Mey

Moselle · Metz Métropole · INSEE 57467

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

Few services 28.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mey (INSEE 57467) is in Moselle (57), part of Metz Métropole. Population 309 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/57467-mey

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 17,909 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	25	0
Social	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	1	5	5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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”.

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

3 × Restaurant (BELLA PIZZA · II GUSTO). ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	3	BELLA PIZZA · II GUSTO	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 83 2023: 309 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 307 (2012) → 309 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 165 (1990) → 309 (2023): 87.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 137, of which 0 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.7 km SBakery — 0.8 km SFood shop — 1.4 km WPharmacy — 1.5 km WGP — 1.9 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 (Vantoux): 0.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Julien-lès-Metz): 1.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Metz): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Metz): 1.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Vantoux): 0.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.2

Days at or below 0 °C 59

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the METZ-FRESCATY weather station, 10.9 km away at 192 m; the village itself is at 218 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at METZ-FRESCATY, 10.9 km away at 192 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 721 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at METZ-FRESCATY, 10.9 km away at 192 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

No price figures: this département keeps the livre foncier rather than the cadastre, so its transactions are not published in DVF at all. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57467/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57467/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57467/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57467/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57693
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57616
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57463
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Zellenberg	68	134 km SE	321	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Guisy	62	334 km NW	275	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Bougy	14	492 km W	376	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances	50	559 km W	387	13.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Berche	25	189 km S	534	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Ponsonnas	38	473 km S	288	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 42 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Zellenberg	68	134 km SE	321	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Berche	25	189 km S	534	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Guisy	62	334 km NW	275	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Ponsonnas	38	473 km S	288	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 42 % · humidity 93 %
Bougy	14	492 km W	376	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances	50	559 km W	387	13.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Mey'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
Zellenberg	68	134 km SE	321	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Elvange	57	24 km E	419	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ail	54	18 km W	465	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bermont	90	179 km S	358	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Waltenheim	68	187 km SE	506	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Malmerspach	68	153 km SE	475	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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