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Rolbing

Moselle · CC du Pays de Bitche · INSEE 57590

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

No daily shops 11.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rolbing (INSEE 57590) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Pays de Bitche. Population 259 (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/57590-rolbing

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 17,354 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 trend0.48104.81
Housing mix0.9654.78

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: 356 2023: 259 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 275 (2012) → 259 (2023): -5.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 264 (1990) → 259 (2023): -1.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 2.2 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 3.0 km SE (Waldhouse)Bakery — 8.2 km SW (Volmunster)Food shop — 8.2 km SW (Volmunster)Pharmacy — 8.3 km SW (Volmunster)GP — 13.4 km S (Bitche)
Primary school — 3.0 km SEBakery — 8.2 km SWFood shop — 8.2 km SWPharmacy — 8.3 km SWGP — 13.4 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 (Volmunster): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Volmunster): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Bitche): 13.4 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Volmunster): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Waldhouse): 3 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the VOLMUNSTER weather station, 6.8 km away at 358 m; the village itself is at 258 m. [11]

The village sits 100 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at VOLMUNSTER, 6.8 km away at 358 m, over 23 summers. [11]

That station sits 100 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 770 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at VOLMUNSTER, 6.8 km away at 358 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57590/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57590/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57590/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57590/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57732
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57089
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57738
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Lagrange65865 km SW26115.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Béguios64919 km SW25910.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Baraing39286 km SW25715.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Livrade31782 km SW25513.1No daily shopsno figures
Wintersbourg5747 km SW26217.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Labatmale64885 km SW25714.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Wintersbourg5747 km SW26217.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Baraing39286 km SW25715.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Livrade31782 km SW25513.1No daily shopsno figures
Lagrange65865 km SW26115.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Labatmale64885 km SW25714.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Béguios64919 km SW25910.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Rolbing'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
Wintersbourg5747 km SW26217.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Ablaincourt-Pressoir80342 km W26314.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Buissoncourt5497 km SW26215No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Gildwiller68166 km S26110.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Hannonville-Suzémont54117 km W26213.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Faymont70185 km S25312No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %