Linthal

Haut-Rhin · CC de la Région de Guebwiller · INSEE 68188

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

Few services 27.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Linthal (INSEE 68188) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de la Région de Guebwiller. Population 586 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/68188-linthal

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 17,201 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	25	0
Social	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.64	10	6.45
Housing mix	0.25	5	1.23

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

3 × Restaurant (AUBERGE LA VALLEE DES TILLEULS · EVIDENCE). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	3	AUBERGE LA VALLEE DES TILLEULS · EVIDENCE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 640 peak 2012: 646 2023: 586 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 646 (2012) → 586 (2023): -9.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 512 (1990) → 586 (2023): 14.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 462, of which 37.7 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.4 km EPharmacy — 4.8 km SEGP — 4.9 km SEFood shop — 5.1 km SE 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 (Lautenbach): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Buhl): 5.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Buhl): 4.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Buhl): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Linthal): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.7

Days at or below 0 °C 71.3

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 71 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LINTHAL_SAPC weather station, 1.3 km away at 488 m; the village itself is at 482 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MARKSTEIN CRETE, 7.7 km away at 1,184 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 702 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, 1.3 km away at 488 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 — 68188/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68188/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68188/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68188/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68177
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68058
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68188
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
Essert-Romand	74	197 km S	526	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Salperwick	62	474 km NW	521	31	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 32 %
Le Reposoir	74	220 km S	565	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Puy-Saint-Pierre	05	342 km S	518	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Banne	07	460 km SW	648	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Trémolat	24	591 km SW	624	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 35 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Essert-Romand	74	197 km S	526	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Reposoir	74	220 km S	565	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Puy-Saint-Pierre	05	342 km S	518	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Banne	07	460 km SW	648	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Salperwick	62	474 km NW	521	31	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 32 %
Trémolat	24	591 km SW	624	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 35 % · 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 Linthal'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
Villers-en-Arthies	95	418 km W	498	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Manou	28	460 km W	608	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Marcel-l'Éclairé	69	308 km SW	575	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cleebourg	67	130 km NE	626	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Mézy-Moulins	02	293 km NW	558	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Rueil-la-Gadelière	28	463 km W	465	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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