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Preutin-Higny

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC Coeur du Pays Haut · INSEE 54436

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

No daily shops 14.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Preutin-Higny (INSEE 54436) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC Coeur du Pays Haut. Population 160 (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/54436-preutin-higny

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 14,595 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 trend0.78107.8
Housing mix0.8854.42

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 171 2023: 160 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 142 (2012) → 160 (2023): 12.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 125 (1990) → 160 (2023): 28 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 69, of which 5.8 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 2.6 km S (Landres)Primary school — 2.9 km S (Landres)Food shop — 3.0 km S (Landres)GP — 3.8 km S (Piennes)Pharmacy — 3.8 km S (Piennes)
Bakery — 2.6 km SPrimary school — 2.9 km SFood shop — 3.0 km SGP — 3.8 km SPharmacy — 3.8 km S 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 (Landres): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Landres): 3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Piennes): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Piennes): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Landres): 2.9 km to the south (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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ERROUVILLE_SAPC weather station, 11.9 km away at 373 m; the village itself is at 300 m. [10]

The village sits 73 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. [10]

An average of 975 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ERROUVILLE_SAPC, 11.9 km away at 373 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54436/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54436/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54436/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54436/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54295
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54425
  10. 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
La Villeneuve-Bellenoye-et-la-Maize70185 km S16010.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 78 %
Ferrières-le-Lac25245 km S16016.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 31 %
Berrogain-Laruns64849 km SW16012.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 80 %
Cys-la-Commune02161 km W16115.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 99 %
Bouchon80281 km W15813.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 70 %
Chaux-lès-Port70182 km S15814.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 78 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Cys-la-Commune02161 km W16115.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 99 %
Chaux-lès-Port70182 km S15814.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 78 %
La Villeneuve-Bellenoye-et-la-Maize70185 km S16010.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 78 %
Ferrières-le-Lac25245 km S16016.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 31 %
Bouchon80281 km W15813.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 70 %
Berrogain-Laruns64849 km SW16012.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 80 %

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