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Chalvraines

Haute-Marne · CC Meuse Rognon · INSEE 52095

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

No daily shops 11.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chalvraines (INSEE 52095) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CC Meuse Rognon. Population 191 (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/52095-chalvraines

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 15,683 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 & culture0.6353.16
Population trend0.24102.4
Housing mix0.7953.93

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 1 of 1
Culture 1 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]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHALVRAINES AP). [3]

1 × Library (POINT-LECTURE). [3]

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. [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 postale1CHALVRAINES APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1POINT-LECTUREINSEE BPE 1 [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: 314 2023: 191 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 200 (2012) → 191 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 258 (1990) → 191 (2023): -26 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 140, of which 10.7 % second homes and 15 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 5.1 km N (Prez-sous-Lafauche)Food shop — 5.3 km N (Prez-sous-Lafauche)GP — 5.8 km NW (Saint-Blin)Pharmacy — 5.8 km NW (Saint-Blin)Bakery — 8.7 km SE (Saint-Thiébault)
Primary school — 5.1 km NFood shop — 5.3 km NGP — 5.8 km NWPharmacy — 5.8 km NWBakery — 8.7 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 (Saint-Thiébault): 8.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Prez-sous-Lafauche): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Blin): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Blin): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Prez-sous-Lafauche): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). [9]

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 94 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the BOURDONS_SAPC weather station, 12.9 km away at 304 m; the village itself is at 378 m. [11]

The village sits 74 m above 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at BOURDONS_SAPC, 12.9 km away at 304 m, over 21 summers. [11]

That station sits 74 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,097 mm of rain a year, spread over 146 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at OZIERES, 7.4 km away at 411 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52095/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52095/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52095/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52095/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52455
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52407
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52444
  11. 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
Saudrupt5559 km NW19014.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Vandeléville5444 km NE20915.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Arné65682 km SW18113.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Chantraines5217 km W19915.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Cendrey25109 km SE20016.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 96 %
Vignory5228 km W2159.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chantraines5217 km W19915.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vignory5228 km W2159.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Vandeléville5444 km NE20915.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Saudrupt5559 km NW19014.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Cendrey25109 km SE20016.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 96 %
Arné65682 km SW18113.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Chalvraines'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
Chantraines5217 km W19915.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Maisonnisses23363 km SW17610.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Montigny-sur-l'Ain39172 km S21718.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Cirey-lès-Mareilles5215 km W15517.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gemaingoutte88119 km E15014.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Villaroux73313 km S19228Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %