Vavincourt

Meuse · CA de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse · INSEE 55541

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vavincourt (INSEE 55541) is in Meuse (55), part of CA de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse. Population 534 (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/55541-vavincourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 17,599 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.63	10	6.34
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VAVINCOURT AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'AFR ENTRE AIRE ET CHÉE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	VAVINCOURT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'AFR ENTRE AIRE ET CHÉE	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		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: 445 2023: 534 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 490 (2012) → 534 (2023): 9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 471 (1990) → 534 (2023): 13.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 252, of which 0.4 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.9 km EGP — 5.7 km SWPharmacy — 6.0 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): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Bar-le-Duc): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bar-le-Duc): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Vavincourt): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.7

Days at or below 0 °C 48.6

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BEHONNE_SAPC weather station, 3.4 km away at 301 m; the village itself is at 282 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CHAUMONT - SA, 12 km away at 240 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 889 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BEHONNE_SAPC, 3.4 km away at 301 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 — 55541/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55541/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55541/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55541/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55541
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55446
INSEE BPE 2025 — 55029
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
Treteau	03	301 km SW	520	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Peyraud	07	393 km S	516	30.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %
Remoncourt	88	91 km SE	567	28.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Mailly-Champagne	51	88 km NW	617	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Thors	17	533 km SW	477	29.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	208 km NW	620	29	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mailly-Champagne	51	88 km NW	617	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Remoncourt	88	91 km SE	567	28.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	208 km NW	620	29	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Treteau	03	301 km SW	520	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Peyraud	07	393 km S	516	30.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %
Thors	17	533 km SW	477	29.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Vavincourt'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
Mailly-Champagne	51	88 km NW	617	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Coulommes	77	167 km W	542	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Torcenay	52	114 km S	546	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-Marmery	51	82 km NW	579	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Trosly-Loire	02	164 km NW	541	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Liancourt-Saint-Pierre	60	245 km W	573	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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