Benney

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC du Pays du Saintois · INSEE 54062

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

Few services 30.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Benney (INSEE 54062) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC du Pays du Saintois. Population 637 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/54062-benney

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 16,806 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.87	10	8.7
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 407 peak 2017: 650 2023: 637 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 626 (2012) → 637 (2023): 1.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 465 (1990) → 637 (2023): 37 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 292, of which 0.7 % second homes and 3.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.4 km WGP — 4.4 km WFood shop — 5.0 km NEPharmacy — 5.8 km SW 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 (Ceintrey): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tonnoy): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Voinémont): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Haroué): 5.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Benney): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13

Days at or below 0 °C 67.7

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the NANCY-ESSEY weather station, 19.5 km away at 212 m; the village itself is at 299 m. ^[13]

The village sits 87 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at NANCY-ESSEY, 19.5 km away at 212 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 87 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at BENNEY, 0.7 km away at 350 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54062/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54062/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54062/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54062/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54109
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54527
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54591
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54252
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54062
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
Hindlingen	68	125 km SE	646	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Dalem	57	86 km N	695	29.7	Few services	no figures
Hunting	57	101 km N	673	28.2	Few services	no figures
Steinseltz	67	137 km NE	614	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Mont-Saint-Père	02	209 km W	684	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Rumaucourt	62	299 km NW	691	26.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dalem	57	86 km N	695	29.7	Few services	no figures
Hunting	57	101 km N	673	28.2	Few services	no figures
Hindlingen	68	125 km SE	646	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Steinseltz	67	137 km NE	614	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Mont-Saint-Père	02	209 km W	684	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Rumaucourt	62	299 km NW	691	26.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · 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 Benney'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
Hindlingen	68	125 km SE	646	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Mont-Saint-Père	02	209 km W	684	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Hagenbach	68	119 km SE	772	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Heimersdorf	68	129 km SE	645	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Menchhoffen	67	101 km NE	598	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Clastres	02	257 km NW	589	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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