Saffais

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC des Pays du Sel et du Vermois · INSEE 54468

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

Few services 22.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saffais (INSEE 54468) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC des Pays du Sel et du Vermois. Population 104 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 22.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 10,940 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.77	10	7.68
Housing mix	1	5	5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	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	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)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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 [3,4]
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: 60 peak 2012: 130 2023: 104 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 130 (2012) → 104 (2023): -20 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 82 (1990) → 104 (2023): 26.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 45, of which 0 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.4 km EFood shop — 3.9 km NWPrimary school — 4.3 km NGP — 4.5 km NPharmacy — 5.7 km E 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 (Barbonville): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Coyviller): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rosières-aux-Salines): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Damelevières): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Rosières-aux-Salines): 4.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.8

Days at or below 0 °C 72.4

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 72 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the NANCY-ESSEY weather station, 16.1 km away at 212 m; the village itself is at 345 m. ^[12]

The village sits 133 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at NANCY-ESSEY, 16.1 km away at 212 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 133 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 774 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST NICOLAS DE P, 7.9 km away at 255 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54468/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54468/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54468/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54468/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54045
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54141
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54462
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54152
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Lisse-en-Champagne	51	126 km W	104	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Missy-aux-Bois	02	240 km W	100	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Hérange	57	68 km E	104	17.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léonard	51	178 km NW	96	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-le-Sec	51	111 km W	109	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 72 %
Épaumesnil	80	357 km NW	104	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Hérange	57	68 km E	104	17.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-le-Sec	51	111 km W	109	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 72 %
Lisse-en-Champagne	51	126 km W	104	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Léonard	51	178 km NW	96	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Missy-aux-Bois	02	240 km W	100	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Épaumesnil	80	357 km NW	104	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 51 % · 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 Saffais'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
Hérange	57	68 km E	104	17.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Fécocourt	54	28 km SW	105	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bief	25	141 km S	108	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Maulan	55	79 km W	107	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Pareid	55	76 km NW	110	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Fromy	08	139 km NW	87	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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