La Capelle

Aisne · CC de la Thiérache du Centre · INSEE 02141

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

Partly served 57.5/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Capelle (INSEE 02141) is in Aisne (02), part of CC de la Thiérache du Centre. Population 1,745 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/02141-la-capelle

Vitality score

Vitality score 57.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 90 % of the 10,524 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.82	20	16.42
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.7	10	7.04
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	0.31	10	3.12
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.88

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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) (LE FOUR A BOIS CAPELLOIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR MARKET). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LE GRAND CERF · L'ESCALE · AU SULKY). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE · ECOL PRIM PRIV MIX SACRE COEUR). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PIERRE SELLIER). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CRISTINA CHILRO, MÉDECIN · FRANCOIS-XAVIER CATIMEL, MÉDECIN · FABRICE SOYEZ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE AUBRY · PHARMACIE PRINCIPALE-LAZZARANO). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

2 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE · COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES DE LA THIÉRACHE DU CENTRE VILLA PASQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE MICHEL FLANDRE). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU NORD EST · CAISSE LOCAL DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU COEUR DE THIERACHE). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (TOUTES GENERATIONS COIFFURE · EMPREINTES LOIC MARIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 4 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE FOUR A BOIS CAPELLOIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR MARKET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	3	LE GRAND CERF · L'ESCALE · AU SULKY	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	4		INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE · ECOL PRIM PRIV MIX SACRE COEUR	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PIERRE SELLIER	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CRISTINA CHILRO, MÉDECIN · FRANCOIS-XAVIER CATIMEL, MÉDECIN · FABRICE SOYEZ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE AUBRY · PHARMACIE PRINCIPALE-LAZZARANO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	2	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE · COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES DE LA THIÉRACHE DU CENTRE VILLA PASQUE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE MICHEL FLANDRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	2	CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU NORD EST · CAISSE LOCAL DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU COEUR DE THIERACHE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	5	TOUTES GENERATIONS COIFFURE · EMPREINTES LOIC MARIE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 2,065 peak 1975: 2,196 2023: 1,745 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,823 (2012) → 1,745 (2023): -4.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,149 (1990) → 1,745 (2023): -18.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 977, of which 1.2 % second homes and 16.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (La Capelle): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Capelle): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Capelle): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Capelle): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Capelle): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.3

Days at or below 0 °C 62.6

Muggy days a summer 1

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 63 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CLAIRFONTAINE weather station, 3.6 km away at 225 m; the village itself is at 218 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at CLAIRFONTAINE, 3.6 km away at 225 m, over 12 summers. ^[9]

An average of 902 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CLAIRFONTAINE, 3.6 km away at 225 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02141/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02141/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02141/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02141/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02141
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
Estissac	10	190 km S	1,763	51.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Lentigny	42	442 km S	1,794	48.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 88 % · humidity 14 %
Pargny-sur-Saulx	51	150 km SE	1,654	44.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Avesnes-le-Comte	62	105 km W	1,840	56.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Herzeele	59	141 km NW	1,638	53.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt	02	51 km S	1,697	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt	02	51 km S	1,697	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Avesnes-le-Comte	62	105 km W	1,840	56.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Herzeele	59	141 km NW	1,638	53.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Pargny-sur-Saulx	51	150 km SE	1,654	44.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Estissac	10	190 km S	1,763	51.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Lentigny	42	442 km S	1,794	48.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 88 % · humidity 14 %

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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 La Capelle'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
Donchery	08	75 km SE	1,989	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Noirétable	42	462 km S	1,585	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Nouvion	80	155 km W	1,196	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Briouze	61	341 km SW	1,512	64.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Tillé	60	142 km SW	1,258	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Étalans	25	359 km SE	1,643	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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