Sentheim

Haut-Rhin · CC de la Vallée de la Doller et du Soultzbach · INSEE 68304

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

Few services 37.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sentheim (INSEE 68304) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de la Vallée de la Doller et du Soultzbach. Population 1,528 (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/68304-sentheim

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 11,473 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.81	10	8.15
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.97

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PASSION PROXIMITE SERVICES). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (PROXI). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR LA CIGOGNE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES TILLEULS). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

3 × Hairdresser (STEPH'N STYLE · L'ART-ISAN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PASSION PROXIMITE SERVICES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	PROXI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR LA CIGOGNE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES TILLEULS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	3	STEPH'N STYLE · L'ART-ISAN	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Wednesday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,018 peak 2012: 1,669 2023: 1,528 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,669 (2012) → 1,528 (2023): -8.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,162 (1990) → 1,528 (2023): 31.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 686, of which 0.3 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.0 km WBakery — 2.5 km WPharmacy — 4.5 km NW 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 (Lauw): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sentheim): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Lauw): 2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Masevaux-Niederbruck): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Sentheim): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.4

Days at or below 0 °C 61.8

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the THANN weather station, 6.7 km away at 338 m; the village itself is at 359 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at MULHOUSE, 17.7 km away at 245 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 114 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 1,476 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 11 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LAUW, 2.5 km away at 380 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68304/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/5/1a99e88e-4ece-3c0d-8481-9765a6a406c7— “Présence également au marché de Masevaux-Niederbruck les mercredis matins.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68304/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68304/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68304/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68304
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68201
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
Aucamville	82	631 km SW	1,562	50	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Merten	57	168 km N	1,444	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Rety	62	511 km NW	2,032	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Gauthier	77	320 km W	1,400	43.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Ascoux	45	360 km W	1,062	37.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 78 %
Maretz	59	368 km NW	1,402	29.5	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Merten	57	168 km N	1,444	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Gauthier	77	320 km W	1,400	43.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Ascoux	45	360 km W	1,062	37.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 78 %
Maretz	59	368 km NW	1,402	29.5	Few services	no figures
Rety	62	511 km NW	2,032	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Aucamville	82	631 km SW	1,562	50	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Sentheim'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
Favières	77	336 km W	1,316	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villiers-en-Lieu	52	189 km NW	1,469	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Éclaron-Braucourt-Sainte-Livière	52	187 km NW	2,008	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Folkling	57	155 km N	1,411	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lièpvre	68	60 km N	1,632	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Flavy-le-Martel	02	357 km NW	1,701	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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