Archettes

Vosges · CA d'Epinal · INSEE 88012

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 26.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Archettes (INSEE 88012) is in Vosges (88), part of CA d'Epinal. Population 1,113 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/88012-archettes

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 18 % of the 13,675 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.88
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.57	10	5.72
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MARIE BALLAND, MÉDECIN · CHLOÉ MICHEL, MÉDECIN · TIPHAINE COUVAL-PATERNOTTE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ARCHETTES MAISON RURALE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	MARIE BALLAND, MÉDECIN · CHLOÉ MICHEL, MÉDECIN · TIPHAINE COUVAL-PATERNOTTE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ARCHETTES MAISON RURALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 949 2023: 1,113 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,102 (2012) → 1,113 (2023): 1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,038 (1990) → 1,113 (2023): 7.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 614, of which 1.5 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 0.7 km SPharmacy — 6.0 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 (Archettes): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arches): 0.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Archettes): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Hadol): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Archettes): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.5

Days at or below 0 °C 64.9

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE ROULIER_SAPC weather station, 8.3 km away at 449 m; the village itself is at 354 m. ^[11]

The village sits 95 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at EPINAL, 11.4 km away at 317 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,170 mm of rain a year, spread over 151 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHENIMENIL, 4.9 km away at 402 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 — 88012/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88012/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88012/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88012/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88012
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88011
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88225
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
Tartaras	42	319 km SW	958	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Plerneuf	22	697 km W	1,123	25	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Viennay	79	534 km W	1,062	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Pol	59	320 km NW	1,197	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Beine-Nauroy	51	211 km NW	1,044	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pouange	10	185 km W	1,010	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pouange	10	185 km W	1,010	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Beine-Nauroy	51	211 km NW	1,044	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Tartaras	42	319 km SW	958	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Villers-Pol	59	320 km NW	1,197	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Viennay	79	534 km W	1,062	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Plerneuf	22	697 km W	1,123	25	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 32 % · 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 Archettes'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
Beine-Nauroy	51	211 km NW	1,044	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Asnières-lès-Dijon	21	138 km SW	1,310	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Magny-sur-Tille	21	139 km SW	874	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Gorze	57	111 km N	1,120	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Bignoux	86	487 km W	1,087	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Grussenheim	68	71 km E	805	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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