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Cheppy

Meuse · CC Argonne-Meuse · INSEE 55113

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

No daily shops 11.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cheppy (INSEE 55113) is in Meuse (55), part of CC Argonne-Meuse. Population 156 (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/55113-cheppy

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 14,407 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 trend0.61106.06
Housing mix0.7653.82

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: 179 2023: 156 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 122 (2012) → 156 (2023): 27.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 141 (1990) → 156 (2023): 10.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 85, of which 11.8 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmGP — 1.1 km W (Varennes-en-Argonne)Pharmacy — 1.1 km W (Varennes-en-Argonne)Food shop — 1.2 km W (Varennes-en-Argonne)Primary school — 1.7 km W (Varennes-en-Argonne)Bakery — 10.9 km NW (Cornay)
GP — 1.1 km WPharmacy — 1.1 km WFood shop — 1.2 km WPrimary school — 1.7 km WBakery — 10.9 km NW 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 (Cornay): 10.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Varennes-en-Argonne): 1.2 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Varennes-en-Argonne): 1.1 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Varennes-en-Argonne): 1.1 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Varennes-en-Argonne): 1.7 km to the west (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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the SEPTSARGES weather station, 8.7 km away at 293 m; the village itself is at 175 m. [10]

The village sits 118 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]

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

Humidity measured at SEPTSARGES, 8.7 km away at 293 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 118 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, 2.1 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 — 55113/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55113/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55113/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55113/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08131
  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
Jancigny21207 km S15516.3No daily shopsno figures
Lignol-le-Château10114 km S1558.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Breugnon58233 km SW1539.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Préhy89190 km SW15712.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Médavy61368 km W1529.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Folies80182 km W15216.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lignol-le-Château10114 km S1558.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Folies80182 km W15216.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Préhy89190 km SW15712.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Jancigny21207 km S15516.3No daily shopsno figures
Breugnon58233 km SW1539.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Médavy61368 km W1529.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Cheppy'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
Lignol-le-Château10114 km S1558.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Médavy61368 km W1529.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Folies80182 km W15216.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Monthiers02129 km W15715.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mottereau28305 km W15211.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Meillard80231 km NW15414.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %