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Lavallée

Meuse · CC de l'Aire à l'Argonne · INSEE 55282

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

No daily shops 11.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lavallée (INSEE 55282) is in Meuse (55), part of CC de l'Aire à l'Argonne. Population 83 (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/55282-lavallee

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 8,780 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 trend0.5105
Housing mix0.9554.77

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: 91 peak 2012: 97 2023: 83 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 97 (2012) → 83 (2023): -14.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 83 (1990) → 83 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 44, of which 2.3 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 4.9 km N (Villotte-sur-Aire)Primary school — 6.9 km SW (Loisey)GP — 9.5 km N (Pierrefitte-sur-Aire)Bakery — 9.9 km W (Vavincourt)Pharmacy — 11.8 km SW (Tronville-en-Barrois)
Food shop — 4.9 km NPrimary school — 6.9 km SWGP — 9.5 km NBakery — 9.9 km WPharmacy — 11.8 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 (Vavincourt): 9.9 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Villotte-sur-Aire): 4.9 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Pierrefitte-sur-Aire): 9.5 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Tronville-en-Barrois): 11.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Loisey): 6.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [12]

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 75 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the ERNEVILLE AUX BOIS_SAPC weather station, 8.4 km away at 313 m; the village itself is at 300 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at ERNEVILLE AUX BOIS_SAPC, 8.4 km away at 313 m, over 20 summers. [13]

An average of 1,029 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at ERNEVILLE AUX BOIS_SAPC, 8.4 km away at 313 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55282/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55282/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55282/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55282/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55541
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55570
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55404
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55519
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55298
  13. 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
Vaxainville54109 km E8314.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sars-le-Bois62267 km NW8315.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Latour-en-Woëvre5546 km NE8412.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vaudigny5475 km SE8417.3No daily shopsno figures
Bréban5174 km W8511.9No daily shopsno figures
Montdidier57108 km E8111.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Latour-en-Woëvre5546 km NE8412.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bréban5174 km W8511.9No daily shopsno figures
Vaudigny5475 km SE8417.3No daily shopsno figures
Montdidier57108 km E8111.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Vaxainville54109 km E8314.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sars-le-Bois62267 km NW8315.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Lavallée'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
Vaxainville54109 km E8314.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Latour-en-Woëvre5546 km NE8412.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Montdidier57108 km E8111.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Frécourt5296 km S868.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Longchamp-sous-Châtenois8868 km SE8212.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Biécourt8871 km SE8910.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %