Richardménil

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC Moselle et Madon · INSEE 54459

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Richardménil (INSEE 54459) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC Moselle et Madon. Population 2,389 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/54459-richardmenil

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 8,508 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.29	10	2.86
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE VILLA). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AU BON ACCUEIL). ^[3,4]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTINE BOISDRON-RAYEL, MÉDECIN · VALERIE HELAS, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE HELAS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE BAZARD). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE RICHARDMÉNIL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SARL BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE VILLA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	AU BON ACCUEIL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JACQUES PREVERT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CHRISTINE BOISDRON-RAYEL, MÉDECIN · VALERIE HELAS, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE HELAS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE BAZARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE RICHARDMÉNIL	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 628 peak 1990: 3,040 2023: 2,389 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,422 (2012) → 2,389 (2023): -1.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 3,040 (1990) → 2,389 (2023): -21.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,104, of which 0.5 % second homes and 3.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 0.7 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 (Richardménil): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Richardménil): 0.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Richardménil): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Richardménil): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Richardménil): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.4

Days at or below 0 °C 60.8

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the NANCY-ESSEY weather station, 11.2 km away at 212 m; the village itself is at 259 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at NANCY-ESSEY, 11.2 km away at 212 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BENNEY, 9.3 km away at 350 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54459/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54459/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54459/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54459/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54459
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
Foucherans	39	176 km S	2,284	43.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Fleurieux-sur-l'Arbresle	69	327 km S	2,361	45.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Pouilley-les-Vignes	25	150 km S	2,195	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Viviers-du-Lac	73	328 km S	2,355	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Marœuil	62	316 km NW	2,422	51.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Puymoyen	16	561 km SW	2,403	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pouilley-les-Vignes	25	150 km S	2,195	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Foucherans	39	176 km S	2,284	43.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Marœuil	62	316 km NW	2,422	51.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Fleurieux-sur-l'Arbresle	69	327 km S	2,361	45.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Viviers-du-Lac	73	328 km S	2,355	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Puymoyen	16	561 km SW	2,403	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · 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 Richardménil'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
Pouilley-les-Vignes	25	150 km S	2,195	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Mareil-sur-Mauldre	78	317 km W	1,776	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Flins-sur-Seine	78	318 km W	2,447	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Avanne-Aveney	25	156 km S	2,256	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Sennecey-lès-Dijon	21	165 km SW	2,151	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Achenheim	67	107 km E	2,637	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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