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Bernardswiller

Bas-Rhin · CC du Pays de Sainte-Odile · INSEE 67031

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

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bernardswiller (INSEE 67031) is in Bas-Rhin (67), part of CC du Pays de Sainte-Odile. Population 1,473 (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/67031-bernardswiller

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 11,776 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 food0.21255.27
Social0.2203.93
Education0.39103.93
Health0.32103.16
Public & culture050
Population trend0.89108.95
Housing mix0.9754.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 1 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (GREGS BREDELE · AU P'TIT SUCRE). [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (SARL LE MARRONNIER). [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE ETS CATHOLIQUE). [3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VALÉRIE HEBINGER, MÉDECIN · PATRICK NICOL, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Bank (CREDIT MUTUEL EHN-LANDSBERG). [3]

2 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE STUDIO ST JEAN). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)2GREGS BREDELE · AU P'TIT SUCREINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1SARL LE MARRONNIERINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE ETS CATHOLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)2VALÉRIE HEBINGER, MÉDECIN · PATRICK NICOL, MÉDECININSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Bank1CREDIT MUTUEL EHN-LANDSBERGINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser2COIFFURE STUDIO ST JEANINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 989 2023: 1,473 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,425 (2012) → 1,473 (2023): 3.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,056 (1990) → 1,473 (2023): 39.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 694, of which 1.6 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 0.5 km S (Bernardswiller)GP — 0.7 km S (Bernardswiller)Food shop — 1.5 km NE (Obernai)Pharmacy — 1.6 km NE (Obernai)
In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.5 km SGP — 0.7 km SFood shop — 1.5 km NEPharmacy — 1.6 km NE 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 (Bernardswiller): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Obernai): 1.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Bernardswiller): 0.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Obernai): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Bernardswiller): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LE HOHWALD weather station, 9.5 km away at 785 m; the village itself is at 224 m. [10]

The village sits 561 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at BELMONT, 15.4 km away at 1,065 m, over 18 summers. [10]

That station sits 841 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 868 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at OTTROTT, 3.7 km away at 332 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

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. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67031/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67031/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67031/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67031/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67031
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67348
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Otterswiller6731 km N1,30935.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Deyme31718 km SW1,46841.1Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Dogneville8879 km W1,52133.6Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Eckwersheim6731 km NE1,41937Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Altorf679.0 km NE1,44734.2Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Ohlungen6744 km NE1,41834.6Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Altorf679.0 km NE1,44734.2Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Eckwersheim6731 km NE1,41937Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Otterswiller6731 km N1,30935.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Ohlungen6744 km NE1,41834.6Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Dogneville8879 km W1,52133.6Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Deyme31718 km SW1,46841.1Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Bernardswiller'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
Otterswiller6731 km N1,30935.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Écalles76492 km W1,69834Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Niedernai673.8 km E1,22535.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Courmelles02319 km W1,80824.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Coutevroult77342 km W1,18728.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Mardeuil51268 km W1,45721.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %