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Serocourt

Vosges · CC des Vosges côté Sud Ouest · INSEE 88456

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

No daily shops 6.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Serocourt (INSEE 88456) is in Vosges (88), part of CC des Vosges côté Sud Ouest. Population 84 (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/88456-serocourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 8,936 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 trend0.26102.64
Housing mix0.5952.97

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: 155 2023: 84 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 99 (2012) → 84 (2023): -15.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 110 (1990) → 84 (2023): -23.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 59, of which 20.3 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 1.3 km SW (Frain)Primary school — 4.8 km NE (Viviers-le-Gras)Pharmacy — 5.4 km W (Martigny-les-Bains)Food shop — 8.1 km W (Lamarche)GP — 8.9 km W (Lamarche)
Bakery — 1.3 km SWPrimary school — 4.8 km NEPharmacy — 5.4 km WFood shop — 8.1 km WGP — 8.9 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 (Frain): 1.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lamarche): 8.1 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Lamarche): 8.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Martigny-les-Bains): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Viviers-le-Gras): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the LIGNEVILLE weather station, 8.9 km away at 433 m; the village itself is at 379 m. [12]

The village sits 54 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. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at LIGNEVILLE, 8.9 km away at 433 m, over 23 summers. [12]

That station sits 54 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 1,108 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at LAMARCHE, 8.7 km away at 370 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88456/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88456/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88456/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88456/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88180
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88258
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88289
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88517
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Dolaincourt8828 km N8511.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Nant-le-Grand5582 km NW8212No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Vertamboz39167 km S839.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Burey-la-Côte5548 km N8615.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Châtel-Moron71173 km SW8312.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Éclance1096 km W866.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Dolaincourt8828 km N8511.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Burey-la-Côte5548 km N8615.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Nant-le-Grand5582 km NW8212No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Éclance1096 km W866.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Vertamboz39167 km S839.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Châtel-Moron71173 km SW8312.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Serocourt'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
Dolaincourt8828 km N8511.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Nant-le-Grand5582 km NW8212No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Louvières5246 km W875.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Semuy08179 km NW877.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Servon-Melzicourt51147 km NW876.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cléry-le-Grand55151 km N8810.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %