Pfetterhouse

Haut-Rhin · CC Sud Alsace Largue · INSEE 68257

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

Partly served 40.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pfetterhouse (INSEE 68257) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC Sud Alsace Largue. Population 987 (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/68257-pfetterhouse

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 14,410 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.52	10	5.16
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SUNDGAU MARKET). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (L'ASSIETTE GOURMANDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (SALON DE COIFFURE CINDY). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SUNDGAU MARKET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	L'ASSIETTE GOURMANDE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	PFETTERHOUSE 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	1	SALON DE COIFFURE CINDY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 809 peak 2007: 1,035 2023: 987 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,029 (2012) → 987 (2023): -4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 971 (1990) → 987 (2023): 1.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 535, of which 4.1 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.9 km WPharmacy — 4.1 km NGP — 9.6 km E 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 (Réchésy): 3.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pfetterhouse): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Riespach): 9.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Seppois-le-Bas): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Pfetterhouse): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.1

Days at or below 0 °C 57.2

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LUCELLE_SAPC weather station, 10.3 km away at 690 m; the village itself is at 437 m. ^[12]

The village sits 253 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ALTKIRCH, 14.6 km away at 350 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 87 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[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, 8.4 km away at 350 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68257/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68257/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68257/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68257/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 90081
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68257
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68305
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
Mussig	67	85 km N	1,111	33.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ouges	21	160 km W	1,402	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Verneuil	51	314 km NW	836	48.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Durrenbach	67	162 km N	1,101	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Laroche-Saint-Cydroine	89	280 km W	1,185	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan	91	400 km W	982	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mussig	67	85 km N	1,111	33.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ouges	21	160 km W	1,402	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Durrenbach	67	162 km N	1,101	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Laroche-Saint-Cydroine	89	280 km W	1,185	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Verneuil	51	314 km NW	836	48.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan	91	400 km W	982	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Pfetterhouse'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
Durrenbach	67	162 km N	1,101	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan	91	400 km W	982	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Châtenay-sur-Seine	77	320 km W	1,049	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Harskirchen	67	160 km N	895	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Couvron-et-Aumencourt	02	359 km NW	926	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-le-Port	77	346 km W	1,025	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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