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Holacourt

Moselle · CC du District Urbain de Faulquemont (DUF) · INSEE 57328

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

Few services 23/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 92 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Holacourt (INSEE 57328) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du District Urbain de Faulquemont (DUF). Population 87 (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/57328-holacourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 23/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 92 % of the 9,243 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 food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.95109.5
Housing mix0.9654.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

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

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

Not found in the commune: 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)1LA BOULANGERIE MOELLERINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 63 peak 2017: 88 2023: 87 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 73 (2012) → 87 (2023): 19.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 60 (1990) → 87 (2023): 45 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 45, of which 2.2 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 1.2 km SW (Lesse)Food shop — 4.7 km W (Baudrecourt)GP — 9.8 km NW (Rémilly)Pharmacy — 9.8 km NW (Rémilly)
In the commune Bakery Primary school — 1.2 km SWFood shop — 4.7 km WGP — 9.8 km NWPharmacy — 9.8 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 (Holacourt): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Baudrecourt): 4.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Rémilly): 9.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Rémilly): 9.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Lesse): 1.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the LESSE_SAPC weather station, 0.8 km away at 233 m; the village itself is at 250 m. [12]

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

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 14.8 km away at 258 m, over 20 summers. [12]

An average of 719 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at LESSE_SAPC, 0.8 km away at 233 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57328/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57328/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57328/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57328/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57328
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57054
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57572
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57395
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Tragny5710 km W8715.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Beuvezin5478 km SW9014.1No daily shopsno figures
Xocourt5712 km SW9923.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Samson25219 km S7418.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Brasseuse60281 km W11014.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Aboncourt-sur-Seille5722 km SW6720.2Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Tragny5710 km W8715.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Xocourt5712 km SW9923.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Aboncourt-sur-Seille5722 km SW6720.2Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Beuvezin5478 km SW9014.1No daily shopsno figures
Samson25219 km S7418.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Brasseuse60281 km W11014.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Holacourt'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
Tragny5710 km W8715.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Xocourt5712 km SW9923.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Mâchecourt02208 km W10817.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Rouhe25214 km S8717.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Beveuge70157 km S878.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Frémery576.7 km SW8717.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %