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Berlancourt

Aisne · CC de la Thiérache du Centre · INSEE 02068

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

No daily shops 8.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Berlancourt (INSEE 02068) is in Aisne (02), part of CC de la Thiérache du Centre. Population 85 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/02068-berlancourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 9,031 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 trend0.26102.59
Housing mix0.9554.73

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 122 2023: 85 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 106 (2012) → 85 (2023): -19.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 85 (2023): -24.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 37, of which 2.7 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.4 km S (Marle)Bakery — 4.1 km S (Marle)GP — 4.4 km S (Marle)Pharmacy — 4.4 km S (Marle)Primary school — 4.6 km S (Marle)
Food shop — 3.4 km SBakery — 4.1 km SGP — 4.4 km SPharmacy — 4.4 km SPrimary school — 4.6 km S 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 (Marle): 4.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Marle): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Marle): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Marle): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Marle): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the FONTAINE-LES-VV weather station, 10.8 km away at 186 m; the village itself is at 150 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at FONTAINE-LES-VV, 10.8 km away at 186 m, over 29 summers. [9]

An average of 857 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at ROGNY, 4.4 km away at 115 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02068/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02068/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02068/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02068/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02468
  9. 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
Saint-Laurent-du-Plan33643 km SW8512.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Ribeauville0232 km NW8611.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 80 %
Le Chateley39349 km SE8612.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-Gimois32732 km S8711.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Amenoncourt54255 km SE8711No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Conteville-en-Ternois62125 km NW8313.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ribeauville0232 km NW8611.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 80 %
Conteville-en-Ternois62125 km NW8313.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Amenoncourt54255 km SE8711No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Le Chateley39349 km SE8612.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Laurent-du-Plan33643 km SW8512.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Martin-Gimois32732 km S8711.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 64 % · 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 Berlancourt'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
Conteville-en-Ternois62125 km NW8313.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Coulmer61275 km SW8111.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Fay8069 km W9113.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ville-Savoye0255 km S8416.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Longavesnes8054 km NW778.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-lès-Boulans62133 km NW9712.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %