Rochesson

Vosges · CC des Hautes Vosges · INSEE 88391

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

Few services 23.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rochesson (INSEE 88391) is in Vosges (88), part of CC des Hautes Vosges. Population 676 (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/88391-rochesson

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 16,557 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.58	10	5.78
Housing mix	0.2	5	1.01

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 0 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) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE VALDENAIRE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (ROCHESSON AP). ^[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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE VALDENAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	ROCHESSON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 701 peak 1975: 755 2023: 676 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 713 (2012) → 676 (2023): -5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 627 (1990) → 676 (2023): 7.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 564, of which 39.9 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.1 km SWGP — 5.4 km WPharmacy — 5.4 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 (Rochesson): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gerbamont): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vagney): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Vagney): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.8

Days at or below 0 °C 57.2

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VAGNEY weather station, 3.5 km away at 805 m; the village itself is at 536 m. ^[11]

The village sits 269 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VAGNEY, 3.5 km away at 805 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 269 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,500 mm of rain a year, spread over 153 days — about 9.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VAGNEY, 3.5 km away at 805 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88391/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88391/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88391/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88391/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88391
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88197
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88486
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
Vittefleur	76	491 km NW	642	32.7	Few services	no figures
Serres-sur-Arget	09	696 km SW	819	32	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Tendon	88	14 km NW	499	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Brannay	89	273 km W	773	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Gerbépal	88	17 km NE	544	32	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-André-d'Embrun	05	383 km S	705	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tendon	88	14 km NW	499	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Gerbépal	88	17 km NE	544	32	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Brannay	89	273 km W	773	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-André-d'Embrun	05	383 km S	705	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Vittefleur	76	491 km NW	642	32.7	Few services	no figures
Serres-sur-Arget	09	696 km SW	819	32	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Rochesson'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
Arvillers	80	358 km NW	759	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Cleurie	88	8.8 km W	652	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Schorbach	57	126 km N	548	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Talmontiers	60	400 km NW	643	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Torcenay	52	101 km W	546	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Magny	28	411 km W	664	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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