Folembray

Aisne · CC Picardie des Châteaux · INSEE 02318

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

Partly served 43.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Folembray (INSEE 02318) is in Aisne (02), part of CC Picardie des Châteaux. Population 1,355 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 43.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 12,340 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.45	10	4.54
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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) (DELICES ET GOURMANDISES). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (GORA). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (PALANDRI TRAITEUR · LEMDOU). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE GRAND CERF). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE N. FORTEZ-G. MASSET). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JOSEPH HAGE, MÉDECIN · ANAIS VINCENT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SARL PHARMACIE MOYON BOUIN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE FOLEMBRAY). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (AU SALON DE MATHILDE). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	DELICES ET GOURMANDISES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	GORA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	PALANDRI TRAITEUR · LEMDOU	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE GRAND CERF	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE N. FORTEZ-G. MASSET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	JOSEPH HAGE, MÉDECIN · ANAIS VINCENT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SARL PHARMACIE MOYON BOUIN	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 MUNICIPALE DE FOLEMBRAY	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	AU SALON DE MATHILDE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 1,497 peak 2007: 1,535 2023: 1,355 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,428 (2012) → 1,355 (2023): -5.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,421 (1990) → 1,355 (2023): -4.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 723, of which 3.3 % second homes and 9.4 % 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 (Folembray): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Folembray): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Folembray): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Folembray): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Folembray): 0.3 km to the north-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. ^[9]

Measured at the CHAUNY weather station, 12.2 km away at 83 m; the village itself is at 85 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at CHAUNY, 12.2 km away at 83 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

An average of 781 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at COUCY-LA-VILLE, 5 km away at 171 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02318/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02318/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02318/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02318/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02318
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
La Saulce	05	605 km S	1,369	57.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Martinvast	50	357 km W	1,348	48.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Choisy-en-Brie	77	87 km S	1,354	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Étreux	02	56 km NE	1,436	49	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 72 %
Beaurevoir	02	51 km N	1,281	43.9	Partly served	no figures
Coudes	63	437 km S	1,225	54.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaurevoir	02	51 km N	1,281	43.9	Partly served	no figures
Étreux	02	56 km NE	1,436	49	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 72 %
Choisy-en-Brie	77	87 km S	1,354	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Martinvast	50	357 km W	1,348	48.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Coudes	63	437 km S	1,225	54.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Saulce	05	605 km S	1,369	57.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 0 % · 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 Folembray'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
Choisy-en-Brie	77	87 km S	1,354	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Hermonville	51	50 km SE	1,419	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Troissereux	60	90 km W	1,374	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Riquier	80	116 km NW	1,279	56.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Montreuil-aux-Lions	02	58 km S	1,305	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Holnon	02	36 km N	1,343	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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