Mercey-le-Grand

Doubs · CC du Val Marnaysien · INSEE 25374

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

Few services 29.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mercey-le-Grand (INSEE 25374) is in Doubs (25), part of CC du Val Marnaysien. Population 520 (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/25374-mercey-le-grand

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 57 % of the 17,720 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.92	10	9.21
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SOCIETE D EXPLOITATION CHAPELAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE CAFE DE MERCEY LE GRAND). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (KARINE.L.M COIFF · ESP' HAIR COIFF). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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)	1	SOCIETE D EXPLOITATION CHAPELAIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Café / bar	1	LE CAFE DE MERCEY LE GRAND	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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	2	KARINE.L.M COIFF · ESP' HAIR COIFF	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 207 peak 2017: 542 2023: 520 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 502 (2012) → 520 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 366 (1990) → 520 (2023): 42.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 251, of which 4.8 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop GP — 1.3 km WPrimary school — 3.3 km NEBakery — 4.5 km NWPharmacy — 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 (Pagney): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mercey-le-Grand): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Romain): 1.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pagney): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Lantenne-Vertière): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.3

Days at or below 0 °C 67

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the DANNEMARIE-SUR- weather station, 10.4 km away at 267 m; the village itself is at 291 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at BESANCON, 19.3 km away at 306 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,057 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 8.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at DANNEMARIE-SUR-, 10.4 km away at 267 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 — 25374/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25374/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25374/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25374/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39402
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25374
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39464
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25326
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
Serazereux	28	355 km NW	536	27.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-Coppegueule	80	414 km NW	509	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Campet-et-Lamolère	40	615 km SW	506	24.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %
Morvillers	60	388 km NW	506	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Le Haut-Corlay	22	668 km W	658	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Vinzieux	07	225 km S	538	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vinzieux	07	225 km S	538	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Serazereux	28	355 km NW	536	27.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Morvillers	60	388 km NW	506	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Neuville-Coppegueule	80	414 km NW	509	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Campet-et-Lamolère	40	615 km SW	506	24.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %
Le Haut-Corlay	22	668 km W	658	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Mercey-le-Grand'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
Bettendorf	68	123 km E	469	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Rothbach	67	230 km NE	466	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Ménétreux-le-Pitois	21	103 km W	389	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Barby	08	277 km N	389	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chaux	21	64 km W	483	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Souligny	10	170 km NW	381	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

Commune website · Wikipedia (en) ·Wikipedia (fr) · INSEE dossier complet · OpenStreetMap · Web search · Map

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/25374-mercey-le-grand