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Frenelle-la-Petite

Vosges · CC de Mirecourt Dompaire · INSEE 88186

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

No daily shops 10.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Frenelle-la-Petite (INSEE 88186) is in Vosges (88), part of CC de Mirecourt Dompaire. Population 49 (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/88186-frenelle-la-petite

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 4,658 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 trend0.36103.6
Housing mix155

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: 65 2023: 49 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 53 (2012) → 49 (2023): -7.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 57 (1990) → 49 (2023): -14 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 27, of which 0 % second homes and 18.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.7 km SW (Oëlleville)Primary school — 4.0 km SW (Oëlleville)Food shop — 6.6 km SE (Mirecourt)GP — 7.0 km SE (Mirecourt)Pharmacy — 7.2 km SE (Mirecourt)
Bakery — 3.7 km SWPrimary school — 4.0 km SWFood shop — 6.6 km SEGP — 7.0 km SEPharmacy — 7.2 km SE 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 (Oëlleville): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Mirecourt): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Mirecourt): 7 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Mirecourt): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Oëlleville): 4 km to the south-west (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 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the MIRECOURT weather station, 6.8 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 299 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at MIRECOURT-INRAE, 7 km away at 289 m, over 21 summers. [10]

An average of 900 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at MIRECOURT, 6.8 km away at 265 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 — 88186/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88186/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88186/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88186/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88334
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88304
  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
Neufvillage5784 km NE4913.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Castéra-Loubix64725 km SW5114No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 14 % · humidity 36 %
Wavrille55119 km NW4713.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Dommartin-lès-Vallois8822 km S5214.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Jeux-lès-Bard21163 km SW5214.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Palaiseul5281 km SW529No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Dommartin-lès-Vallois8822 km S5214.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Palaiseul5281 km SW529No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Neufvillage5784 km NE4913.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Wavrille55119 km NW4713.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Jeux-lès-Bard21163 km SW5214.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Castéra-Loubix64725 km SW5114No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 14 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Frenelle-la-Petite'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
Palaiseul5281 km SW529No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villeroy-sur-Méholle5547 km NW5217.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Urville8830 km SW549.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Rigny-Saint-Martin5539 km NW5012.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chauffecourt886.7 km E4117.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ormoy-lès-Sexfontaines5275 km W408.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %