Loudrefing

Moselle · CC du Saulnois · INSEE 57418

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

Few services 28.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Loudrefing (INSEE 57418) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Saulnois. Population 290 (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/57418-loudrefing

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 17,798 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.43	10	4.29
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (A LA CROIX DE LORRAINE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	A LA CROIX DE LORRAINE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE LOUDREFING	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 327 2023: 290 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 318 (2012) → 290 (2023): -8.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 312 (1990) → 290 (2023): -7.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 177, of which 4 % second homes and 16.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.0 km NGP — 5.0 km EFood shop — 9.0 km NPharmacy — 10.3 km E 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 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Mittersheim): 5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fénétrange): 10.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Loudrefing): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

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. ^[13]

Measured at the KAPPELKINGER_MAN weather station, 13.9 km away at 223 m; the village itself is at 244 m. ^[13]

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

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 15 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, 4.2 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

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57418/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57418/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57418/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57418/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57347
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57011
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57469
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57210
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57418
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
La Tranclière	01	328 km S	290	27.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Mesnil-Bruntel	80	306 km NW	290	27.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Montcornet	08	196 km NW	300	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Sailly-au-Bois	62	340 km NW	285	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Gobert	02	245 km NW	281	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Épineuse	60	320 km W	281	28.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montcornet	08	196 km NW	300	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gobert	02	245 km NW	281	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Bruntel	80	306 km NW	290	27.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Épineuse	60	320 km W	281	28.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Tranclière	01	328 km S	290	27.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Sailly-au-Bois	62	340 km NW	285	25.4	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 Loudrefing'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
Perrouse	70	177 km S	277	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Fallon	70	152 km S	306	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Fontenoy-la-Joûte	54	47 km S	311	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Anguilcourt-le-Sart	02	267 km W	274	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Brognon	21	205 km SW	317	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Xouaxange	57	19 km SE	325	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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