Thonnance-les-Moulins

Identity

Thonnance-les-Moulins (INSEE 52491) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CC du Bassin de Joinville en Champagne. Population 102 (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/52491-thonnance-les-moulins

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 10,792 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA FORGE DE SAINTE MARIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 116 (2012) → 102 (2023): -12.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 114 (1990) → 102 (2023): -10.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 81, of which 17.3 % second homes and 24.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Poissons): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Thonnance-lès-Joinville): 10.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Joinville): 11.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Joinville): 11.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Épizon): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CIRFONTAINES_SAPC weather station, 9.1 km away at 379 m; the village itself is at 270 m. ^[12]

The village sits 109 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 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CIRFONTAINES_SAPC, 9.1 km away at 379 m, over 22 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 109 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 1,114 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAILLY, 3.1 km away at 270 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 — 52491/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52491/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52491/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52491/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52398
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52490
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52250
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52187
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024