Munster

Moselle · CC du Saulnois · INSEE 57494

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

Few services 26.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Munster (INSEE 57494) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Saulnois. Population 237 (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 26.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 16,965 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.53	10	5.3
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.83

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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)	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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	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: 238 peak 2017: 249 2023: 237 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 230 (2012) → 237 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 230 (1990) → 237 (2023): 3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 1.7 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.2 km SFood shop — 4.0 km NWPharmacy — 5.0 km NWGP — 5.1 km NW 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): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Albestroff): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Insming): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Insming): 5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Munster): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Measured at the KAPPELKINGER_MAN weather station, 6.8 km away at 223 m; the village itself is at 224 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 15.5 km away at 258 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

An average of 931 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MITTERSHEIM, 6.6 km away at 233 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57494/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57494/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57494/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57494/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57347
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57011
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57346
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57494
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
Birac	33	734 km SW	240	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Pozières	80	327 km NW	263	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Biron	17	670 km SW	243	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Savigny	88	80 km SW	211	28	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Colmen	57	56 km NW	207	27.1	Few services	no figures
Tangry	62	370 km NW	265	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Colmen	57	56 km NW	207	27.1	Few services	no figures
Savigny	88	80 km SW	211	28	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Pozières	80	327 km NW	263	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Tangry	62	370 km NW	265	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Biron	17	670 km SW	243	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Birac	33	734 km SW	240	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Munster'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
Faucompierre	88	88 km S	227	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lacollonge	90	139 km S	234	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Destord	88	75 km S	234	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Rilly-Sainte-Syre	10	223 km W	231	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Buc	90	145 km S	244	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Belles-Forêts	57	12 km S	224	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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