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Saint-Médard

Moselle · CC du Saulnois · INSEE 57621

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

No daily shops 10.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Médard (INSEE 57621) is in Moselle (57), part of CC du Saulnois. Population 107 (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/57621-saint-medard

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 11,176 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 trend0.48104.82
Housing mix0.8154.07

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: 121 2023: 107 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 103 (2012) → 107 (2023): 3.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 109 (1990) → 107 (2023): -1.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 54, of which 9.3 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.3 km SE (Mulcey)Food shop — 2.5 km SW (Haraucourt-sur-Seille)Bakery — 6.0 km E (Dieuze)GP — 6.1 km E (Dieuze)Pharmacy — 6.1 km E (Dieuze)
Primary school — 2.3 km SEFood shop — 2.5 km SWBakery — 6.0 km EGP — 6.1 km EPharmacy — 6.1 km E 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 (Dieuze): 6 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Haraucourt-sur-Seille): 2.5 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Dieuze): 6.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Dieuze): 6.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Mulcey): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the RODALBE weather station, 11.7 km away at 258 m; the village itself is at 237 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at RODALBE, 11.7 km away at 258 m, over 20 summers. [11]

An average of 822 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at DIEUZE, 6.6 km away at 216 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57621/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57621/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57621/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57621/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57177
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57295
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 57493
  11. 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
Cognières70149 km S10711.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gaudéric11728 km SW10816.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 38 % · humidity 29 %
Vervezelle8866 km S1088.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Chelle-Spou65801 km SW10612No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Fleury62363 km NW10911.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Xaronval8859 km SW10716.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Xaronval8859 km SW10716.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Vervezelle8866 km S1088.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Cognières70149 km S10711.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Fleury62363 km NW10911.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Gaudéric11728 km SW10816.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 38 % · humidity 29 %
Chelle-Spou65801 km SW10612No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Saint-Médard'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
Cognières70149 km S10711.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Missy-lès-Pierrepont02226 km NW10713.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bazeilles-sur-Othain55116 km NW10716.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Estrennes8875 km SW10713.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-aux-Forges5437 km SE10315.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Channes10201 km SW1087.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %