Pierrefitte-sur-Aire

Meuse · CC de l'Aire à l'Argonne · INSEE 55404

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

Few services 36.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pierrefitte-sur-Aire (INSEE 55404) is in Meuse (55), part of CC de l'Aire à l'Argonne. Population 304 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 36.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 17,890 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.81	10	8.07
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.89	10	8.94
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DU BONH'AIRE). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTIAN DEFECHE, MÉDECIN · BERTRAND GRUEL, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE LEROUX, MÉDECIN · FLORENCE GUENOT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (PIERREFITTE SUR AIRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (ASSOCIATION AU FIL DE L'AIRE BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (STYL'AGNES). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DU BONH'AIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	CHRISTIAN DEFECHE, MÉDECIN · BERTRAND GRUEL, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE LEROUX, MÉDECIN · FLORENCE GUENOT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	PIERREFITTE SUR AIRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	ASSOCIATION AU FIL DE L'AIRE BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	STYL'AGNES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 238 peak 2017: 316 2023: 304 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 305 (2012) → 304 (2023): -0.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 218 (1990) → 304 (2023): 39.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 146, of which 8.2 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Food shop — 4.6 km SBakery — 12.2 km SWPharmacy — 15.5 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 (Vavincourt): 12.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villotte-sur-Aire): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pierrefitte-sur-Aire): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Mihiel): 15.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Pierrefitte-sur-Aire): 0.2 km to the east (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 0.7

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 km away at 294 m; the village itself is at 252 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CHAUMONT - SA, 6.3 km away at 240 m, over 11 summers. ^[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 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 — 55404/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55404/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55404/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55404/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55541
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
Magnières	54	104 km SE	290	27.7	Few services	no figures
Saint-Blin	52	70 km S	337	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Rigney	25	179 km S	367	25.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 47 %
Vanault-les-Dames	51	41 km W	376	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Esnouveaux	52	86 km S	301	22	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Maranville	52	92 km S	405	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vanault-les-Dames	51	41 km W	376	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Blin	52	70 km S	337	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Esnouveaux	52	86 km S	301	22	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Maranville	52	92 km S	405	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Magnières	54	104 km SE	290	27.7	Few services	no figures
Rigney	25	179 km S	367	25.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 47 %

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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 Pierrefitte-sur-Aire'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
Saint-Blin	52	70 km S	337	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vanault-les-Dames	51	41 km W	376	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Vaubecourt	55	16 km W	312	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vaux-sur-Blaise	52	54 km SW	336	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Dombasle-en-Argonne	55	29 km N	365	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Villaines-en-Duesmois	21	148 km SW	252	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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