Vaux

Moselle · Metz Métropole · INSEE 57701

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

Few services 26.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vaux (INSEE 57701) is in Moselle (57), part of Metz Métropole. Population 792 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/57701-vaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 15,715 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.51	10	5.1
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LA FINESTRA). ^[3]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE DES TILLEULS). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DES VIGNES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LC COIFFEUSE PRIVEE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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	1	LA FINESTRA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE DES TILLEULS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DES VIGNES	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	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	LC COIFFEUSE PRIVEE	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: 594 peak 2007: 873 2023: 792 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 862 (2012) → 792 (2023): -8.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 784 (1990) → 792 (2023): 1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 378, of which 1.6 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.0 km SEBakery — 1.9 km SGP — 1.9 km NPharmacy — 1.9 km S 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 (Ars-sur-Moselle): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ars-sur-Moselle): 1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Rozérieulles): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ars-sur-Moselle): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Vaux): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

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, 4.2 km away at 192 m; the village itself is at 210 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at METZ-FRESCATY, 4.2 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, 4.2 km away at 192 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 — 57701/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57701/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57701/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 57701/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57032
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57601
INSEE BPE 2025 — 57701
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
Blies-Guersviller	57	74 km E	651	27	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Norroy-le-Veneur	57	9.9 km N	993	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Frauenberg	57	76 km E	603	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Cramoisy	60	268 km W	803	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mélicocq	60	238 km W	789	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Lixing-lès-Rouhling	57	67 km E	799	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Norroy-le-Veneur	57	9.9 km N	993	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lixing-lès-Rouhling	57	67 km E	799	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Blies-Guersviller	57	74 km E	651	27	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Frauenberg	57	76 km E	603	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Mélicocq	60	238 km W	789	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Cramoisy	60	268 km W	803	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · 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 Vaux'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
Norroy-le-Veneur	57	9.9 km N	993	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Coin-lès-Cuvry	57	8.7 km SE	824	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Plesnois	57	9.0 km N	772	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Betting	57	54 km E	858	37.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Frœningen	68	179 km SE	881	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-de-Naud	77	218 km W	848	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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