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Eschwiller

Bas-Rhin · CC de l'Alsace Bossue · INSEE 67134

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Eschwiller (INSEE 67134) is in Bas-Rhin (67), part of CC de l'Alsace Bossue. Population 173 (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/67134-eschwiller

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 15,096 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 food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.44104.4
Housing mix155

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (MEL'ISSA). [3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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]
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]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1MEL'ISSAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 186 peak 2012: 192 2023: 173 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 192 (2012) → 173 (2023): -9.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 184 (1990) → 173 (2023): -6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 79, of which 0 % second homes and 17.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 2.2 km S (Hirschland)Primary school — 2.4 km S (Hirschland)Bakery — 2.7 km W (Postroff)GP — 5.6 km E (Drulingen)Pharmacy — 5.8 km E (Drulingen)
Food shop — 2.2 km SPrimary school — 2.4 km SBakery — 2.7 km WGP — 5.6 km EPharmacy — 5.8 km E 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 (Postroff): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Hirschland): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Drulingen): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Drulingen): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Hirschland): 2.4 km to the south (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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the BERG weather station, 4 km away at 350 m; the village itself is at 300 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at BERG, 4 km away at 350 m, over 21 summers. [11]

An average of 822 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at BERG, 4 km away at 350 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67134/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67134/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67134/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67134/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57551
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67201
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67105
  11. 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
Bourscheid5711 km SE17316.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Anos64833 km SW17417.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 59 % · humidity 43 %
Cuiserey21212 km SW17217.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 80 %
Champvans70199 km SW1718.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Epvre5751 km W17712.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vaxy5743 km W16913.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bourscheid5711 km SE17316.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Vaxy5743 km W16913.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Epvre5751 km W17712.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Champvans70199 km SW1718.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Cuiserey21212 km SW17217.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 80 %
Anos64833 km SW17417.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 59 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Eschwiller'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
Bourscheid5711 km SE17316.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sauvillers-Mongival80350 km W17812.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vallier-sur-Marne52170 km SW17314.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Jetterswiller6731 km SE18012.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaine-Saint-Lucien60368 km W17617.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Kleingœft6731 km SE16916.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %