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Lavilleneuve-au-Roi

Haute-Marne · CC des Trois Forêts · INSEE 52278

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

No daily shops 6.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lavilleneuve-au-Roi (INSEE 52278) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CC des Trois Forêts. Population 69 (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/52278-lavilleneuve-au-roi

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 7,284 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 trend0.27102.67
Housing mix0.6353.15

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: 93 peak 1975: 98 2023: 69 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 89 (2012) → 69 (2023): -22.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 90 (1990) → 69 (2023): -23.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 54, of which 18.5 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 4.6 km NE (Juzennecourt)Primary school — 4.7 km NE (Juzennecourt)GP — 4.8 km SW (Maranville)Pharmacy — 7.7 km N (Colombey les Deux Églises)Food shop — 9.2 km NE (Sexfontaines)
Bakery — 4.6 km NEPrimary school — 4.7 km NEGP — 4.8 km SWPharmacy — 7.7 km NFood shop — 9.2 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 (Juzennecourt): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sexfontaines): 9.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Maranville): 4.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Colombey les Deux Églises): 7.7 km to the north (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Juzennecourt): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 75 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the JUZENNECOURT weather station, 4.6 km away at 303 m; the village itself is at 240 m. [12]

The village sits 63 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 JUZENNECOURT, 4.6 km away at 303 m, over 21 summers. [12]

That station sits 63 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 844 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at JUZENNECOURT, 4.6 km away at 303 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52278/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52278/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52278/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52278/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52253
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52472
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52308
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52140
  12. 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
Brainville-sur-Meuse5249 km E695.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Anthenay51140 km NW7013.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Omont08160 km N6813.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 100 %
Saint-Thomas02169 km NW718.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Molay7077 km SE6610.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 93 %
Giriviller54120 km E7115.6No daily shopsno figures
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Brainville-sur-Meuse5249 km E695.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Molay7077 km SE6610.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 93 %
Giriviller54120 km E7115.6No daily shopsno figures
Anthenay51140 km NW7013.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Omont08160 km N6813.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 100 %
Saint-Thomas02169 km NW718.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Lavilleneuve-au-Roi'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
Lambrey7087 km SE689.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mosson2135 km SW708.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montgon08150 km N726.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Arrans2169 km SW656.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Rivières-le-Bois5261 km SE647.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vomécourt-sur-Madon8894 km E679.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %