Kappelkinger

Moselle · CA Sarreguemines Confluences · INSEE 57357

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

Few services 20.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Kappelkinger (INSEE 57357) is in Moselle (57), part of CA Sarreguemines Confluences. Population 425 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 17,983 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.6	10	5.95
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 442 2023: 425 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 410 (2012) → 425 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 388 (1990) → 425 (2023): 9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 212, of which 1.4 % second homes and 15.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.0 km SWGP — 3.0 km SWPharmacy — 3.2 km SWBakery — 5.7 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 (Albestroff): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Insming): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Insming): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Insming): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Kappelkinger): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.1

Days at or below 0 °C 68.6

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the KAPPELKINGER_MAN weather station, 0.5 km away at 223 m; the village itself is at 216 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 17.2 km away at 258 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at KAPPELKINGER_MAN, 0.5 km away at 223 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

No price figures: this département keeps the livre foncier rather than the cadastre, so its transactions are not published in DVF at all. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57357/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57357/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57357/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57357/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57011
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57346
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57357
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Saint-Pierre-de-Semilly	50	577 km W	421	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Bouxières-sous-Froidmont	54	60 km W	430	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Georges-de-Poisieux	18	417 km SW	430	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Brettnach	57	41 km NW	429	20.7	Few services	no figures
Porquéricourt	60	295 km W	416	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Oberdorf-Spachbach	67	62 km E	430	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Brettnach	57	41 km NW	429	20.7	Few services	no figures
Bouxières-sous-Froidmont	54	60 km W	430	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 86 %
Oberdorf-Spachbach	67	62 km E	430	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Porquéricourt	60	295 km W	416	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Georges-de-Poisieux	18	417 km SW	430	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Semilly	50	577 km W	421	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 45 % · 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 Kappelkinger'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
Orny	57	49 km W	448	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Brinckheim	68	155 km S	402	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Nogent-le-Sec	27	431 km W	423	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Artemps	02	283 km W	361	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Droupt-Saint-Basle	10	225 km W	339	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Chaudenay	52	165 km SW	338	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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