Heiligenstein

Bas-Rhin · CC du Pays de Barr · INSEE 67189

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

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Heiligenstein (INSEE 67189) is in Bas-Rhin (67), part of CC du Pays de Barr. Population 925 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/67189-heiligenstein

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 14,834 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.77	10	7.67
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.53

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 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BIECHEL FRERES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AU RAISIN D'OR). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (GR. SCOLAIRE LES HIRONDELLES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (AUDREY COIFF@HOME). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE RELAIS DU KLEVENER). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	1	BIECHEL FRERES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	AU RAISIN D'OR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	GR. SCOLAIRE LES HIRONDELLES	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	1	AUDREY COIFF@HOME	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE RELAIS DU KLEVENER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 608 peak 2007: 987 2023: 925 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 962 (2012) → 925 (2023): -3.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 730 (1990) → 925 (2023): 26.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 468, of which 4.7 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 1.7 km SFood shop — 1.8 km SPharmacy — 1.8 km S 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 (Heiligenstein): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barr): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Barr): 1.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Barr): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Heiligenstein): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.9

Days at or below 0 °C 48.6

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE HOHWALD weather station, 7.5 km away at 785 m; the village itself is at 270 m. ^[10]

The village sits 515 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, 13.7 km away at 1,065 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 795 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 724 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BARR, 1.8 km away at 193 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67189/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67189/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67189/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67189/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 67189
INSEE BPE 2025 — 67021
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
Torpes	25	182 km SW	995	38.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Wickerschwihr	68	35 km S	742	38.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Marcy	69	349 km SW	916	43.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Marcq	78	417 km W	802	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Apach	57	139 km NW	1,072	24.6	Few services	no figures
Agnos	64	856 km SW	1,044	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Wickerschwihr	68	35 km S	742	38.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Apach	57	139 km NW	1,072	24.6	Few services	no figures
Torpes	25	182 km SW	995	38.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Marcy	69	349 km SW	916	43.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Marcq	78	417 km W	802	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Agnos	64	856 km SW	1,044	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Heiligenstein'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
Saint-Gervais	95	424 km W	878	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Wangen	67	22 km N	639	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vimont	14	566 km W	887	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Brêmes	62	479 km NW	1,324	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Barembach	67	17 km W	810	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Balinghem	62	480 km NW	1,220	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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