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Aydoilles

Vosges · CA d'Epinal · INSEE 88026

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

Few services 20/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aydoilles (INSEE 88026) is in Vosges (88), part of CA d'Epinal. Population 1,018 (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/88026-aydoilles

Vitality score

Vitality score 20/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 6 % of the 14,205 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 food0.13253.28
Social0200
Education0.39103.93
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.51105.14
Housing mix0.9354.63

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 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE GREMILLET). [3,4]

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

2 × Hairdresser. [3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1BOULANGERIE GREMILLETINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIREINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Hairdresser2INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 492 peak 2012: 1,071 2023: 1,018 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,071 (2012) → 1,018 (2023): -4.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,004 (1990) → 1,018 (2023): 1.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 488, of which 3.7 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 4.1 km W (Deyvillers)Pharmacy — 4.8 km W (Deyvillers)GP — 4.9 km W (Deyvillers)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.1 km WPharmacy — 4.8 km WGP — 4.9 km W 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 (Aydoilles): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Deyvillers): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Deyvillers): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Deyvillers): 4.8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Aydoilles): 0.2 km to the north (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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LE ROULIER_SAPC weather station, 6 km away at 449 m; the village itself is at 385 m. [10]

The village sits 64 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at EPINAL, 9 km away at 317 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 68 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 1,044 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LE ROULIER_SAPC, 6 km away at 449 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88026/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88026/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88026/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88026/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88026
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88132
  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
Chambry77284 km W1,06425.3Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Recy51187 km NW1,09321.7Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Guessling-Hémering5791 km N92526.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux53546 km W1,17225.9Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Steinbrunn-le-Bas6884 km SE84829.4Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Buxeuil86463 km W88724.5Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Steinbrunn-le-Bas6884 km SE84829.4Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Guessling-Hémering5791 km N92526.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Recy51187 km NW1,09321.7Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Chambry77284 km W1,06425.3Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Buxeuil86463 km W88724.5Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux53546 km W1,17225.9Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · 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 Aydoilles'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
Guessling-Hémering5791 km N92526.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Hommarting5772 km NE84728.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gunsbach6848 km E85627Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Laquenexy5799 km N1,25526.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Prunay51207 km NW1,04233Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Tagolsheim6881 km SE99141.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %