Hoste

Moselle · CC de Freyming-Merlebach · INSEE 57337

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

Few services 33.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hoste (INSEE 57337) is in Moselle (57), part of CC de Freyming-Merlebach. Population 562 (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/57337-hoste

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,427 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.59	10	5.89
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (AUX DELICES D'ELISE). ^[3]

1 × Café / bar (LE HOSCHTA). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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)	1	AUX DELICES D'ELISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE HOSCHTA	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 441 peak 2007: 705 2023: 562 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 636 (2012) → 562 (2023): -11.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 516 (1990) → 562 (2023): 8.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 282, of which 1.8 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.1 km SWBakery — 2.6 km NGP — 3.3 km SEPharmacy — 3.4 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 (Farschviller): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hoste): 1.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Puttelange-aux-Lacs): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Puttelange-aux-Lacs): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Hoste): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.9

Days at or below 0 °C 49

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SEINGBOUSE weather station, 7.6 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 240 m. ^[11]

The village sits 107 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, 7.6 km away at 347 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 107 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, 7.6 km away at 347 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 — 57337/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57337/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57337/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57337/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57208
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57337
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57556
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
Lanmérin	22	749 km W	575	38.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Morvillers	60	368 km W	506	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Locmélar	29	805 km W	487	38	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Auchy-la-Montagne	60	350 km W	562	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Gouy	02	282 km NW	572	27.8	Few services	no figures
Précey	50	607 km W	559	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gouy	02	282 km NW	572	27.8	Few services	no figures
Auchy-la-Montagne	60	350 km W	562	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Morvillers	60	368 km W	506	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Précey	50	607 km W	559	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lanmérin	22	749 km W	575	38.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Locmélar	29	805 km W	487	38	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Hoste'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
Auchy-la-Montagne	60	350 km W	562	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Oroër	60	345 km W	537	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Mackwiller	67	26 km SE	525	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Uniac	35	663 km W	513	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Laps	63	466 km SW	601	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Sémeries	59	239 km NW	520	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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