Lucy-le-Bocage

Aisne · CC du Canton de Charly-sur-Marne · INSEE 02443

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

Few services 25.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lucy-le-Bocage (INSEE 02443) is in Aisne (02), part of CC du Canton de Charly-sur-Marne. Population 202 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 25.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 16,005 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.93	10	9.33
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.51

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 1 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 (MA P'TITE FABRIQUE GOURMANDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE A.C.S.L). ^[3]

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. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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	MA P'TITE FABRIQUE GOURMANDE	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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE A.C.S.L	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	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: 140 2023: 202 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 183 (2012) → 202 (2023): 10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 141 (1990) → 202 (2023): 43.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 103, of which 4.9 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km WFood shop — 6.0 km SEBakery — 6.9 km EGP — 7.3 km SWPharmacy — 8.4 km E 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 (Château-Thierry): 6.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Essômes-sur-Marne): 6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montreuil-aux-Lions): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Château-Thierry): 8.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Marigny-en-Orxois): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.9

Days at or below 0 °C 49.8

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PASSY EN VALOIS weather station, 13.3 km away at 141 m; the village itself is at 178 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 13.3 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

An average of 761 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at DAMMARD, 11.6 km away at 146 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02443/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02443/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02443/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02443/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02168
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02290
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02521
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02465
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
Labalme	01	369 km SE	204	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Merles	82	583 km S	200	22.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %
Ranton	86	336 km SW	204	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Meunet-sur-Vatan	36	244 km SW	198	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Faux-Villecerf	10	87 km SE	215	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Savigny-sous-Mâlain	21	221 km SE	234	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Faux-Villecerf	10	87 km SE	215	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Savigny-sous-Mâlain	21	221 km SE	234	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Meunet-sur-Vatan	36	244 km SW	198	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Ranton	86	336 km SW	204	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Labalme	01	369 km SE	204	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Merles	82	583 km S	200	22.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Lucy-le-Bocage'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
Savigny-sous-Mâlain	21	221 km SE	234	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-aux-Bois	60	73 km NW	263	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Théméricourt	95	101 km W	283	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
La Faloise	80	99 km NW	204	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Renneville	27	147 km W	208	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Beaumetz-lès-Aire	62	181 km NW	222	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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