Aspach-Michelbach

Haut-Rhin · CC de Thann-Cernay · INSEE 68012

A food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school.

Partly served 41.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aspach-Michelbach (INSEE 68012) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de Thann-Cernay. Population 1,747 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Michelbach (68206). ^[3]

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/68012-aspach-michelbach

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 10,516 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0	10	0
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	1	5	5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE OLIVIERS). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[4]

3 × Restaurant (SARL DOMAINE SAINT LOUP · GUARRERA SILVIO). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar. ^[5]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BRUNO SIMONET, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Bank (CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DU PAYS DE THANN). ^[4]

8 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE PASTELLE · CORINNE RESCH COIFFURE A DOMICILE · CRAZY TIFF). ^[4,5]

1 × Hotel (DOMAINE SAINT-LOUP). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE OLIVIERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	3	SARL DOMAINE SAINT LOUP · GUARRERA SILVIO	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [4,5]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	BRUNO SIMONET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	1	CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DU PAYS DE THANN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Hairdresser	8	COIFFURE PASTELLE · CORINNE RESCH COIFFURE A DOMICILE · CRAZY TIFF	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	1	DOMAINE SAINT-LOUP	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 708 peak 2012: 1,826 2023: 1,747 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,826 (2012) → 1,747 (2023): -4.3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,103 (1990) → 1,747 (2023): 58.4 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 760, of which 0 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, GP Food shop — 1.4 km SPrimary school — 2.0 km SEPharmacy — 3.1 km N 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 (Aspach-Michelbach): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Aspach-Michelbach): 1.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Aspach-Michelbach): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Vieux-Thann): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Aspach-le-Bas): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.4

Days at or below 0 °C 61.8

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the THANN weather station, 3.7 km away at 338 m; the village itself is at 311 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MULHOUSE, 12.2 km away at 245 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 66 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,080 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at THANN, 3.7 km away at 338 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68012/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68012/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68012/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68012/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68012
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68348
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68011
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
Nivelle	59	401 km NW	1,406	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Heimsbrunn	68	8.8 km SE	1,314	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Bois-Grenier	59	445 km NW	1,775	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Quintal	74	229 km S	1,257	42.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Stuckange	57	185 km N	1,515	37.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 78 %
Cairon	14	581 km W	2,066	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Heimsbrunn	68	8.8 km SE	1,314	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Stuckange	57	185 km N	1,515	37.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 78 %
Quintal	74	229 km S	1,257	42.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Nivelle	59	401 km NW	1,406	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Bois-Grenier	59	445 km NW	1,775	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Cairon	14	581 km W	2,066	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Aspach-Michelbach'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
Heimsbrunn	68	8.8 km SE	1,314	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Hirtzbach	68	21 km S	1,418	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Monthyon	77	346 km NW	1,756	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Chanonat	63	385 km SW	1,729	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Radegonde	12	516 km SW	1,793	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Furdenheim	67	99 km N	1,620	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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