Champs

Aisne · CC Picardie des Châteaux · INSEE 02159

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

No daily shops 19.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Champs (INSEE 02159) is in Aisne (02), part of CC Picardie des Châteaux. Population 313 (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/02159-champs

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 17,885 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	0.58	10	5.76
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.7

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 (MICHÉE PASCALINE). ^[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	MICHÉE PASCALINE	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: 367 2023: 313 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 288 (2012) → 313 (2023): 8.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 291 (1990) → 313 (2023): 7.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 3 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.6 km EPrimary school — 2.6 km SBakery — 2.7 km EGP — 2.7 km EPharmacy — 2.7 km E 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 (Folembray): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Folembray): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Folembray): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Folembray): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Guny): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.4

Days at or below 0 °C 41.6

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHAUNY weather station, 11.1 km away at 83 m; the village itself is at 57 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHAUNY, 11.1 km away at 83 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 707 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BICHANCOURT, 5.3 km away at 59 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02159/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02159/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02159/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02159/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02318
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02363
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
Branscourt	51	51 km SE	308	22.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-sur-Ay	51	78 km SE	316	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Chemin	39	323 km SE	312	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Chaudefontaine	51	127 km E	312	18.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Meslières	25	357 km SE	323	17.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Crésantignes	10	165 km S	307	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Branscourt	51	51 km SE	308	22.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-sur-Ay	51	78 km SE	316	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Chaudefontaine	51	127 km E	312	18.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Crésantignes	10	165 km S	307	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Chemin	39	323 km SE	312	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Meslières	25	357 km SE	323	17.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 53 % · 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 Champs'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
Assevillers	80	50 km NW	311	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Liencourt	62	99 km NW	303	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Preux-au-Sart	59	88 km N	300	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Dury	62	81 km N	301	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Franqueux	51	55 km SE	298	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Brécy	02	45 km S	317	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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