36	403 km SW	998	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Palluau	85	620 km W	1,128	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 69 %
Guimiliau	29	735 km W	994	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Laluque	40	788 km SW	1,102	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · 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 Gorze'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
Beine-Nauroy	51	131 km W	1,044	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Beauquesne	80	284 km NW	1,352	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Archettes	88	111 km S	1,113	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Ohnenheim	67	147 km SE	1,164	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Einville-au-Jard	54	57 km SE	1,053	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mézières-en-Drouais	28	336 km W	1,059	33.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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