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Vathiménil

Meurthe-et-Moselle · CC du Territoire de Lunéville à Baccarat · INSEE 54550

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

No daily shops 13.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vathiménil (INSEE 54550) is in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), part of CC du Territoire de Lunéville à Baccarat. Population 317 (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/54550-vathimenil

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 17,936 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 trend0.7106.96
Housing mix0.9754.87

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: 257 peak 2017: 346 2023: 317 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 341 (2012) → 317 (2023): -7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 265 (1990) → 317 (2023): 19.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 153, of which 1.3 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 1.3 km NE (Chenevières)GP — 2.9 km NW (Saint-Clément)Pharmacy — 2.9 km NW (Saint-Clément)Bakery — 3.2 km NW (Saint-Clément)Food shop — 5.7 km SE (Azerailles)
Primary school — 1.3 km NEGP — 2.9 km NWPharmacy — 2.9 km NWBakery — 3.2 km NWFood shop — 5.7 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 (Saint-Clément): 3.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Azerailles): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Clément): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Clément): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Chenevières): 1.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ST MAURICE weather station, 16.3 km away at 305 m; the village itself is at 254 m. [11]

The village sits 51 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at ST MAURICE, 16.3 km away at 305 m, over 23 summers. [11]

That station sits 51 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 818 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at MARAINVILLER, 8.9 km away at 246 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54550/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54550/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54550/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 54550/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54472
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54038
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54125
  11. 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
Sondersdorf68126 km SE31912.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Fertans25167 km S31917.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Labruyère-Dorsa31693 km SW31717.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Gomont08211 km NW31712.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Échigey21182 km SW31617.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Dossenheim-Kochersberg6771 km E32217.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Dossenheim-Kochersberg6771 km E32217.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Sondersdorf68126 km SE31912.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Fertans25167 km S31917.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Échigey21182 km SW31617.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Gomont08211 km NW31712.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Labruyère-Dorsa31693 km SW31717.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Vathiménil'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
Dossenheim-Kochersberg6771 km E32217.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Hauviné08185 km NW31116.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Biermes08196 km NW31613.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-Buzon25154 km S31215No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Vatimont5754 km N30610.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vailly10185 km W32913.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %