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Bussiares

Aisne · CA de la Région de Château-Thierry · INSEE 02137

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

No daily shops 16.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bussiares (INSEE 02137) is in Aisne (02), part of CA de la Région de Château-Thierry. Population 126 (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/02137-bussiares

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 12,633 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 trend11010
Housing mix0.8354.17

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: 89 peak 2017: 152 2023: 126 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 126 (2012) → 126 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 75 (1990) → 126 (2023): 68 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 60, of which 8.3 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.0 km SW (Marigny-en-Orxois)GP — 5.0 km W (Gandelu)Food shop — 5.2 km W (Gandelu)Bakery — 8.9 km N (Neuilly-Saint-Front)Pharmacy — 9.0 km N (Neuilly-Saint-Front)
Primary school — 4.0 km SWGP — 5.0 km WFood shop — 5.2 km WBakery — 8.9 km NPharmacy — 9.0 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 (Neuilly-Saint-Front): 8.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Gandelu): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Gandelu): 5 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Neuilly-Saint-Front): 9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Marigny-en-Orxois): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the PASSY EN VALOIS weather station, 9.2 km away at 141 m; the village itself is at 107 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 9.2 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. [11]

An average of 761 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at DAMMARD, 7.5 km away at 146 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02137/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02137/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02137/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02137/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02543
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02339
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02465
  11. 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
Ommeray57254 km E12711.8No daily shopsno figures
Montoussin31669 km S12612.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Crécey-sur-Tille21219 km SE12711No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Verne25297 km SE12513.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 65 %
Pys80117 km N12513.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Béthencourt-sur-Somme8081 km N12410.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Béthencourt-sur-Somme8081 km N12410.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Pys80117 km N12513.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Crécey-sur-Tille21219 km SE12711No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Ommeray57254 km E12711.8No daily shopsno figures
Verne25297 km SE12513.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 65 %
Montoussin31669 km S12612.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 92 % · 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 Bussiares'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
Pys80117 km N12513.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Béthencourt-sur-Somme8081 km N12410.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Marizy-Sainte-Geneviève0211 km N12514.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Havelu28130 km W12715No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Blombay08119 km NE12811.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Gergny02104 km NE1278.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %