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Urcerey

Territoire de Belfort · CA Grand Belfort · INSEE 90098

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

No daily shops 11.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Urcerey (INSEE 90098) is in Territoire de Belfort (90), part of CA Grand Belfort. Population 257 (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/90098-urcerey

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 17,348 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 trend0.45104.48
Housing mix0.9854.92

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: 135 peak 1990: 271 2023: 257 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 206 (2012) → 257 (2023): 24.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 271 (1990) → 257 (2023): -5.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 0.8 % second homes and 3.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.4 km NE (Bavilliers)Primary school — 1.6 km E (Argiésans)Bakery — 2.3 km NE (Bavilliers)Pharmacy — 2.3 km NE (Bavilliers)GP — 2.4 km NE (Bavilliers)
Food shop — 1.4 km NEPrimary school — 1.6 km EBakery — 2.3 km NEPharmacy — 2.3 km NEGP — 2.4 km NE 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 (Bavilliers): 2.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bavilliers): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Bavilliers): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Bavilliers): 2.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Argiésans): 1.6 km to the east (straight line). [9]

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the DORANS weather station, 2.8 km away at 401 m; the village itself is at 376 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at DORANS, 2.8 km away at 401 m, over 16 summers. [10]

An average of 995 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at DORANS, 2.8 km away at 401 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90098/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90098/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90098/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90098/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 90008
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 90004
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Gercy02327 km NW2589No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lamotte-Brebière80411 km NW26014.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Zehnacker67128 km N25417.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bettrechies59376 km NW25312.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Nort-Leulinghem62493 km NW26117.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 86 %
Labatmale64733 km SW25714.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Zehnacker67128 km N25417.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gercy02327 km NW2589No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bettrechies59376 km NW25312.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lamotte-Brebière80411 km NW26014.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Nort-Leulinghem62493 km NW26117.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 86 %
Labatmale64733 km SW25714.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Urcerey'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
Zehnacker67128 km N25417.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gildwiller6826 km E26110.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Hannonville-Suzémont54181 km NW26213.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Plichancourt51203 km NW24817.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Rolbing57180 km N25911.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Franey2584 km SW26317.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %