Ambrief

Aisne · CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château · INSEE 02012

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

No daily shops 17/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ambrief (INSEE 02012) is in Aisne (02), part of CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château. Population 79 (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/02012-ambrief

Vitality score

Vitality score 17/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 8,383 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.37	10	3.68
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LEBRAS-PANON). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	1	LEBRAS-PANON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 119 2023: 79 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 65 (2012) → 79 (2023): 21.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 91 (1990) → 79 (2023): -13.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 39, of which 5.1 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.7 km SBakery — 3.5 km NWFood shop — 3.6 km NEGP — 5.4 km NPharmacy — 5.4 km N 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 (Septmonts): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Serches): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Venizel): 5.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Venizel): 5.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Chacrise): 1.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.4

Days at or below 0 °C 55.5

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BRAINE weather station, 9.8 km away at 61 m; the village itself is at 115 m. ^[12]

The village sits 54 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °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 BRAINE, 9.8 km away at 61 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 54 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 752 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PARCY-ET-TIGNY, 6.7 km away at 148 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02012/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02012/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02012/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02012/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02706
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02711
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02780
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02154
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
Courtagnon	51	44 km SE	77	24.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Villouxel	88	193 km SE	83	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Nant-le-Petit	55	151 km SE	81	16	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Brassy	80	108 km NW	82	24.7	Few services	no figures
Couturelle	62	118 km NW	76	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Souhey	21	217 km S	82	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Courtagnon	51	44 km SE	77	24.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Brassy	80	108 km NW	82	24.7	Few services	no figures
Couturelle	62	118 km NW	76	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Nant-le-Petit	55	151 km SE	81	16	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Villouxel	88	193 km SE	83	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Souhey	21	217 km S	82	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Ambrief'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
Augy	02	8.5 km E	72	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Baulme-la-Roche	21	242 km SE	93	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ambonville	52	163 km SE	82	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Eccles	59	111 km NE	94	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Courtrizy-et-Fussigny	02	36 km NE	78	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-Conteville	60	105 km W	66	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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