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Lostroff

Moselle · CC du Saulnois · INSEE 57417

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

No daily shops 10.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lostroff (INSEE 57417) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Saulnois. Population 71 (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/57417-lostroff

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 7,494 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 trend0.43104.34
Housing mix0.8954.43

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: 75 peak 1999: 83 2023: 71 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 69 (2012) → 71 (2023): 2.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 76 (1990) → 71 (2023): -6.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 35, of which 5.7 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 2.2 km E (Loudrefing)Bakery — 4.4 km NE (Insviller)GP — 6.8 km E (Mittersheim)Food shop — 8.2 km N (Albestroff)Pharmacy — 10.8 km N (Insming)
Primary school — 2.2 km EBakery — 4.4 km NEGP — 6.8 km EFood shop — 8.2 km NPharmacy — 10.8 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 (Insviller): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Albestroff): 8.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Mittersheim): 6.8 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Insming): 10.8 km to the north (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Loudrefing): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). [12]

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the RODALBE weather station, 13 km away at 258 m; the village itself is at 240 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 13 km away at 258 m, over 20 summers. [13]

An average of 931 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at MITTERSHEIM, 6 km away at 233 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57417/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57417/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57417/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57417/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57347
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57011
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57469
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57346
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57418
  13. 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
Colonfay02253 km NW719.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mouacourt5426 km SW7112No daily shopsno figures
Chatignonville91364 km W729.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Onglières39238 km S7013.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
La Creuse70137 km S7317No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-lès-Mangiennes55114 km NW729.2No daily shopsno figures
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mouacourt5426 km SW7112No daily shopsno figures
Villers-lès-Mangiennes55114 km NW729.2No daily shopsno figures
La Creuse70137 km S7317No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Onglières39238 km S7013.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Colonfay02253 km NW719.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Chatignonville91364 km W729.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · 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 Lostroff'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
Mont-Saint-Martin02239 km W7016.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Les Ableuvenettes8889 km SW7211.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Marchéville-en-Woëvre5589 km W6910.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Nantois55113 km W736.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Juvelize5719 km SW727No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Maisey-le-Duc21196 km SW718.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %