Sorbey

Moselle · CC Haut Chemin - Pays de Pange · INSEE 57656

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

No daily shops 19.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sorbey (INSEE 57656) is in Moselle (57), part of CC Haut Chemin - Pays de Pange. Population 387 (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/57656-sorbey

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 18,035 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.53	10	5.32
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	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: 186 2023: 387 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 336 (2012) → 387 (2023): 15.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 375 (1990) → 387 (2023): 3.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 163, of which 1.8 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.1 km NEGP — 2.4 km NFood shop — 2.5 km NPharmacy — 2.7 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 (Sanry-sur-Nied): 2.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Courcelles-sur-Nied): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Courcelles-sur-Nied): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Courcelles-sur-Nied): 2.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sorbey): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 76.6

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COURCELLES-CHAUSSY weather station, 8.9 km away at 225 m; the village itself is at 232 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at AEROPORT METZ-NANCY-LORRAINE, 9 km away at 260 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 776 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at COURCELLES-CHAUSSY, 8.9 km away at 225 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

No price figures: this département keeps the livre foncier rather than the cadastre, so its transactions are not published in DVF at all. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57656/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57656/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57656/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57656/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57627
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57156
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57656
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Villers-Saint-Genest	60	249 km W	386	23.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Barcy	77	251 km W	387	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Coisy	80	306 km W	387	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Frébuans	39	273 km S	386	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Reignat	63	429 km SW	382	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Ancretiéville-Saint-Victor	76	392 km W	382	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villers-Saint-Genest	60	249 km W	386	23.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Barcy	77	251 km W	387	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Frébuans	39	273 km S	386	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Coisy	80	306 km W	387	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Ancretiéville-Saint-Victor	76	392 km W	382	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Reignat	63	429 km SW	382	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 57 % · 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 Sorbey'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
Vittoncourt	57	8.3 km E	390	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Montgueux	10	192 km SW	386	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Appenans	25	179 km S	385	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Zaessingue	68	176 km SE	375	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Véronnes	21	186 km SW	386	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hadigny-les-Verrières	88	81 km S	374	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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