Vecoux

Vosges · CC de la Porte des Vosges Méridionales · INSEE 88498

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

Few services 37.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vecoux (INSEE 88498) is in Vosges (88), part of CC de la Porte des Vosges Méridionales. Population 871 (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/88498-vecoux

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 15,167 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.35	10	3.46
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.39

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (DON CAMILLO). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE - DES SOURCES -). ^[3]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	DON CAMILLO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE - DES SOURCES -	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	VECOUX 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 679 peak 1999: 1,097 2023: 871 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 914 (2012) → 871 (2023): -4.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,030 (1990) → 871 (2023): -15.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 475, of which 6.1 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.1 km NBakery — 2.9 km NEFood shop — 3.2 km NWPharmacy — 4.6 km NW 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 (Dommartin-lès-Remiremont): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Remiremont): 3.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dommartin-lès-Remiremont): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Remiremont): 4.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Vecoux): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20

Days at or below 0 °C 82.8

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 83 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BASSE-S-L-RUPT weather station, 6.8 km away at 445 m; the village itself is at 406 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

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

That station sits 399 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 1,574 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at REMIREMONT, 5.4 km away at 384 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 — 88498/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88498/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88498/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 88498/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88148
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88383
INSEE BPE 2025 — 88498
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
Allerey-sur-Saône	71	173 km SW	804	41.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Plassay	17	609 km W	823	33.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 26 % · humidity 71 %
Morgny	27	402 km NW	650	39.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 59 %
Serves-sur-Rhône	26	345 km SW	782	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye	76	446 km NW	745	48	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 42 %
Escrennes	45	331 km W	697	33.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Allerey-sur-Saône	71	173 km SW	804	41.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Escrennes	45	331 km W	697	33.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 50 %
Serves-sur-Rhône	26	345 km SW	782	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Morgny	27	402 km NW	650	39.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 59 %
Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye	76	446 km NW	745	48	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 42 %
Plassay	17	609 km W	823	33.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 26 % · 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 Vecoux'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
Belles-Fontaines	70	52 km S	600	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Beire-le-Châtel	21	124 km SW	921	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bliesbruck	57	132 km N	961	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Gevigney-et-Mercey	70	56 km W	532	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vy-lès-Lure	70	40 km S	704	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Lachapelle-sous-Rougemont	90	41 km SE	539	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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