Morfontaine

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CA Grand Longwy Agglomération · INSEE 54385

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

Few services 24.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Morfontaine (INSEE 54385) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CA Grand Longwy Agglomération. Population 1,073 (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/54385-morfontaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 13,894 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.8	10	7.97
Housing mix	1	5	4.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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 × Restaurant (KEBAB EIFFEL). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1	KEBAB EIFFEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE GEORGES SAND	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: 967 peak 2007: 1,122 2023: 1,073 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,111 (2012) → 1,073 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 827 (1990) → 1,073 (2023): 29.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 456, of which 0.2 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.8 km EGP — 3.0 km NPharmacy — 3.2 km NBakery — 3.4 km NFood shop — 5.1 km N 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 (Villers-la-Montagne): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Haucourt-Moulaine): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villers-la-Montagne): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Villers-la-Montagne): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Morfontaine): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.6

Days at or below 0 °C 60.4

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ERROUVILLE_SAPC weather station, 7.7 km away at 373 m; the village itself is at 368 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VILLETTE, 17.3 km away at 345 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 978 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MEXY, 6.3 km away at 372 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54385/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54385/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54385/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54385/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54575
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54385
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
Hargarten-aux-Mines	57	63 km SE	1,073	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Bruebach	68	225 km SE	1,042	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Aspach	68	226 km SE	1,138	27.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Beaufort	59	158 km NW	995	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Raedersheim	68	204 km SE	1,173	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bining	57	114 km SE	1,162	20.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Hargarten-aux-Mines	57	63 km SE	1,073	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Bining	57	114 km SE	1,162	20.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Beaufort	59	158 km NW	995	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Raedersheim	68	204 km SE	1,173	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bruebach	68	225 km SE	1,042	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Aspach	68	226 km SE	1,138	27.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · 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 Morfontaine'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
Beaufort	59	158 km NW	995	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lévignen	60	212 km W	1,014	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bézu-Saint-Germain	02	178 km W	991	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Tenteling	57	89 km SE	1,043	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Crouy-en-Thelle	60	254 km W	1,092	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Prunay	51	121 km W	1,042	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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