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Gendreville

Vosges · CC Terre d'Eau · INSEE 88195

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

No daily shops 7.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gendreville (INSEE 88195) is in Vosges (88), part of CC Terre d'Eau. Population 103 (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/88195-gendreville

Vitality score

Vitality score 7.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 10,844 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 trend0.31103.11
Housing mix0.6953.47

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: 156 2023: 103 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 115 (2012) → 103 (2023): -10.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 127 (1990) → 103 (2023): -18.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 72, of which 15.3 % second homes and 20.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 4.1 km NW (Pompierre)Primary school — 6.3 km N (Landaville)GP — 6.9 km S (Vrécourt)Food shop — 8.0 km W (Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon)Pharmacy — 9.2 km E (Bulgnéville)
Bakery — 4.1 km NWPrimary school — 6.3 km NGP — 6.9 km SFood shop — 8.0 km WPharmacy — 9.2 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 (Pompierre): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon): 8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Vrécourt): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Bulgnéville): 9.2 km to the east (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Landaville): 6.3 km to the north (straight line). [12]

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the ST OUEN-LES-PAREY_SAPC weather station, 6.7 km away at 329 m; the village itself is at 319 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at ROLLAINVILLE, 13.7 km away at 372 m, over 18 summers. [13]

That station sits 53 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [13]

An average of 822 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at ST OUEN-LES-PAREY_SAPC, 6.7 km away at 329 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88195/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88195/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88195/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88195/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88352
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52064
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88524
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88079
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88259
  13. 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
Argelès-Bagnères65715 km SW1039.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 64 %
Cubry2598 km SE1049.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Sajas31651 km SW10415.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Theuley7069 km S10512.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 100 %
Gaudonville32613 km SW1018No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 16 % · humidity 36 %
Repaix5492 km NE10511.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Theuley7069 km S10512.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 100 %
Repaix5492 km NE10511.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Cubry2598 km SE1049.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Gaudonville32613 km SW1018No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 16 % · humidity 36 %
Sajas31651 km SW10415.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Argelès-Bagnères65715 km SW1039.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · 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 Gendreville'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
Repaix5492 km NE10511.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Andilly-en-Bassigny5238 km S1089.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Randevillers25119 km SE1069.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Fenneviller5490 km E1088.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Huilliécourt5215 km SW1077.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Chilly-sur-Salins39150 km S959.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %