Charmes

Aisne · CA Chauny Tergnier La Fère · INSEE 02165

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

Partly served 42.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Charmes (INSEE 02165) is in Aisne (02), part of CA Chauny Tergnier La Fère. Population 1,568 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 42.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 11,290 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.35	10	3.45
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'AURORE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (DA VEIGA DE PINA EUGENIO). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DE LA MAIRIE). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MAURICE PRAT · EC PRIM PRI COURS LACORDAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PRIVE LACORDAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE LAFORGE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE ESPACE MARCELLINE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (CENTRE SOCIO EDUCATIF SAINT EXUPERY). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (LES CISEAUX D ANGEL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Supermarket.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L'AURORE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	DA VEIGA DE PINA EUGENIO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DE LA MAIRIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MAURICE PRAT · EC PRIM PRI COURS LACORDAIRE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PRIVE LACORDAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE LAFORGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE ESPACE MARCELLINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	CENTRE SOCIO EDUCATIF SAINT EXUPERY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	LES CISEAUX D ANGEL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 1,910 2023: 1,568 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,642 (2012) → 1,568 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,855 (1990) → 1,568 (2023): -15.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 806, of which 1.9 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 1.0 km NW 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 (Charmes): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Charmes): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Fère): 1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Charmes): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Charmes): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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, 13.2 km away at 83 m; the village itself is at 54 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHAUNY, 13.2 km away at 83 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TERGNIER, 4.4 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 — 02165/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02165/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02165/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02165/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02165
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02304
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
Le Vernet	03	394 km S	1,919	44.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Beauvois-en-Cambrésis	59	54 km N	1,933	55	Partly served	no figures
Pernes	62	115 km NW	1,574	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pin	77	99 km SW	1,530	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Jouy	28	184 km SW	1,988	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Erre	59	79 km N	1,586	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beauvois-en-Cambrésis	59	54 km N	1,933	55	Partly served	no figures
Erre	59	79 km N	1,586	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pin	77	99 km SW	1,530	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Pernes	62	115 km NW	1,574	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Jouy	28	184 km SW	1,988	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Vernet	03	394 km S	1,919	44.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Charmes'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
Pernes	62	115 km NW	1,574	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Jouy	28	184 km SW	1,988	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Erre	59	79 km N	1,586	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Rieux	60	74 km SW	1,559	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Rumegies	59	93 km N	1,722	54.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lapugnoy	62	113 km NW	3,481	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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