Murvaux

Meuse · CC du Pays de Stenay et du Val Dunois · INSEE 55365

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

No daily shops 9.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Murvaux (INSEE 55365) is in Meuse (55), part of CC du Pays de Stenay et du Val Dunois. Population 139 (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 9.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 13,473 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.36	10	3.63
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.13

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

Type	Count	Names	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 245 2023: 139 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 148 (2012) → 139 (2023): -6.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 161 (1990) → 139 (2023): -13.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 92, of which 8.7 % second homes and 22.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.2 km WBakery — 4.5 km WGP — 4.5 km WFood shop — 4.9 km WPharmacy — 11.7 km N 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 (Dun-sur-Meuse): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Doulcon): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dun-sur-Meuse): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Stenay): 11.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Dun-sur-Meuse): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.1

Days at or below 0 °C 61.5

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MOUZAY weather station, 8.1 km away at 166 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MOUZAY, 8.1 km away at 166 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

An average of 871 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DUN-SUR-MEUSE, 4.4 km away at 175 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55365/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55365/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55365/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55365/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55167
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55165
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55502
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
Montiron	32	728 km SW	137	12.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Peyrelongue-Abos	64	780 km SW	139	12.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 39 %
Chouday	36	363 km SW	140	10.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Parize-en-Viry	58	325 km SW	139	7.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Maurens-Scopont	81	696 km SW	135	8.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Cizos	65	773 km SW	136	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Parize-en-Viry	58	325 km SW	139	7.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Chouday	36	363 km SW	140	10.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Maurens-Scopont	81	696 km SW	135	8.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Montiron	32	728 km SW	137	12.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Cizos	65	773 km SW	136	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Peyrelongue-Abos	64	780 km SW	139	12.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 39 %

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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 Murvaux'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
Bucey-lès-Traves	70	204 km S	144	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Germigney	70	225 km S	145	9.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lignou	61	415 km W	136	9.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Badonvilliers-Gérauvilliers	55	97 km S	126	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Val-de-Vière	51	74 km SW	131	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Écuélin	59	131 km NW	145	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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