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Bisel

Haut-Rhin · CC Sundgau · INSEE 68039

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

No daily shops 19/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bisel (INSEE 68039) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC Sundgau. Population 537 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/68039-bisel

Vitality score

Vitality score 19/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 17,590 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.51105.06
Housing mix0.9554.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 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 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (CORRIERI). [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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]
Restaurant1CORRIERIINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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

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

Trajectory

1968: 487 peak 1999: 602 2023: 537 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 564 (2012) → 537 (2023): -4.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 534 (1990) → 537 (2023): 0.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 258, of which 2.3 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.4 km W (Seppois-le-Haut)Food shop — 2.7 km W (Seppois-le-Haut)Bakery — 3.0 km W (Seppois-le-Bas)Pharmacy — 3.0 km W (Seppois-le-Bas)GP — 5.4 km E (Riespach)
Primary school — 2.4 km WFood shop — 2.7 km WBakery — 3.0 km WPharmacy — 3.0 km WGP — 5.4 km E 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 (Seppois-le-Bas): 3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Seppois-le-Haut): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Riespach): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Seppois-le-Bas): 3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Seppois-le-Haut): 2.4 km to the west (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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 72 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the CARSPACH weather station, 10.7 km away at 332 m; the village itself is at 407 m. [11]

The village sits 75 m above 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at ALTKIRCH, 9.6 km away at 350 m, over 10 summers. [11]

That station sits 57 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,093 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at HINDLINGEN, 7.5 km away at 350 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 — 68039/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68039/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68039/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68039/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68305
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68306
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68273
  11. 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
Magstatt-le-Bas6818 km NE51724.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Marsilly57187 km N58224.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Flagey-Echézeaux21174 km W48520.1Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Florentin36411 km W49720.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
La Veuve51271 km NW60221Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pout33658 km SW61625Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 42 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Magstatt-le-Bas6818 km NE51724.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Flagey-Echézeaux21174 km W48520.1Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Marsilly57187 km N58224.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Veuve51271 km NW60221Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Florentin36411 km W49720.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pout33658 km SW61625Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 42 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Bisel'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
Magstatt-le-Bas6818 km NE51724.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Marsilly57187 km N58224.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Veuve51271 km NW60221Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Dambenois2526 km W73321.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Vorges-les-Pins25106 km SW56232.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Dahlenheim67119 km N76224.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %