Remoncourt

Vosges · CC Terre d'Eau · INSEE 88385

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

Few services 28.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Remoncourt (INSEE 88385) is in Vosges (88), part of CC Terre d'Eau. Population 567 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 28.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 17,378 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.53	10	5.27
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.47

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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) (CHEZ DELPHINE ET KEVIN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (REMONCOURT AP). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CHEZ DELPHINE ET KEVIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	REMONCOURT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE REMONCOURT	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		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: 536 peak 2012: 605 2023: 567 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 605 (2012) → 567 (2023): -6.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 552 (1990) → 567 (2023): 2.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 300, of which 5.3 % second homes and 11.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 7.3 km SWFood shop — 8.2 km SWPharmacy — 8.2 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 (Remoncourt): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vittel): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vittel): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Vittel): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Remoncourt): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.3

Days at or below 0 °C 70.7

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 71 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MIRECOURT-INRAE weather station, 9.7 km away at 289 m; the village itself is at 324 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at MIRECOURT-INRAE, 9.7 km away at 289 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 841 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MIRECOURT-INRAE, 9.7 km away at 289 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 — 88385/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88385/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88385/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88385/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88385
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88516
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
Le Loroux	35	527 km W	621	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Treteau	03	281 km SW	520	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Peyraud	07	339 km S	516	30.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 45 % · humidity 64 %
Sologny	71	232 km SW	572	33.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	298 km NW	620	29	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Mailly-Champagne	51	176 km NW	617	27.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mailly-Champagne	51	176 km NW	617	27.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Sologny	71	232 km SW	572	33.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Treteau	03	281 km SW	520	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	298 km NW	620	29	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Peyraud	07	339 km S	516	30.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 45 % · humidity 64 %
Le Loroux	35	527 km W	621	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Remoncourt'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
Favières	54	27 km N	572	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Eydoche	38	315 km S	543	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Schorbach	57	137 km NE	548	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Genest-sur-Roselle	87	449 km SW	540	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Réchicourt-le-Château	57	76 km NE	550	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Harol	88	17 km SE	614	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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