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Behonne

Meuse · CA de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse · INSEE 55041

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

No daily shops 8.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 0 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Behonne (INSEE 55041) is in Meuse (55), part of CA de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse. Population 595 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). [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/55041-behonne

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 0 % of the 17,131 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 trend0.2102.02
Housing mix0.9954.97

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: 338 peak 1990: 848 2023: 595 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 652 (2012) → 595 (2023): -8.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 848 (1990) → 595 (2023): -29.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 319, of which 0.3 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 1.6 km SW (Bar-le-Duc)Food shop — 1.9 km SW (Bar-le-Duc)GP — 1.9 km SW (Bar-le-Duc)Pharmacy — 2.3 km S (Bar-le-Duc)Bakery — 2.4 km SW (Bar-le-Duc)
Primary school — 1.6 km SWFood shop — 1.9 km SWGP — 1.9 km SWPharmacy — 2.3 km SBakery — 2.4 km SW 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 (Bar-le-Duc): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bar-le-Duc): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Bar-le-Duc): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Bar-le-Duc): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Bar-le-Duc): 1.6 km to the south-west (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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the BEHONNE_SAPC weather station, 0.5 km away at 301 m; the village itself is at 287 m. [9]

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

Humidity measured at VASSINCOURT, 11 km away at 187 m, over 19 summers. [9]

That station sits 100 m below 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 889 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at BEHONNE_SAPC, 0.5 km away at 301 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 — 55041/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55041/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55041/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55041/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55029
  9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Racrange57110 km E62112.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Baltzenheim68192 km SE58114.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais53466 km W56713.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Pusy-et-Épenoux70144 km SE54012.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Sormonne08122 km N52911.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Ausson31727 km SW59612.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Racrange57110 km E62112.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Sormonne08122 km N52911.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Pusy-et-Épenoux70144 km SE54012.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Baltzenheim68192 km SE58114.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais53466 km W56713.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Ausson31727 km SW59612.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · 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 Behonne'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
Pouillon51107 km NW52913.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Minversheim67179 km E72117.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chalandry-Elaire08106 km N71917.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Heutrégiville5189 km NW50817.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Puisieulx5190 km NW46614.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Selles5187 km NW46417.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %