Saint-Vrain

Marne · CA du Grand Saint-Dizier Der et Vallées · INSEE 51521

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

Few services 20.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Vrain (INSEE 51521) is in Marne (51), part of CA du Grand Saint-Dizier Der et Vallées. Population 231 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 16,792 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.58	10	5.85
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 178 peak 2017: 233 2023: 231 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 203 (2012) → 231 (2023): 13.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 213 (1990) → 231 (2023): 8.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 101, of which 1 % second homes and 5.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 5.4 km WBakery — 5.6 km NWFood shop — 8.9 km NGP — 9.0 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 (Favresse): 5.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pargny-sur-Saulx): 8.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pargny-sur-Saulx): 9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Thiéblemont-Farémont): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Vrain): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.6

Days at or below 0 °C 51.3

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the TROIS-FONTAINES weather station, 10.4 km away at 204 m; the village itself is at 137 m. ^[12]

The village sits 67 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at FRIGNICOURT, 13.6 km away at 113 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 981 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at TROIS-FONTAINES, 10.4 km away at 204 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 — 51521/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51521/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51521/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51521/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51423
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51567
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51521
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
Lacollonge	90	197 km SE	234	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Hermelange	57	163 km E	227	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Lebucquière	62	206 km NW	232	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Méracq	64	701 km SW	234	20.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 43 %
Frévillers	62	251 km NW	239	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Rilly-Sainte-Syre	10	68 km SW	231	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rilly-Sainte-Syre	10	68 km SW	231	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Hermelange	57	163 km E	227	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Lacollonge	90	197 km SE	234	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Lebucquière	62	206 km NW	232	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Frévillers	62	251 km NW	239	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Méracq	64	701 km SW	234	20.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · 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 Saint-Vrain'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
Rilly-Sainte-Syre	10	68 km SW	231	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Kauffenheim	67	237 km E	222	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Buc	90	190 km SE	244	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Villy-en-Trodes	10	63 km SW	245	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ébaty	21	196 km S	256	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Châtenay	28	218 km W	241	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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