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Marast

Haute-Saône · CC du Pays de Villersexel · INSEE 70332

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

No daily shops 11/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marast (INSEE 70332) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC du Pays de Villersexel. Population 44 (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/70332-marast

Vitality score

Vitality score 11/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 3,975 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 trend0.52105.23
Housing mix0.8354.13

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: 51 peak 2017: 55 2023: 44 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 43 (2012) → 44 (2023): 2.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 43 (1990) → 44 (2023): 2.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 23, of which 8.7 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.1 km S (Esprels)Bakery — 2.5 km S (Esprels)Primary school — 2.5 km S (Esprels)GP — 3.4 km E (Villersexel)Pharmacy — 3.8 km E (Villersexel)
Food shop — 2.1 km SBakery — 2.5 km SPrimary school — 2.5 km SGP — 3.4 km EPharmacy — 3.8 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 (Esprels): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Esprels): 2.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Villersexel): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Villersexel): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Esprels): 2.5 km to the south (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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 72 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the VILLERSEXEL SA weather station, 4 km away at 290 m; the village itself is at 271 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at VILLERSEXEL SA, 4 km away at 290 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 1,110 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ESPRELS, 2.6 km away at 260 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70332/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70332/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70332/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70332/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70219
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70561
  10. 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
Creveney7016 km NW447No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Verseilles-le-Haut5285 km W4616.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Gée-Rivière32668 km SW459.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 32 % · humidity 29 %
Pars-lès-Chavanges10176 km NW455.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Frénois8873 km N4814.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Attricourt7075 km W4715.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Creveney7016 km NW447No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Frénois8873 km N4814.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Attricourt7075 km W4715.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Verseilles-le-Haut5285 km W4616.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Pars-lès-Chavanges10176 km NW455.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Gée-Rivière32668 km SW459.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 32 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Marast'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
Creveney7016 km NW447No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Censy89176 km W5114No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Chatenay-Vaudin5278 km NW4612.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vannaire21141 km W4813.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Obreck57144 km N409.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Juvrecourt54133 km N357.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %