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Kesseldorf

Bas-Rhin · CC de la Plaine du Rhin · INSEE 67235

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

No daily shops 16.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Kesseldorf (INSEE 67235) is in Bas-Rhin (67), part of CC de la Plaine du Rhin. Population 452 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). [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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/67235-kesseldorf

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 18 % of the 17,953 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 trend0.93109.26
Housing mix0.9854.91

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 (ESTEL'HAIR). [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]
Hairdresser1ESTEL'HAIRINSEE 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

Weekly market: Tuesday 15h30 jusqu'à 18h00. [5,6]

Confirmed by two independent sources: Commune website and DATAtourisme.

Trajectory

1968: 307 2023: 452 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 428 (2012) → 452 (2023): 5.6 % over 10 years. [7,1]

Population 317 (1990) → 452 (2023): 42.6 % over 30 years. [8,1]

Dwellings (2023): 215, of which 0.9 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. [9]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 1.6 km SE (Beinheim)Bakery — 1.7 km SE (Beinheim)Pharmacy — 1.7 km SE (Beinheim)Food shop — 1.8 km SE (Beinheim)Primary school — 2.0 km SE (Beinheim)
GP — 1.6 km SEBakery — 1.7 km SEPharmacy — 1.7 km SEFood shop — 1.8 km SEPrimary school — 2.0 km SE 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 (Beinheim): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Food shop (Beinheim): 1.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

GP (Beinheim): 1.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Beinheim): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Beinheim): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the STATTMATTEN SA weather station, 10.1 km away at 121 m; the village itself is at 127 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at STATTMATTEN SA, 10.1 km away at 121 m, over 11 summers. [11]

An average of 847 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at SELTZ, 3.3 km away at 120 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 — 67235/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. Commune website 2026-10— https://kesseldorf.fr/le-marche-paysan-de-kesseldorf-prend-ses-couleurs-de-printemps/— “à partir de maintenant tous les Mardi s de 15h30 jusqu'à 18h00”
  6. DATAtourisme 2026-03— https://data.datatourisme.fr/5/b0e877a3-d1f8-32ad-a7e8-2fff01c9f904— “Des stands de produits régionaux provenant de producteurs locaux vous y attendent chaque mardi.”
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67235/2012
  8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67235/1990
  9. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67235/logement/2023
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67025
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Selles51280 km W46417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Puisieulx51291 km W46614.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Bellefontaine95409 km W47411.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 49 % · humidity 79 %
Lupcourt54138 km W42817.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Romeries59359 km NW47114No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Virecourt54136 km W48714.1No daily shopsno figures
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Virecourt54136 km W48714.1No daily shopsno figures
Lupcourt54138 km W42817.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Selles51280 km W46417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Puisieulx51291 km W46614.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Romeries59359 km NW47114No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Bellefontaine95409 km W47411.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 49 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Kesseldorf'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
Montaigu39309 km SW4278.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Baltzenheim6895 km SW58114.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Furchhausen6749 km W37612No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Allichamps52236 km W34810.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Engwiller6733 km W46519.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Munwiller68118 km SW46121.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %