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Ferrière-et-Lafolie

Haute-Marne · CC du Bassin de Joinville en Champagne · INSEE 52199

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

No daily shops 9.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ferrière-et-Lafolie (INSEE 52199) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CC du Bassin de Joinville en Champagne. Population 50 (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/52199-ferriere-et-lafolie

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 4,828 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 trend0.41104.09
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 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 66 2023: 50 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 50 (2012) → 50 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 55 (1990) → 50 (2023): -9.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 28, of which 10.7 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 6.2 km SE (Donjeux)Bakery — 6.5 km NE (Joinville)GP — 6.5 km NE (Joinville)Food shop — 6.6 km NE (Joinville)Pharmacy — 6.9 km NE (Joinville)
Primary school — 6.2 km SEBakery — 6.5 km NEGP — 6.5 km NEFood shop — 6.6 km NEPharmacy — 6.9 km NE 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 (Joinville): 6.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Joinville): 6.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Joinville): 6.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Joinville): 6.9 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Donjeux): 6.2 km to the south-east (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 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the BLECOURT weather station, 1.8 km away at 348 m; the village itself is at 312 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at BLECOURT, 1.8 km away at 348 m, over 20 summers. [10]

An average of 919 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at BLECOURT, 1.8 km away at 348 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52199/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52199/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52199/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52199/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52250
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52175
  10. 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
Arcey21126 km S5113No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Devèze65669 km SW508.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Léger-sous-Margerie1047 km W517.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Nénigan31654 km SW518.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 97 %
Ossenx64721 km SW5111.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Cumont82597 km SW509.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 46 % · winter 73 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Léger-sous-Margerie1047 km W517.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Arcey21126 km S5113No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cumont82597 km SW509.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 46 % · winter 73 %
Nénigan31654 km SW518.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 97 %
Devèze65669 km SW508.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Ossenx64721 km SW5111.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Ferrière-et-Lafolie'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
Saint-Léger-sous-Margerie1047 km W517.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Quincy-Basse02177 km NW539.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Chambroncourt5224 km E4812.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Géry5546 km N509.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Germay5220 km E497.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Vaux-en-Dieulet08121 km N537.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %