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Warcq

Meuse · CC du Pays d'Étain · INSEE 55578

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

No daily shops 17.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Warcq (INSEE 55578) is in Meuse (55), part of CC du Pays d'Étain. Population 181 (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/55578-warcq

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 15,351 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 & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.9854.88

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
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]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 183 peak 2012: 210 2023: 181 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 210 (2012) → 181 (2023): -13.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 181 (2023): 61.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 85, of which 1.2 % second homes and 9.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.1 km N (Étain)Food shop — 2.3 km NW (Étain)Bakery — 2.4 km NW (Étain)GP — 2.4 km NW (Étain)Pharmacy — 2.6 km NW (Étain)
Primary school — 2.1 km NFood shop — 2.3 km NWBakery — 2.4 km NWGP — 2.4 km NWPharmacy — 2.6 km NW 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 (Étain): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Étain): 2.3 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Étain): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Étain): 2.6 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Étain): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). [8]

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the ROUVRES-EN-WOEVRE weather station, 4.4 km away at 226 m; the village itself is at 198 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at ROUVRES-EN-WOEVRE, 4.4 km away at 226 m, over 14 summers. [9]

An average of 678 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at ROUVRES-EN-WOEVRE, 4.4 km away at 226 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55578/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55578/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55578/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 55578/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55181
  9. 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
Rozerotte88110 km S1819.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bosselshausen67142 km E18012.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Manin62257 km NW18213.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
L'Isle-Arné32724 km SW18017.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Laucourt80216 km W18311.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Boncourt5413 km E17910.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Boncourt5413 km E17910.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Rozerotte88110 km S1819.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bosselshausen67142 km E18012.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Laucourt80216 km W18311.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Manin62257 km NW18213.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
L'Isle-Arné32724 km SW18017.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 43 % · 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 Warcq'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
Rozerotte88110 km S1819.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bosselshausen67142 km E18012.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Boncourt5413 km E17910.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-Saint-Lucien60256 km W17617.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Salonnes5776 km SE17613.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Jetterswiller67141 km SE18012.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %