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Théding

Moselle · CA de Forbach Porte de France · INSEE 57669

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

Few services 28.4/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Théding (INSEE 57669) is in Moselle (57), part of CA de Forbach Porte de France. Population 2,408 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/57669-theding

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Pharmacy).

Better served than 8 % of the 8,461 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 food0.26256.56
Social0.2203.93
Education0100
Health0.2101.97
Public & culture050
Population trend0.67106.69
Housing mix0.9954.97

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 1 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 1 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 somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE KARMANN). [3,4]

1 × Supermarket (NORMA SARL). [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA MARMITE DU CARREFOUR). [3,4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE HANSER THIEBAUD). [3,4]

3 × Hairdresser (HOME COIFFURE). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE KARMANNINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket1NORMA SARLINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1LA MARMITE DU CARREFOURINSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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]
Pharmacy1PHARMACIE HANSER THIEBAUDINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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]
Hairdresser3HOME COIFFUREINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 1,559 peak 2017: 2,501 2023: 2,408 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,451 (2012) → 2,408 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 2,059 (1990) → 2,408 (2023): 16.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,172, of which 0.3 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPharmacy — 1.0 km S (Théding)Food shop — 1.3 km SW (Théding)Primary school — 1.4 km SW (Farébersviller)GP — 1.6 km SW (Farébersviller)
In the commune Bakery Pharmacy — 1.0 km SFood shop — 1.3 km SWPrimary school — 1.4 km SWGP — 1.6 km SW 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 (Théding): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Théding): 1.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Farébersviller): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Théding): 1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Farébersviller): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the SEINGBOUSE weather station, 4.6 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 303 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at SEINGBOUSE, 4.6 km away at 347 m, over 21 summers. [10]

An average of 762 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at SEINGBOUSE, 4.6 km away at 347 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Pharmacy

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57669/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57669/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57669/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57669/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57669
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57207
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vendin-lès-Béthune62345 km NW2,37449Partly servedSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-sous-Saint-Leu60327 km W2,28439.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré73406 km S1,99944.8Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Ségny01321 km S2,94149.5Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauveur31731 km SW2,24349Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Œting574.9 km N2,59938.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Œting574.9 km N2,59938.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ségny01321 km S2,94149.5Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-sous-Saint-Leu60327 km W2,28439.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vendin-lès-Béthune62345 km NW2,37449Partly servedSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré73406 km S1,99944.8Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauveur31731 km SW2,24349Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Théding'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
Villers-sous-Saint-Leu60327 km W2,28439.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Œting574.9 km N2,59938.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Annequin62336 km NW2,13335.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Chartrettes77315 km W2,63348.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pavace72508 km W2,00731.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Semécourt5756 km W1,02443.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %