Rouvres-la-Chétive

Vosges · CC de l'Ouest Vosgien · INSEE 88401

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 29.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rouvres-la-Chétive (INSEE 88401) is in Vosges (88), part of CC de l'Ouest Vosgien. Population 468 (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 29.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 17,894 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.38
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 423 2023: 468 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 444 (2012) → 468 (2023): 5.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 378 (1990) → 468 (2023): 23.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 214, of which 1.4 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.2 km EPharmacy — 4.2 km EFood shop — 4.3 km EGP — 4.3 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 (Châtenois): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Châtenois): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Châtenois): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Châtenois): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Rouvres-la-Chétive): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.9

Days at or below 0 °C 65.1

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ROLLAINVILLE weather station, 7.3 km away at 372 m; the village itself is at 374 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ROLLAINVILLE, 7.3 km away at 372 m, over 18 summers. ^[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, 4.1 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 — 88401/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88401/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88401/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88401/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88095
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88401
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
La Chapelle-Saint-Aubert	35	524 km W	479	29.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 50 %
Vany	57	100 km N	478	32.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Clémery	54	71 km NE	491	32.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Voyer	57	103 km E	445	28.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Surtauville	27	361 km W	489	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Hémévillers	60	261 km NW	463	30.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Clémery	54	71 km NE	491	32.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Vany	57	100 km N	478	32.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Voyer	57	103 km E	445	28.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Hémévillers	60	261 km NW	463	30.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Surtauville	27	361 km W	489	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Saint-Aubert	35	524 km W	479	29.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 50 %

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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 Rouvres-la-Chétive'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
Surtauville	27	361 km W	489	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Rott	67	175 km NE	462	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Nogent-l'Abbesse	51	159 km NW	542	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Auchy-la-Montagne	60	302 km NW	562	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Hardivillers	60	298 km NW	548	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chambœuf	21	136 km SW	374	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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