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Boureuilles

Meuse · CC Argonne-Meuse · INSEE 55065

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

No daily shops 18/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Boureuilles (INSEE 55065) is in Meuse (55), part of CC Argonne-Meuse. Population 118 (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/55065-boureuilles

Vitality score

Vitality score 18/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 12,024 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.49104.92
Housing mix0.8154.03

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
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]
Restaurant1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 134 2023: 118 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 123 (2012) → 118 (2023): -4.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 119 (1990) → 118 (2023): -0.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 72, of which 9.7 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 3.5 km N (Varennes-en-Argonne)Primary school — 3.5 km N (Varennes-en-Argonne)GP — 3.6 km N (Varennes-en-Argonne)Pharmacy — 3.6 km N (Varennes-en-Argonne)Bakery — 10.0 km S (Les Islettes)
Food shop — 3.5 km NPrimary school — 3.5 km NGP — 3.6 km NPharmacy — 3.6 km NBakery — 10.0 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 (Les Islettes): 10 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Varennes-en-Argonne): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Varennes-en-Argonne): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Varennes-en-Argonne): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Varennes-en-Argonne): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

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 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the AUBREVILLE_SAPC weather station, 7.9 km away at 202 m; the village itself is at 182 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at SEPTSARGES, 12 km away at 293 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 111 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 962 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at VARENNES-EN-ARG, 3.1 km away at 180 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55065/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55065/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55065/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55065/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55253
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55527
  10. 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
Chaumont-sur-Aire5534 km SE11915.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Tollaincourt88133 km SE11614.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Breuilaufa87458 km SW11922Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Fouchécourt70172 km SE12018.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Cutry02136 km W12625.9Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 80 %
Crouzet-Migette25259 km S11824.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chaumont-sur-Aire5534 km SE11915.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Tollaincourt88133 km SE11614.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Cutry02136 km W12625.9Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 80 %
Fouchécourt70172 km SE12018.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Crouzet-Migette25259 km S11824.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Breuilaufa87458 km SW11922Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Boureuilles'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
Esclagne09734 km S11915.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Villars-Fontaine21228 km S11620.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Trugny21246 km S12415.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chassey-lès-Scey70186 km S12121.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Greux8895 km SE13017.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Pareid5550 km E11020.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %