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Gratreuil

Marne · CC de l'Argonne Champenoise · INSEE 51280

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

No daily shops 5.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gratreuil (INSEE 51280) is in Marne (51), part of CC de l'Argonne Champenoise. Population 21 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/51280-gratreuil

Vitality score

Vitality score 5.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 1,003 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 trend0100
Housing mix155

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: 61 2023: 21 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 29 (2012) → 21 (2023): -27.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 45 (1990) → 21 (2023): -53.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 13, of which 0 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmBakery — 5.5 km SE (Cernay-en-Dormois)GP — 7.1 km N (Monthois)Pharmacy — 7.3 km N (Monthois)Primary school — 7.8 km N (Monthois)Food shop — 15.2 km N (Vouziers)
Bakery — 5.5 km SEGP — 7.1 km NPharmacy — 7.3 km NPrimary school — 7.8 km NFood shop — 15.2 km N 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-en-Dormois): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Vouziers): 15.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Monthois): 7.1 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Monthois): 7.3 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Monthois): 7.8 km to the north (straight line). [10]

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the SOMMEPY weather station, 10.4 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 172 m. [11]

An average of 787 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at SOMMEPY, 10.4 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51280/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51280/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51280/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51280/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51104
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08490
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08303
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Courcelles-sur-Voire1087 km S2210.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
Pintac65755 km SW2210.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 69 %
Sainte-Reine70210 km SE2310No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 92 %
Baulny5523 km E197.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 82 %
Morionvilliers52111 km SE248.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 95 %
Rapey88154 km SE2413.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 65 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Baulny5523 km E197.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 82 %
Courcelles-sur-Voire1087 km S2210.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
Morionvilliers52111 km SE248.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 95 %
Rapey88154 km SE2413.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 65 %
Sainte-Reine70210 km SE2310No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 92 %
Pintac65755 km SW2210.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 69 %

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