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Nambsheim

Haut-Rhin · CC Alsace Rhin Brisach · INSEE 68230

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 18.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Nambsheim (INSEE 68230) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC Alsace Rhin Brisach. Population 576 (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/68230-nambsheim

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 17,292 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
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.7753.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 1 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE NAMBSHEIM). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. [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]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE NAMBSHEIMINSEE BPE 1 [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: 261 peak 2012: 601 2023: 576 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 601 (2012) → 576 (2023): -4.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 345 (1990) → 576 (2023): 67 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 299, of which 11.4 % second homes and 6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 1.6 km W (Balgau)GP — 2.7 km SW (Fessenheim)Pharmacy — 2.7 km SW (Fessenheim)Bakery — 2.8 km SW (Fessenheim)Food shop — 3.1 km SW (Fessenheim)
Primary school — 1.6 km WGP — 2.7 km SWPharmacy — 2.7 km SWBakery — 2.8 km SWFood shop — 3.1 km SW 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 (Fessenheim): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Fessenheim): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Fessenheim): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Fessenheim): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Balgau): 1.6 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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 70 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the COLMAR-MEYENHEIM weather station, 11.6 km away at 207 m; the village itself is at 203 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at COLMAR-MEYENHEIM, 11.6 km away at 207 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 672 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at NEUF-BRISACH, 10.3 km away at 195 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

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. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68230/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68230/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68230/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68230/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68091
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 68016
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Maisons-en-Champagne51244 km NW55216.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Cauroy-lès-Hermonville51310 km NW51419No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Chartainvilliers28450 km W65415.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Chaucenne25144 km SW52915.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Cardonnette80441 km NW51315No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Gommecourt78458 km W61321.1Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chaucenne25144 km SW52915.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Maisons-en-Champagne51244 km NW55216.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Cauroy-lès-Hermonville51310 km NW51419No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Cardonnette80441 km NW51315No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Chartainvilliers28450 km W65415.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Gommecourt78458 km W61321.1Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Nambsheim'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
Prompsat63406 km SW47224.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Baltzenheim6818 km N58114.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Kœtzingue6834 km S58525.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Vecqueville52189 km W50215.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Galfingue6836 km SW80319.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Marliens21196 km SW60726.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %