Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin · CC de la Vallée de Munster · INSEE 68051

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

Partly served 45.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin (INSEE 68051) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de la Vallée de Munster. Population 819 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 45.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 15,511 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.46	10	4.59
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.11

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU PETIT SCHLITTEUR). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (FERME AUBERGE DU BUCHWALD · SARL FERME AUBERGE DU CHRISTELGUT). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-MARC BISCH, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU PETIT SCHLITTEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	FERME AUBERGE DU BUCHWALD · SARL FERME AUBERGE DU CHRISTELGUT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE INTERCOMMUNALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEAN-MARC BISCH, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BREITENBACH AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 834 peak 1999: 879 2023: 819 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 848 (2012) → 819 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 854 (1990) → 819 (2023): -4.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 525, of which 18.9 % second homes and 8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 1.5 km WPharmacy — 2.2 km W 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 (Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Muhlbach-sur-Munster): 1.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Metzeral): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14

Days at or below 0 °C 73.9

Muggy days a summer 0

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 74 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MUNSTER_SAPC weather station, 2.9 km away at 420 m; the village itself is at 445 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MUNSTER_SAPC, 2.9 km away at 420 m, over 17 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,221 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BREITENBACH, 0.3 km away at 466 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68051/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68051/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68051/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68051/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68051
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68204
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
Badaroux	48	474 km SW	930	48.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Dun-sur-Meuse	55	207 km NW	585	44	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Lussant	17	643 km W	1,004	43.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 43 %
Fréland	68	18 km N	1,288	42.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Bambiderstroff	57	126 km N	1,016	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vins-sur-Caramy	83	516 km S	936	49.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fréland	68	18 km N	1,288	42.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Bambiderstroff	57	126 km N	1,016	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Dun-sur-Meuse	55	207 km NW	585	44	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Badaroux	48	474 km SW	930	48.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Vins-sur-Caramy	83	516 km S	936	49.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Lussant	17	643 km W	1,004	43.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin'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
Bambiderstroff	57	126 km N	1,016	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bèze	21	150 km SW	739	53.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gingolph	74	183 km S	903	61.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Vétheuil	95	414 km W	849	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Montreux-Vieux	68	45 km S	928	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Muhlbach-sur-Munster	68	1.3 km W	818	47.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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