Ville-sur-Tourbe

Marne · CC de l'Argonne Champenoise · INSEE 51640

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

Few services 20.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ville-sur-Tourbe (INSEE 51640) is in Marne (51), part of CC de l'Argonne Champenoise. Population 216 (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/51640-ville-sur-tourbe

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 16,448 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.57	10	5.69
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.2

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 1 of 2

Sport 1 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 PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE VILLE-SUR-TOURBE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (TERRAIN DE SPORTS). ^[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. ^[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 PRIMAIRE 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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE VILLE-SUR-TOURBE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	TERRAIN DE SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 238 peak 2012: 241 2023: 216 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 241 (2012) → 216 (2023): -10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 202 (1990) → 216 (2023): 6.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 113, of which 8 % second homes and 2.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.5 km NGP — 7.4 km EFood shop — 13.1 km SEPharmacy — 13.1 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-en-Dormois): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Menehould): 13.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vienne-le-Château): 7.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sainte-Menehould): 13.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ville-sur-Tourbe): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14

Days at or below 0 °C 60.9

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ARGERS weather station, 14.4 km away at 152 m; the village itself is at 127 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ARGERS, 14.4 km away at 152 m, over 22 summers. ^[12]

An average of 833 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BERZIEUX, 2.6 km away at 140 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 — 51640/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51640/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51640/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51640/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51104
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51507
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51621
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51640
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
Boudeville	76	289 km W	217	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Luisetaines	77	142 km SW	229	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Mesterrieux	33	623 km SW	221	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Mézoargues	13	593 km S	229	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 64 %
Cussangy	10	140 km S	200	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 74 %
Jussy-Champagne	18	292 km SW	205	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cussangy	10	140 km S	200	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 74 %
Luisetaines	77	142 km SW	229	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Boudeville	76	289 km W	217	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Jussy-Champagne	18	292 km SW	205	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Mézoargues	13	593 km S	229	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 64 %
Mesterrieux	33	623 km SW	221	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Ville-sur-Tourbe'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
Luisetaines	77	142 km SW	229	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Chéry	18	307 km SW	233	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Drom	01	333 km S	215	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Chauffourt	52	143 km S	180	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Maxey-sur-Meuse	88	106 km SE	213	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pailly	52	162 km S	270	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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