Courouvre

Meuse · CC de l'Aire à l'Argonne · INSEE 55129

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

No daily shops 18/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 92 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Courouvre (INSEE 55129) is in Meuse (55), part of CC de l'Aire à l'Argonne. Population 44 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 18/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 92 % of the 3,975 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.27	10	2.72
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.89

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]

2 × 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

Type	Count	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	2	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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: 65 2023: 44 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 34 (2012) → 44 (2023): 29.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 57 (1990) → 44 (2023): -22.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 18, of which 11.1 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.7 km SGP — 4.8 km SWFood shop — 9.0 km SBakery — 11.3 km NWPharmacy — 14.4 km E 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 (Souilly): 11.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villotte-sur-Aire): 9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pierrefitte-sur-Aire): 4.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Mihiel): 14.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Pierrefitte-sur-Aire): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.7

Days at or below 0 °C 52.4

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CHAUMONT_SAPC weather station, 6.8 km away at 294 m; the village itself is at 322 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CHAUMONT - SA, 7.6 km away at 240 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 82 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 887 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CHAUMONT_SAPC, 6.8 km away at 294 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55129/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55129/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55129/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55129/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55498
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55570
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55404
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55463
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
Baudrémont	55	11 km S	44	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Cumiès	11	683 km SW	44	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Escots	65	763 km SW	39	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
L'Échelle-Saint-Aurin	80	209 km NW	43	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Rombly	62	282 km NW	53	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Saudron	52	50 km S	40	17.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Baudrémont	55	11 km S	44	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Saudron	52	50 km S	40	17.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
L'Échelle-Saint-Aurin	80	209 km NW	43	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Rombly	62	282 km NW	53	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Cumiès	11	683 km SW	44	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Escots	65	763 km SW	39	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Courouvre'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bouhey	21	200 km S	53	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Massiges	51	52 km NW	43	6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Dommartin-sous-Hans	51	47 km NW	45	8.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Thaix	58	263 km SW	42	5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Felcourt	51	46 km W	44	7.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Lumier-la-Populeuse	51	48 km SW	41	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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