Rahling

Moselle · CC du Pays de Bitche · INSEE 57561

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 25.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rahling (INSEE 57561) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Pays de Bitche. Population 707 (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 25.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 16,367 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.41	10	4.05
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE AMMER VINCENT EIRL). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE AMMER VINCENT EIRL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 843 peak 1975: 857 2023: 707 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 817 (2012) → 707 (2023): -13.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 781 (1990) → 707 (2023): -9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 365, of which 1.9 % second homes and 9.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.8 km NWGP — 5.9 km SPharmacy — 6.5 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 (Rahling): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Etting): 4.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Diemeringen): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Achen): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Rahling): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

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 0.8

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 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the REMELFING weather station, 13.2 km away at 220 m; the village itself is at 247 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at VOLMUNSTER, 19.2 km away at 358 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 111 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 897 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at REMELFING, 13.2 km away at 220 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 — 57561/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57561/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57561/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57561/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57561
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 67095
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57006
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
Gas	28	409 km W	718	28.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Trèves	69	429 km SW	712	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Montbrun-Lauragais	31	755 km SW	730	33	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 42 % · humidity 71 %
Haraucourt	54	72 km SW	729	28.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Dangolsheim	67	50 km S	681	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Chalmaison	77	296 km W	749	26	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dangolsheim	67	50 km S	681	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Haraucourt	54	72 km SW	729	28.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Chalmaison	77	296 km W	749	26	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Gas	28	409 km W	718	28.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Trèves	69	429 km SW	712	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Montbrun-Lauragais	31	755 km SW	730	33	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 42 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Rahling'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
Larnod	25	221 km SW	773	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Cessey-sur-Tille	21	241 km SW	637	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ranspach-le-Haut	68	158 km S	627	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Nonglard	74	353 km S	733	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Helfrantzkirch	68	155 km S	737	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Steinbrunn-le-Haut	68	148 km S	693	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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