Mertzen

Haut-Rhin · CC Sud Alsace Largue · INSEE 68202

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

Few services 20/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mertzen (INSEE 68202) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC Sud Alsace Largue. Population 200 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 15,961 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.58	10	5.81
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

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 (SAS LE MOULIN DE MERTZEN). ^[3,4]

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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	1	SAS LE MOULIN DE MERTZEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 168 peak 2012: 222 2023: 200 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 222 (2012) → 200 (2023): -9.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 185 (1990) → 200 (2023): 8.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 100, of which 1 % second homes and 10 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.3 km SFood shop — 3.8 km SEBakery — 4.4 km SWGP — 4.4 km NPharmacy — 4.4 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 (Suarce): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Friesen): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dannemarie): 4.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Dannemarie): 4.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Hindlingen): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.4

Days at or below 0 °C 64.8

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CARSPACH weather station, 7.8 km away at 332 m; the village itself is at 335 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CARSPACH, 7.8 km away at 332 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,093 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at HINDLINGEN, 2 km away at 350 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

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. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68202/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68202/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68202/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68202/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 90095
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68098
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68068
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68137
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Charmois	54	119 km NW	201	19.4	No daily shops	no figures
Aast	64	738 km SW	202	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Braillans	25	84 km W	203	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Étouvelles	02	338 km NW	208	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Heiwiller	68	15 km E	190	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Trouans	10	244 km NW	200	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 97 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Heiwiller	68	15 km E	190	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Braillans	25	84 km W	203	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Charmois	54	119 km NW	201	19.4	No daily shops	no figures
Trouans	10	244 km NW	200	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 97 %
Étouvelles	02	338 km NW	208	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Aast	64	738 km SW	202	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · 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 Mertzen'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
Braillans	25	84 km W	203	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Heiwiller	68	15 km E	190	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Herbéviller	54	111 km N	214	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Jonchery-sur-Suippe	51	262 km NW	223	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Dieppe-sous-Douaumont	55	217 km NW	187	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Fréménil	54	113 km N	222	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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