Sainte-Ruffine

Moselle · Metz Métropole · INSEE 57624

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

Few services 33/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Ruffine (INSEE 57624) is in Moselle (57), part of Metz Métropole. Population 623 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/57624-sainte-ruffine

Vitality score

Vitality score 33/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 16,844 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	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.84	10	8.37
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

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

1 × Supermarket (LIDL). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PRIVEE LE PRE EN BULLE). ^[3]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURA GUICHON, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Restaurant, Café / bar, 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	1	LIDL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 PRIVEE LE PRE EN BULLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	LAURA GUICHON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 390 2023: 623 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 530 (2012) → 623 (2023): 17.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 466 (1990) → 623 (2023): 33.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 315, of which 1 % second homes and 1.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.5 km NGP — 0.5 km NBakery — 0.7 km NWPharmacy — 0.7 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 (Rozérieulles): 0.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Ruffine): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sainte-Ruffine): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Rozérieulles): 0.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sainte-Ruffine): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.2

Days at or below 0 °C 59

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 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the METZ-FRESCATY weather station, 4.5 km away at 192 m; the village itself is at 220 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at METZ-FRESCATY, 4.5 km away at 192 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 721 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at METZ-FRESCATY, 4.5 km away at 192 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57624/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57624/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57624/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57624/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57601
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57624
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
Blies-Ébersing	57	76 km E	617	26.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Tilloy-lez-Cambrai	59	240 km NW	695	27.6	Few services	no figures
Wolxheim	67	120 km SE	961	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bronvaux	57	10 km N	503	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Plesnois	57	7.5 km N	772	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lixing-lès-Rouhling	57	66 km E	799	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Plesnois	57	7.5 km N	772	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bronvaux	57	10 km N	503	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lixing-lès-Rouhling	57	66 km E	799	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Blies-Ébersing	57	76 km E	617	26.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Wolxheim	67	120 km SE	961	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Tilloy-lez-Cambrai	59	240 km NW	695	27.6	Few services	no figures

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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 Sainte-Ruffine'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
Wolxheim	67	120 km SE	961	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bronvaux	57	10 km N	503	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Plesnois	57	7.5 km N	772	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Falaise	78	311 km W	609	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Betting	57	52 km E	858	37.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Areines	41	396 km W	572	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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