Siersthal

Moselle · CC du Pays de Bitche · INSEE 57651

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

Few services 25.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Siersthal (INSEE 57651) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Pays de Bitche. Population 646 (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/57651-siersthal

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 16,749 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	0.46	10	4.6
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.65

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 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. ^[3]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE HOLBACH). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE HOLBACH	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 591 peak 1999: 694 2023: 646 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 638 (2012) → 646 (2023): 1.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 673 (1990) → 646 (2023): -4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 289, of which 3.5 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.2 km SBakery — 3.4 km SFood shop — 4.8 km WPharmacy — 5.4 km SE 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 (Enchenberg): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rohrbach-lès-Bitche): 4.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Enchenberg): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lemberg): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Siersthal): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12

Days at or below 0 °C 59.8

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VOLMUNSTER weather station, 9.4 km away at 358 m; the village itself is at 284 m. ^[12]

The village sits 74 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at VOLMUNSTER, 9.4 km away at 358 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 74 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 770 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at VOLMUNSTER, 9.4 km away at 358 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 — 57651/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57651/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57651/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57651/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57192
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57589
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57390
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57651
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
Coume	57	59 km W	593	27.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 68 %
Coucy	08	216 km W	536	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Barbe	57	77 km W	786	32.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Souligné-Flacé	72	553 km W	636	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
La Malhoure	22	725 km W	626	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bonnet-de-Chavagne	38	464 km S	655	32	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Coume	57	59 km W	593	27.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 68 %
Sainte-Barbe	57	77 km W	786	32.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Coucy	08	216 km W	536	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Bonnet-de-Chavagne	38	464 km S	655	32	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Souligné-Flacé	72	553 km W	636	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
La Malhoure	22	725 km W	626	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Siersthal'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
Coucy	08	216 km W	536	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Labruyère	60	353 km W	687	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Néry	60	333 km W	670	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Donnemain-Saint-Mamès	28	452 km W	654	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Savins	77	310 km W	617	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Auchy-la-Montagne	60	384 km W	562	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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