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Lutzelhouse

Bas-Rhin · CC de la Vallée de la Bruche · INSEE 67276

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

Few services 38.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lutzelhouse (INSEE 67276) is in Bas-Rhin (67), part of CC de la Vallée de la Bruche. Population 1,959 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/67276-lutzelhouse

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 9,765 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 food0.34258.55
Social0200
Education0.39103.93
Health0.51105.13
Public & culture0.250.98
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.8654.28

Services

What is here, at a glance

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

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

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHRISTIAN BECK). [3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). [3]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FABIEN CHAZERAND, MÉDECIN · NOELLA BETSCH, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LUTZELHOUSE). [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LUTZELHOUSE AP). [3]

2 × Hairdresser (LES CISEAUX DE JULIE). [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Library. [4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE SAUNIERINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)2BOUCHERIE CHRISTIAN BECKINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)1ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)2FABIEN CHAZERAND, MÉDECIN · NOELLA BETSCH, MÉDECININSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy1PHARMACIE DE LUTZELHOUSEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1LUTZELHOUSE APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser2LES CISEAUX DE JULIEINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. [5]

Trajectory

1968: 980 2023: 1,959 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,849 (2012) → 1,959 (2023): 5.9 % over 10 years. [6,1]

Population 1,257 (1990) → 1,959 (2023): 55.8 % over 30 years. [7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 927, of which 7.2 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. [8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 km
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Lutzelhouse): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Food shop (Lutzelhouse): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Lutzelhouse): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Lutzelhouse): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Lutzelhouse): 0.3 km to the north (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 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, 12.5 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, 12.7 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 1,185 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at RUSS, 3.5 km away at 284 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67276/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. DATAtourisme 2026-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/5/c1182c53-6390-388b-840d-9174e6a84223— “Marché de Lutzelhouse”(unverified)
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67276/2012
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67276/1990
  8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67276/logement/2023
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 67276
  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
La Saussaye27468 km W1,94141Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 89 %
Saint-Augustin77314 km W1,88844.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Tallud79606 km W1,96141.2Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Remy60350 km W1,92833.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Ittenheim6724 km NE2,10847.4Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Étival-lès-le-Mans72537 km W1,82635.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ittenheim6724 km NE2,10847.4Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Augustin77314 km W1,88844.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Remy60350 km W1,92833.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Saussaye27468 km W1,94141Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 89 %
Étival-lès-le-Mans72537 km W1,82635.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Le Tallud79606 km W1,96141.2Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · 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 Lutzelhouse'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
Saint-Augustin77314 km W1,88844.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Remy60350 km W1,92833.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Étival-lès-le-Mans72537 km W1,82635.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Trois-Rivières80370 km NW1,48232.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Sours28420 km W1,95946.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Perrignier74254 km S1,90555.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %