Sancy

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC Coeur du Pays Haut · INSEE 54491

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sancy (INSEE 54491) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC Coeur du Pays Haut. Population 365 (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 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 18,070 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.62	10	6.16
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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 [3,4]
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: 390 2023: 365 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 356 (2012) → 365 (2023): 2.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 327 (1990) → 365 (2023): 11.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 160, of which 0.6 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.5 km SPharmacy — 2.5 km SGP — 2.6 km SFood shop — 2.7 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 (Trieux): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Trieux): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Trieux): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Trieux): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sancy): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.6

Days at or below 0 °C 53.8

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 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ERROUVILLE_SAPC weather station, 8.2 km away at 373 m; the village itself is at 308 m. ^[10]

The village sits 65 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, 8.2 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

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54491/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54491/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54491/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54491/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54533
INSEE BPE 2025 — 54491
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
Houdelmont	54	91 km S	363	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 97 %
Haut-Lieu	59	167 km NW	361	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 96 %
Zaessingue	68	219 km SE	375	25	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 69 %
Saint-Gorgon	88	126 km SE	359	21.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 70 %
Grévillers	62	239 km W	353	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 82 %
Flastroff	57	44 km E	373	19.7	No daily shops	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Flastroff	57	44 km E	373	19.7	No daily shops	no figures
Houdelmont	54	91 km S	363	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Gorgon	88	126 km SE	359	21.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 70 %
Haut-Lieu	59	167 km NW	361	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 96 %
Zaessingue	68	219 km SE	375	25	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 69 %
Grévillers	62	239 km W	353	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 82 %

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