Valcourt

Haute-Marne · CA du Grand Saint-Dizier Der et Vallées · INSEE 52500

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

No daily shops 16.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Valcourt (INSEE 52500) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CA du Grand Saint-Dizier Der et Vallées. Population 596 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 16.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 17,098 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	5	0
Population trend	0.26	10	2.6
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 LES HIRONDELLES). ^[3]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[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, Library. ^[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 LES HIRONDELLES	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 516 peak 1990: 784 2023: 596 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 616 (2012) → 596 (2023): -3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 784 (1990) → 596 (2023): -24 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 310, of which 1 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.5 km NEBakery — 3.3 km NEGP — 3.5 km EPharmacy — 3.5 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 (Saint-Dizier): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Dizier): 2.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Dizier): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Dizier): 3.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Valcourt): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.4

Days at or below 0 °C 52.5

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-DIZIER weather station, 1.6 km away at 139 m; the village itself is at 135 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-DIZIER, 1.6 km away at 139 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 793 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-DIZIER, 1.6 km away at 139 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52500/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52500/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52500/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52500/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 52448
INSEE BPE 2025 — 52500
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
Faverois	90	200 km SE	593	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Menchhoffen	67	192 km E	598	21.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Clastres	02	175 km NW	589	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Mello	60	199 km W	600	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire-de-Court	18	266 km SW	594	15.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Kappelen	68	218 km SE	573	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Clastres	02	175 km NW	589	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Menchhoffen	67	192 km E	598	21.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Mello	60	199 km W	600	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Faverois	90	200 km SE	593	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Kappelen	68	218 km SE	573	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire-de-Court	18	266 km SW	594	15.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 100 % · 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 Valcourt'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
Clastres	02	175 km NW	589	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bolsenheim	67	200 km E	577	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Heidwiller	68	204 km SE	641	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chesny	57	109 km NE	553	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Kienheim	67	197 km E	537	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Altviller	57	143 km E	524	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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