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Homblières

Aisne · CA du Saint-Quentinois · INSEE 02383

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

Few services 35/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Homblières (INSEE 02383) is in Aisne (02), part of CA du Saint-Quentinois. Population 1,412 (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/02383-homblieres

Vitality score

Vitality score 35/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 12,051 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
Social0.512010.26
Education0.39103.93
Health0.51105.13
Public & culture0.250.98
Population trend0.44104.44
Housing mix154.99

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 of 2
Sport 1 of 2
Everyday services 1 of 3
Lodging 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. [3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE CHAROALIS · BELLA VITA). [3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE CARPE DIEM). [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). [3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (GUIREC DE SAINT POL, MÉDECIN · DAVID DOUBLET, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE BASSET). [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (HOMBLIERES BRUET LAURENT RP). [3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). [3]

3 × Hairdresser. [3,4]

1 × Campsite (LE COLVERT). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant2LE CHAROALIS · BELLA VITAINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar1LE CARPE DIEMINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)2GUIREC DE SAINT POL, MÉDECIN · DAVID DOUBLET, MÉDECININSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy1SELARL PHARMACIE BASSETINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1HOMBLIERES BRUET LAURENT RPINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall1COMPLEXE SPORTIFINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser3INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite1LE COLVERTINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 891 peak 2012: 1,505 2023: 1,412 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,505 (2012) → 1,412 (2023): -6.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,495 (1990) → 1,412 (2023): -5.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 689, of which 0.1 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.0 km W (Harly)Bakery — 3.8 km SW (Saint-Quentin)
In the commune Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 3.0 km WBakery — 3.8 km SW 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 (Saint-Quentin): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Harly): 3 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Homblières): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Homblières): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Homblières): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). [10]

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ST QUENTIN weather station, 12 km away at 98 m; the village itself is at 84 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at ST QUENTIN, 12 km away at 98 m, over 30 summers. [11]

An average of 740 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ORIGNY-STE-BENO, 8.3 km away at 75 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

What property sold for

84 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 147,950 € — 1,333 € per m² of built surface. [12]

11 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 53,000 € — 937 € per m². [12]

The median across Aisne is 1,096 € per m², so this commune sits above it. [12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02383/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02383/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02383/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02383/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02691
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02371
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02383
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Rumilly-en-Cambrésis5932 km N1,43136Few servicesno figures
Scharrachbergheim-Irmstett67331 km SE1,35937.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Boué0230 km NE1,31544.4Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Mortagne-du-Nord5973 km N1,59944.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bréauté76215 km W1,32943.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 85 %
Grez-sur-Loing77178 km S1,43240.5Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Boué0230 km NE1,31544.4Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Rumilly-en-Cambrésis5932 km N1,43136Few servicesno figures
Mortagne-du-Nord5973 km N1,59944.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Grez-sur-Loing77178 km S1,43240.5Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Bréauté76215 km W1,32943.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 85 %
Scharrachbergheim-Irmstett67331 km SE1,35937.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · 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 Homblières'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
Mortagne-du-Nord5973 km N1,59944.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vaulx-Vraucourt6247 km NW1,09931.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Chépy80125 km W1,19034.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Haye-Malherbe27180 km W1,40947.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Haussy5942 km N1,45131.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Avesnes-le-Sec5944 km N1,45831.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %