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Sauvigny

Meuse · CC de Commercy - Void - Vaucouleurs · INSEE 55474

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

No daily shops 13.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sauvigny (INSEE 55474) is in Meuse (55), part of CC de Commercy - Void - Vaucouleurs. Population 229 (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/55474-sauvigny

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 16,761 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 & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.64106.39
Housing mix0.753.48

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). [3]

1 × Hairdresser. [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. [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]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 287 2023: 229 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 252 (2012) → 229 (2023): -9.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 201 (1990) → 229 (2023): 13.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 164, of which 15.2 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmBakery — 4.9 km N (Pagny-la-Blanche-Côte)Primary school — 5.2 km NW (Maxey-sur-Vaise)Food shop — 7.2 km E (Punerot)GP — 7.8 km NE (Allamps)Pharmacy — 10.7 km S (Coussey)
Bakery — 4.9 km NPrimary school — 5.2 km NWFood shop — 7.2 km EGP — 7.8 km NEPharmacy — 10.7 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 (Pagny-la-Blanche-Côte): 4.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Punerot): 7.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Allamps): 7.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Coussey): 10.7 km to the south (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Maxey-sur-Vaise): 5.2 km to the north-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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 82 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the MAXEY SA weather station, 5.4 km away at 250 m; the village itself is at 264 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at HOUDELAINCOURT, 17 km away at 390 m, over 14 summers. [13]

That station sits 126 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [13]

An average of 931 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at MAXEY SA, 5.4 km away at 250 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 — 55474/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55474/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55474/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55474/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55397
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88363
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 54010
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88118
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55328
  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
Marnes79466 km W2179.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Cérilly21115 km SW21410.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Tilhouse65733 km SW22512.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Villy-sur-Yères76349 km NW22415.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 35 %
Saint-Eloy29726 km W22018.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 18 % · humidity 93 %
Borey70111 km SE22313.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Borey70111 km SE22313.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Cérilly21115 km SW21410.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Villy-sur-Yères76349 km NW22415.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 35 %
Marnes79466 km W2179.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Eloy29726 km W22018.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 18 % · humidity 93 %
Tilhouse65733 km SW22512.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Sauvigny'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
Borey70111 km SE22313.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Montigny-sur-l'Ain39199 km S21718.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Jussarupt8885 km SE25610.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Les Loges-Margueron10127 km W21016.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Tourzel-Ronzières63384 km SW20014.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Vitry-lès-Nogent5263 km SW20518.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %