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Haramont

Aisne · CC Retz en Valois · INSEE 02368

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

No daily shops 19.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 20 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Haramont (INSEE 02368) is in Aisne (02), part of CC Retz en Valois. Population 556 (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/02368-haramont

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 20 % of the 17,459 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
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.57105.73
Housing mix0.8454.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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)1ECOLE PRIMAIREINSEE BPE 1 [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: 359 peak 2007: 602 2023: 556 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 594 (2012) → 556 (2023): -6.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 518 (1990) → 556 (2023): 7.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 269, of which 8.2 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.8 km SE (Villers-Cotterêts)Bakery — 3.4 km SE (Villers-Cotterêts)GP — 3.4 km SE (Villers-Cotterêts)Pharmacy — 3.4 km SE (Villers-Cotterêts)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.8 km SEBakery — 3.4 km SEGP — 3.4 km SEPharmacy — 3.4 km SE 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 (Villers-Cotterêts): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Villers-Cotterêts): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Villers-Cotterêts): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Villers-Cotterêts): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Haramont): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). [9]

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the TAILLEFONTAINE weather station, 4 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 137 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 16.1 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. [10]

An average of 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at TAILLEFONTAINE, 4 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02368/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02368/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02368/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02368/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02810
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02368
  10. 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
Castel-Sarrazin40694 km SW55924.5Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 73 %
Marigny-en-Orxois0227 km SE53024.3Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
La Marche58238 km S50918.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Meulers76147 km NW57724Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Audrehem62184 km NW52123.9Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 89 %
Le Coudray-sur-Thelle6068 km W55421.9Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Marigny-en-Orxois0227 km SE53024.3Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Le Coudray-sur-Thelle6068 km W55421.9Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Meulers76147 km NW57724Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Audrehem62184 km NW52123.9Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 89 %
La Marche58238 km S50918.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Castel-Sarrazin40694 km SW55924.5Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 73 %

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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 Haramont'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
Fresnoy-le-Luat6021 km W55124.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Meaucé28174 km SW50116.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Grosley-sur-Risle27166 km W52218.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bertaucourt-Epourdon0246 km NE60122.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Muirancourt6041 km N58721.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Weislingen67308 km E52518.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %