Sarre-Union

Bas-Rhin · CC de l'Alsace Bossue · INSEE 67434

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

Served 71.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 99 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sarre-Union (INSEE 67434) is in Bas-Rhin (67), part of CC de l'Alsace Bossue. Population 2,731 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 71.6/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 99 % of the 7,728 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	0.76	25	18.95
Social	0.97	20	19.43
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	0.36	10	3.65
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX MILLE DOUCEURS 3 · BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE EBERHARD). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (GLANGLOFF PATRICK- ARTISAN BOUCHER · DE LA FOURCHE A LA FOURCHETTE). ^[3,4]

4 × Supermarket (ANSOL · LIDL · ALDI MARCHE · CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (LINFA - TRAITEUR CHINOIS · OZTURK TULIN · PIZZERIA DA VINCI · MULLER - GREINER). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (L'EXCELSIOR · BRASSERIE DE LA FONTAINE · LE STRATUS · BAR LE GUEPARD). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOL PRIM PUB ETS INTC.). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PIERRE CLAUDE). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PATRICK HAUSS, MÉDECIN · STÉPHANIE MOOG, MÉDECIN · ADRIAN PAIS, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE HAUSS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAINT GEORGES · PHARMACIE DU LION). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

2 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ALSACE - SITE DE SARRE-UNION · 67 - BDA - SITE DE SARRE-UNION BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ALSACE). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (CENTRE SOCIO CULTUREL). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

6 × Bank (BANQUE POPULAIRE ALSACE LORRAINE CHAMPAGNE · CAISSE LOCALE CRED AGRIC MUT ALS BOSSUE · CREDIT AGRICOLE ALSACE VOSGES · SOCIETE GENERALE · CAISSE D'EPARGNE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (GRIBLING LYSIANE · SAINT ALGUE · CISEAUX DE LAURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

2 × Hotel (AUBERGE-HOTEL DU BOCKENHEIM · HOTEL A LA PORTE HAUTE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	AUX MILLE DOUCEURS 3 · BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE EBERHARD	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	GLANGLOFF PATRICK- ARTISAN BOUCHER · DE LA FOURCHE A LA FOURCHETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket	4	ANSOL · LIDL · ALDI MARCHE · CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	10	LINFA - TRAITEUR CHINOIS · OZTURK TULIN · PIZZERIA DA VINCI · MULLER - GREINER	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	L'EXCELSIOR · BRASSERIE DE LA FONTAINE · LE STRATUS · BAR LE GUEPARD	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOL PRIM PUB ETS INTC.	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PIERRE CLAUDE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	PATRICK HAUSS, MÉDECIN · STÉPHANIE MOOG, MÉDECIN · ADRIAN PAIS, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE HAUSS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE SAINT GEORGES · PHARMACIE DU LION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	2	BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ALSACE - SITE DE SARRE-UNION · 67 - BDA - SITE DE SARRE-UNION BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ALSACE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Cinema	1	CENTRE SOCIO CULTUREL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	6	BANQUE POPULAIRE ALSACE LORRAINE CHAMPAGNE · CAISSE LOCALE CRED AGRIC MUT ALS BOSSUE · CREDIT AGRICOLE ALSACE VOSGES · SOCIETE GENERALE · CAISSE D'EPARGNE	INSEE BPE 6 [3]
Hairdresser	3	GRIBLING LYSIANE · SAINT ALGUE · CISEAUX DE LAURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	2	AUBERGE-HOTEL DU BOCKENHEIM · HOTEL A LA PORTE HAUTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 2,965 peak 1999: 3,356 2023: 2,731 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,961 (2012) → 2,731 (2023): -7.8 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 3,159 (1990) → 2,731 (2023): -13.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,584, of which 1.8 % second homes and 18.8 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

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 (Sarre-Union): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sarre-Union): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sarre-Union): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sarre-Union): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sarre-Union): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12

Days at or below 0 °C 52

Muggy days a summer 1

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BERG weather station, 7.7 km away at 350 m; the village itself is at 244 m. ^[10]

The village sits 106 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 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BERG, 7.7 km away at 350 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 106 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 917 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SARREWERDEN, 4.4 km away at 235 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 — 67434/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/5/e6ac2c10-5ce1-3d41-8997-8eb1c6901387— “Marché hebdomadaire”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67434/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67434/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 67434/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 67434
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
Loiron-Ruillé	53	599 km W	2,758	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Wassy	52	165 km W	2,771	55.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Dieuze	57	31 km SW	2,770	71.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse	70	132 km SW	2,814	63.9	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Aigueperse	63	436 km SW	2,665	63.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Ayguesvives	31	743 km SW	2,812	63.6	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dieuze	57	31 km SW	2,770	71.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse	70	132 km SW	2,814	63.9	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Wassy	52	165 km W	2,771	55.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Aigueperse	63	436 km SW	2,665	63.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Loiron-Ruillé	53	599 km W	2,758	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Ayguesvives	31	743 km SW	2,812	63.6	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 66 % · 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 Sarre-Union'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
Loiron-Ruillé	53	599 km W	2,758	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Dieuze	57	31 km SW	2,770	71.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Auneuil	60	373 km W	2,898	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Vibraye	72	478 km W	2,523	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Lusigny-sur-Barse	10	221 km W	2,267	61.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Vendeuvre-sur-Barse	10	208 km W	2,225	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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