Steinbach

Haut-Rhin · CC de Thann-Cernay · INSEE 68322

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

No daily shops 19.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Steinbach (INSEE 68322) is in Haut-Rhin (68), part of CC de Thann-Cernay. Population 1,379 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/68322-steinbach

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 12,201 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.7	10	7
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.83

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU SILBERTHAL). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (STEINBACH RP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'INSTANT COIFFURE BY MEL). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE DU SILBERTHAL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU SILBERTHAL	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	STEINBACH RP	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	L'INSTANT COIFFURE BY MEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 904 2023: 1,379 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,356 (2012) → 1,379 (2023): 1.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,149 (1990) → 1,379 (2023): 20 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 695, of which 1.7 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.5 km EBakery — 2.0 km SEPharmacy — 2.1 km SEFood shop — 2.4 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 (Cernay): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cernay): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Uffholtz): 1.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Cernay): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Steinbach): 0 km to the west (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. ^[11]

Measured at the THANN weather station, 4 km away at 338 m; the village itself is at 358 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MULHOUSE, 12.9 km away at 245 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 113 m below 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 940 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at WATTWILLER, 2.4 km away at 371 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 — 68322/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68322/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68322/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 68322/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68063
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68342
INSEE BPE 2025 — 68322
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
Compertrix	51	242 km NW	1,308	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Grugies	02	361 km NW	1,280	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Aulnay-sur-Mauldre	78	411 km W	1,180	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Notre-Dame-de-Mésage	38	324 km S	1,129	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 97 %
Béning-lès-Saint-Avold	57	148 km N	1,095	20.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Kuntzig	57	182 km N	1,359	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 78 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Béning-lès-Saint-Avold	57	148 km N	1,095	20.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Kuntzig	57	182 km N	1,359	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 78 %
Compertrix	51	242 km NW	1,308	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Notre-Dame-de-Mésage	38	324 km S	1,129	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 97 %
Grugies	02	361 km NW	1,280	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Aulnay-sur-Mauldre	78	411 km W	1,180	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · 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 Steinbach'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
Compertrix	51	242 km NW	1,308	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Aulnay-sur-Mauldre	78	411 km W	1,180	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Teting-sur-Nied	57	142 km N	1,258	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Eschentzwiller	68	22 km SE	1,527	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chamigny	77	322 km NW	1,480	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Hochstatt	68	16 km SE	2,173	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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