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Bois-de-Champ

Vosges · CA de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges · INSEE 88064

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

No daily shops 11/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bois-de-Champ (INSEE 88064) is in Vosges (88), part of CA de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Population 105 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/88064-bois-de-champ

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 11,027 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 trend0.71107.07
Housing mix0.4552.24

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: 122 2023: 105 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 117 (2012) → 105 (2023): -10.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 87 (1990) → 105 (2023): 20.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 76, of which 27.6 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.6 km SW (Domfaing)Bakery — 4.9 km SW (Brouvelieures)Food shop — 5.2 km SW (Belmont-sur-Buttant)GP — 7.3 km SW (Bruyères)Pharmacy — 7.3 km SW (Bruyères)
Primary school — 3.6 km SWBakery — 4.9 km SWFood shop — 5.2 km SWGP — 7.3 km SWPharmacy — 7.3 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 (Brouvelieures): 4.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Belmont-sur-Buttant): 5.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Bruyères): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Bruyères): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Domfaing): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the STE MARGUERITE weather station, 12.9 km away at 358 m; the village itself is at 394 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at BAN-DE-SAPT, 18 km away at 590 m, over 20 summers. [12]

That station sits 196 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 1,125 mm of rain a year, spread over 155 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at BROUVELIEURES, 4.9 km away at 395 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88064/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88064/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88064/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88064/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88076
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88050
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88078
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88145
  12. 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
Lubilhac43430 km SW1054.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Pouvrai61464 km W1039.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 47 %
Carayac46556 km SW10414.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Cazalrenoux11676 km SW10514.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 18 % · humidity 64 %
Viviers89219 km W1066.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Repentigny14506 km W10214.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 32 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Viviers89219 km W1066.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Lubilhac43430 km SW1054.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Pouvrai61464 km W1039.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 47 %
Repentigny14506 km W10214.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 32 % · humidity 86 %
Carayac46556 km SW10414.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Cazalrenoux11676 km SW10514.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 18 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Bois-de-Champ'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
Tanconville5440 km N1057.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Auge23405 km SW925.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bussières63397 km SW1095.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Nivollet-Montgriffon01271 km SW12214.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Pont-du-Bois7059 km SW1156.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Plaisia39211 km SW969.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %