Laigny

Aisne · CC de la Thiérache du Centre · INSEE 02401

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

No daily shops 14.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Laigny (INSEE 02401) is in Aisne (02), part of CC de la Thiérache du Centre. Population 189 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 14.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 15,632 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	0.23	10	2.33
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.85

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. ^[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	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	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: 287 2023: 189 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 214 (2012) → 189 (2023): -11.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 258 (1990) → 189 (2023): -26.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 104, of which 11.5 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.2 km EFood shop — 3.5 km EGP — 4.5 km SEBakery — 4.6 km SEPharmacy — 4.6 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 (Vervins): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fontaine-lès-Vervins): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vervins): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vervins): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Fontaine-lès-Vervins): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.7

Days at or below 0 °C 47.7

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FONTAINE-LES-VV weather station, 2.8 km away at 186 m; the village itself is at 171 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at FONTAINE-LES-VV, 2.8 km away at 186 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 833 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FONTAINE-LES-VV, 2.8 km away at 186 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 — 02401/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02401/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02401/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02401/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02789
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02321
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
Saint-Élix-d'Astarac	32	746 km S	187	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 59 % · humidity 50 %
Galiax	32	753 km SW	186	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Avit	47	649 km SW	185	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 58 % · humidity 57 %
Arancou	64	805 km SW	187	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 73 % · humidity 0 %
Angerville	14	289 km W	184	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Haucourt	76	160 km W	194	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Haucourt	76	160 km W	194	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Angerville	14	289 km W	184	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Avit	47	649 km SW	185	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 58 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Élix-d'Astarac	32	746 km S	187	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 59 % · humidity 50 %
Galiax	32	753 km SW	186	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 21 %
Arancou	64	805 km SW	187	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 73 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Laigny'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
Haucourt	76	160 km W	194	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Montfaucon	02	106 km S	209	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Escames	60	152 km W	226	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Planches	61	284 km SW	180	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Le Brévedent	14	266 km W	201	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Le Planquay	27	261 km W	158	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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