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Rouves

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC de Seille et Grand Couronné · INSEE 54464

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

No daily shops 15.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rouves (INSEE 54464) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC de Seille et Grand Couronné. Population 100 (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/54464-rouves

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 10,643 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 trend0.78107.82
Housing mix155

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 70 peak 2012: 107 2023: 100 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 107 (2012) → 100 (2023): -6.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 78 (1990) → 100 (2023): 28.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 39, of which 0 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 1.8 km SE (Nomeny)Bakery — 1.9 km SE (Nomeny)GP — 1.9 km SE (Nomeny)Pharmacy — 1.9 km SE (Nomeny)Food shop — 2.1 km SE (Nomeny)
Primary school — 1.8 km SEBakery — 1.9 km SEGP — 1.9 km SEPharmacy — 1.9 km SEFood shop — 2.1 km SE 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 (Nomeny): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Nomeny): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Nomeny): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Nomeny): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Nomeny): 1.8 km to the south-east (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 79 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the NOMENY weather station, 2.9 km away at 208 m; the village itself is at 186 m. [9]

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

Humidity measured at CHAMPENOUX-ARBO-INRAE, 19.2 km away at 255 m, over 17 summers. [9]

That station sits 69 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [9]

An average of 704 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at NOMENY, 2.9 km away at 208 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54464/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54464/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54464/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54464/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54400
  9. 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
Ploisy02217 km W10013.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Corbeil51135 km W10010.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Mousson549.2 km W1018.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 91 %
Leury02217 km W1018.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
L'Écouvotte25173 km S10117.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 84 %
Villoncourt8874 km S10113.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mousson549.2 km W1018.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 91 %
Villoncourt8874 km S10113.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Corbeil51135 km W10010.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
L'Écouvotte25173 km S10117.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 84 %
Leury02217 km W1018.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Ploisy02217 km W10013.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Rouves'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villoncourt8874 km S10113.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Bouconville-sur-Madt5536 km W9913.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Laneuveville-lès-Lorquin5764 km SE10417.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Marbéville52111 km SW10012.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vallier8869 km S10016.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Thiraucourt8868 km S10112.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %