Obergailbach

Moselle · CC du Pays de Bitche · INSEE 57517

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

No daily shops 11.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Obergailbach (INSEE 57517) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Pays de Bitche. Population 268 (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/57517-obergailbach

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 17,504 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.52	10	5.15
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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

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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 228 peak 2012: 321 2023: 268 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 321 (2012) → 268 (2023): -16.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 264 (1990) → 268 (2023): 1.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 127, of which 3.9 % second homes and 2.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.0 km WFood shop — 3.7 km SWBakery — 3.9 km EGP — 5.3 km WPharmacy — 8.6 km S 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 (Erching): 3.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Wœlfling-lès-Sarreguemines): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Blies-Ébersing): 5.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Achen): 8.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Bliesbruck): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.4

Days at or below 0 °C 77.4

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the REMELFING weather station, 8.9 km away at 220 m; the village itself is at 255 m. ^[13]

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

Humidity measured at VOLMUNSTER, 11.9 km away at 358 m, over 23 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 103 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 897 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at REMELFING, 8.9 km away at 220 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 — 57517/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57517/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57517/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57517/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57196
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57750
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57092
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57006
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57091
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
Forges-la-Forêt	35	641 km W	268	11	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Lumier-en-Champagne	51	193 km W	267	13.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Garancières-en-Drouais	28	436 km W	272	11.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Grassendorf	67	44 km SE	264	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Vendine	31	743 km SW	269	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 47 % · humidity 50 %
La Bazoque	61	572 km W	269	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Grassendorf	67	44 km SE	264	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Lumier-en-Champagne	51	193 km W	267	13.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Garancières-en-Drouais	28	436 km W	272	11.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
La Bazoque	61	572 km W	269	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Forges-la-Forêt	35	641 km W	268	11	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Vendine	31	743 km SW	269	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 47 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Obergailbach'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
Dambenoît-lès-Colombe	70	167 km S	272	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-lès-Neufchâteau	88	143 km SW	267	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Villery	10	258 km SW	277	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Salmagne	55	144 km W	281	9.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Domjevin	54	71 km SW	268	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Abbans-Dessus	25	243 km SW	282	13.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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