Sturzelbronn

Moselle · CC du Pays de Bitche · INSEE 57661

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sturzelbronn (INSEE 57661) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Pays de Bitche. Population 168 (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 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 14,884 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.44	10	4.44
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant. ^[4,3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (STURZELBRONN RP). ^[4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING DU MUHLENBACH · CAMPING LA BREMENDELL). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	STURZELBRONN RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	CAMPING DU MUHLENBACH · CAMPING LA BREMENDELL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 239 2023: 168 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 181 (2012) → 168 (2023): -7.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 178 (1990) → 168 (2023): -5.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 22.5 % second homes and 12.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 5.5 km SWBakery — 8.1 km SGP — 10.2 km SWFood shop — 10.3 km SWPharmacy — 11.0 km W 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 (Philippsbourg): 8.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Baerenthal): 10.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Baerenthal): 10.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bitche): 11 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Éguelshardt): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.9

Days at or below 0 °C 95.6▸

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 96 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MOUTERHOUSE weather station, 12.6 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 270 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at VOLMUNSTER, 16.6 km away at 358 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 88 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 960 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MOUTERHOUSE, 12.6 km away at 265 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 — 57661/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57661/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57661/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57661/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57541
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57046
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57089
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57188
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
Wildenstein	68	129 km S	155	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ennordres	18	425 km SW	204	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Campagne-d'Armagnac	32	819 km SW	213	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 1 % · humidity 7 %
Lain	89	352 km SW	172	11.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 %
Rossillon	01	389 km SW	166	22.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Caussiniojouls	34	700 km SW	164	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 35 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Wildenstein	68	129 km S	155	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Lain	89	352 km SW	172	11.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 %
Rossillon	01	389 km SW	166	22.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Ennordres	18	425 km SW	204	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Caussiniojouls	34	700 km SW	164	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 35 % · humidity 71 %
Campagne-d'Armagnac	32	819 km SW	213	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 1 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Sturzelbronn'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
Prébois	38	496 km S	170	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Clelles	38	491 km S	184	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-du-Mont-de-France	71	375 km SW	189	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Jasney	70	168 km SW	190	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Vodable	63	517 km SW	194	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lavars	38	490 km S	172	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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