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Harchéchamp

Vosges · CC de l'Ouest Vosgien · INSEE 88229

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

No daily shops 10.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Harchéchamp (INSEE 88229) is in Vosges (88), part of CC de l'Ouest Vosgien. Population 87 (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/88229-harchechamp

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 9,243 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 trend0.45104.46
Housing mix0.954.52

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: 100 peak 1982: 112 2023: 87 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 97 (2012) → 87 (2023): -10.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 92 (1990) → 87 (2023): -5.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 62, of which 4.8 % second homes and 19.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 2.2 km E (Attignéville)Bakery — 3.7 km NW (Soulosse-sous-Saint-Élophe)Pharmacy — 6.4 km W (Neufchâteau)Primary school — 6.8 km N (Martigny-les-Gerbonvaux)GP — 7.0 km W (Coussey)
Food shop — 2.2 km EBakery — 3.7 km NWPharmacy — 6.4 km WPrimary school — 6.8 km NGP — 7.0 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 (Soulosse-sous-Saint-Élophe): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Attignéville): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Coussey): 7 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Neufchâteau): 6.4 km to the west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Martigny-les-Gerbonvaux): 6.8 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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the ROLLAINVILLE weather station, 5.6 km away at 372 m; the village itself is at 297 m. [13]

The village sits 75 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. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at ROLLAINVILLE, 5.6 km away at 372 m, over 18 summers. [13]

That station sits 75 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 862 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at ROLLAINVILLE, 5.6 km away at 372 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 — 88229/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88229/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88229/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88229/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88460
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88015
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88118
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88321
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88290
  13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Morval62279 km NW8710.2No daily shopsno figures
Accolans25114 km SE8711.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 54 %
Charey5469 km N8814No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Grandville10116 km W8611.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 93 %
Le Beulay8896 km E888.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Thénorgues08129 km NW8511.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 88 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Charey5469 km N8814No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Beulay8896 km E888.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Accolans25114 km SE8711.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 54 %
Grandville10116 km W8611.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 93 %
Thénorgues08129 km NW8511.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 88 %
Morval62279 km NW8710.2No daily shopsno figures

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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 Harchéchamp'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
Charey5469 km N8814No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Ippécourt5583 km NW8810.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Chicourt5780 km NE889.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Frémery5778 km NE8717.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vigneul-sous-Montmédy55129 km N8610.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Le Buisson5186 km NW8310.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %