Sewen

Haut-Rhin · CC de la Vallée de la Doller et du Soultzbach · INSEE 68307

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

Few services 32.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sewen (INSEE 68307) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de la Vallée de la Doller et du Soultzbach. Population 480 (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/68307-sewen

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 17,890 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	0.86	10	8.65
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.39	10	3.91
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.19

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 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 (HOTEL DES VOSGES · FERME AUBERGE DU BAERENBACH · LA CABANE). ^[4,3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SEWEN AP). ^[4]

2 × Hotel (HOTEL DES VOSGES · AUBERGE FLUHR). ^[4,3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	HOTEL DES VOSGES · FERME AUBERGE DU BAERENBACH · LA CABANE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 2 [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	1	SEWEN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	2	HOTEL DES VOSGES · AUBERGE FLUHR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 604 2023: 480 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 529 (2012) → 480 (2023): -9.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 539 (1990) → 480 (2023): -10.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 247, of which 8.1 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.6 km EBakery — 2.8 km EGP — 7.4 km SEPharmacy — 7.7 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 (Oberbruck): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Oberbruck): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Masevaux-Niederbruck): 7.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Masevaux-Niederbruck): 7.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.6

Days at or below 0 °C 55

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SEWEN - LAC ALFELD_SAPC weather station, 2.6 km away at 620 m; the village itself is at 503 m. ^[11]

The village sits 117 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MARKSTEIN CRETE, 15.9 km away at 1,184 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 681 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 1,927 mm of rain a year, spread over 152 days — about 12.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SEWEN FOERSTEL, 0.3 km away at 512 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 — 68307/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68307/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68307/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68307/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68239
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68307
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
Touget	32	652 km SW	495	33.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 93 % · humidity 43 %
Preuilly	18	364 km W	477	33.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Jouy	89	295 km W	510	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Courgenard	72	461 km W	454	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Crillon	60	412 km NW	488	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mantoche	70	112 km W	458	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mantoche	70	112 km W	458	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Jouy	89	295 km W	510	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Preuilly	18	364 km W	477	33.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Crillon	60	412 km NW	488	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Courgenard	72	461 km W	454	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Touget	32	652 km SW	495	33.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 93 % · 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 Sewen'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
Jouy	89	295 km W	510	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Courgenard	72	461 km W	454	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Crillon	60	412 km NW	488	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Myennes	58	300 km W	535	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Gougenheim	67	111 km NE	531	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Gaye	51	250 km NW	564	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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