Lautenbach

Identity

Lautenbach (INSEE 68177) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de la Région de Guebwiller. Population 1,544 (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/68177-lautenbach

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 54 % of the 11,409 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.

Services

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

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA RIPAILLE DES CHAUMES). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (SAN REMO · AMORE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LOULOU SERVICES). ^[4]

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

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LAUTENBACH). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Nursery school (maternelle), 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Bank.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 1,574 (2012) → 1,544 (2023): -1.9 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,394 (1990) → 1,544 (2023): 10.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 784, of which 1.7 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Lautenbach): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Buhl): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Buhl): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Buhl): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Lautenbach): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LINTHAL_SAPC weather station, 3.4 km away at 488 m; the village itself is at 394 m. ^[11]

The village sits 94 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MARKSTEIN CRETE, 9.7 km away at 1,184 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 790 m above 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 1,328 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LINTHAL_SAPC, 3.4 km away at 488 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

No price figures: this département keeps the livre foncier rather than the cadastre, so its transactions are not published in DVF at all. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68177/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. DATAtourisme 2026-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/5/47de339d-71e1-366d-ba5c-a227cbbd3aa7— “Marché d'EnVies - produits bio et locaux”(unverified)
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68177/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68177/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68177/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68177
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68058
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025