Robert-Espagne

Meuse · CA de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse · INSEE 55435

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 37.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Robert-Espagne (INSEE 55435) is in Meuse (55), part of CA de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse. Population 756 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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 37.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 15,984 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.43	10	4.34
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DUPUIS). ^[4,3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (AU MARCHE DE LA VALLEE DE LA SAULX). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE PIERRE ROBIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA SAULX). ^[4,3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ROBERT ESPAGNE AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE COMMUNALE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,3]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT DE LA GARE). ^[4,3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE DUPUIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AU MARCHE DE LA VALLEE DE LA SAULX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE PIERRE ROBIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LA SAULX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	ROBERT ESPAGNE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE COMMUNALE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	1	HOTEL RESTAURANT DE LA GARE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 890 2023: 756 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 828 (2012) → 756 (2023): -8.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 809 (1990) → 756 (2023): -6.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 387, of which 2.8 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 3.5 km SBakery — 3.6 km S 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 (L'Isle-en-Rigault): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Robert-Espagne): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (L'Isle-en-Rigault): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Robert-Espagne): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Robert-Espagne): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.5

Days at or below 0 °C 47.9

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VASSINCOURT weather station, 6.9 km away at 187 m; the village itself is at 157 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VASSINCOURT, 6.9 km away at 187 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,033 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SAUDRUPT, 5.9 km away at 200 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55435/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55435/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55435/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55435/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55296
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55435
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
Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut	59	199 km NW	716	34.1	Few services	no figures
Seychalles	63	351 km S	785	51.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Bulles	60	212 km NW	830	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Puybrun	46	492 km SW	984	57.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Villesèquelande	11	650 km S	882	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 62 % · humidity 43 %
Cruviers-Lascours	30	531 km S	707	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut	59	199 km NW	716	34.1	Few services	no figures
Bulles	60	212 km NW	830	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Seychalles	63	351 km S	785	51.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Puybrun	46	492 km SW	984	57.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Cruviers-Lascours	30	531 km S	707	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Villesèquelande	11	650 km S	882	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 62 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Robert-Espagne'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-Christophe-sur-le-Nais	37	361 km W	1,067	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Doulaincourt-Saucourt	52	49 km S	731	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Montaulin	10	83 km SW	825	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Salles-Arbuissonnas-en-Beaujolais	69	302 km S	815	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vieilley	25	175 km SE	664	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Maillé	86	435 km SW	637	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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