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Dommartin-Lettrée

Marne · CA de Châlons-en-Champagne · INSEE 51212

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Dommartin-Lettrée (INSEE 51212) is in Marne (51), part of CA de Châlons-en-Champagne. Population 165 (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/51212-dommartin-lettree

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 14,807 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.48104.76
Housing mix0.9554.74

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 216 2023: 165 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 152 (2012) → 165 (2023): 8.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 169 (1990) → 165 (2023): -2.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 78, of which 2.6 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 5.0 km NW (Bussy-Lettrée)Bakery — 7.4 km SE (Coole)GP — 7.4 km E (Faux-Vésigneul)Food shop — 12.0 km N (Nuisement-sur-Coole)Pharmacy — 12.9 km SW (Mailly-le-Camp)
Primary school — 5.0 km NWBakery — 7.4 km SEGP — 7.4 km EFood shop — 12.0 km NPharmacy — 12.9 km SW 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 (Coole): 7.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Nuisement-sur-Coole): 12 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Faux-Vésigneul): 7.4 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Mailly-le-Camp): 12.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Bussy-Lettrée): 5 km to the north-west (straight line). [12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 70 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the SOMMESOUS weather station, 7.6 km away at 167 m; the village itself is at 146 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at VATRY-AERO, 9.9 km away at 179 m, over 24 summers. [13]

An average of 692 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at FAUX-VESIGNEUL, 7.5 km away at 132 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51212/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51212/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51212/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51212/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51167
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51409
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51244
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10216
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51099
  13. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Intville-la-Guétard45164 km W16417.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 68 %
Viel-Arcy0284 km NW16614.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Lesbœufs80176 km NW16612No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Brémoncourt54154 km E16613.2No daily shopsno figures
Athienville54161 km E16310.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Rembercourt-sur-Mad54120 km E16414.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Viel-Arcy0284 km NW16614.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Rembercourt-sur-Mad54120 km E16414.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Brémoncourt54154 km E16613.2No daily shopsno figures
Athienville54161 km E16310.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Intville-la-Guétard45164 km W16417.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 68 %
Lesbœufs80176 km NW16612No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 64 % · 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 Dommartin-Lettrée'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Rembercourt-sur-Mad54120 km E16414.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Brainville54117 km E16712.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Puzieux57152 km E16714.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Trochères21175 km SE16616.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Marie-en-Chaux70184 km SE16215.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lesme71239 km S17311.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %