Houécourt

Vosges · CC Terre d'Eau · INSEE 88241

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

Few services 34.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Houécourt (INSEE 88241) is in Vosges (88), part of CC Terre d'Eau. Population 421 (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/88241-houecourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 17,948 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.65	10	6.53
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.31

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 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) (AU PETRIN VOSGIEN). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHRIS VIANDES 88). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE HOUÉCOURT). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LE SALON). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU PETRIN VOSGIEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CHRIS VIANDES 88	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE HOUÉCOURT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	LE SALON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 488 2023: 421 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 429 (2012) → 421 (2023): -1.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 365 (1990) → 421 (2023): 15.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 216, of which 6.9 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 0.5 km SEGP — 4.1 km WPharmacy — 4.3 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 (Houécourt): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Houécourt): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Châtenois): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Châtenois): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Houécourt): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13

Days at or below 0 °C 59.2

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ROLLAINVILLE weather station, 14.5 km away at 372 m; the village itself is at 319 m. ^[10]

The village sits 53 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 ROLLAINVILLE, 14.5 km away at 372 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

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. ^[10]

An average of 983 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHATENOIS, 4.4 km away at 330 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88241/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88241/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88241/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88241/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88241
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88095
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Campneuseville	76	354 km NW	440	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Fremifontaine	88	59 km E	428	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Tostat	65	712 km SW	550	34.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 29 %
Auxon	70	72 km S	398	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Bust	67	115 km NE	454	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Escœuilles	62	393 km NW	461	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fremifontaine	88	59 km E	428	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Auxon	70	72 km S	398	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Bust	67	115 km NE	454	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Campneuseville	76	354 km NW	440	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Escœuilles	62	393 km NW	461	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Tostat	65	712 km SW	550	34.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Houécourt'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fremifontaine	88	59 km E	428	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bust	67	115 km NE	454	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Neuville-Bosc	60	302 km W	472	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-André-Farivillers	60	299 km NW	514	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Bonlier	60	303 km NW	467	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Coulmiers	45	317 km W	576	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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