Mesbrecourt-Richecourt

Aisne · CC du Pays de la Serre · INSEE 02480

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

No daily shops 17.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mesbrecourt-Richecourt (INSEE 02480) is in Aisne (02), part of CC du Pays de la Serre. Population 320 (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 17.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 17,948 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	0.4	10	4.04
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 363 2023: 320 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 299 (2012) → 320 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 354 (1990) → 320 (2023): -9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 147, of which 2 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.1 km SEFood shop — 3.9 km WPrimary school — 4.1 km WGP — 5.8 km EPharmacy — 6.0 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 (Assis-sur-Serre): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Nouvion-et-Catillon): 3.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Crécy-sur-Serre): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Crécy-sur-Serre): 6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Nouvion-et-Catillon): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.5

Days at or below 0 °C 57.6

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the POUILLY-SUR-SERRE weather station, 4.5 km away at 68 m; the village itself is at 58 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at AULNOIS-SS-LAON, 12.8 km away at 78 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at POUILLY-SUR-SERRE, 4.5 km away at 68 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02480/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02480/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02480/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02480/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02027
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02559
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02237
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
Cierzac	17	543 km SW	323	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 76 % · humidity 14 %
Villeneuve-Renneville-Chevigny	51	95 km SE	326	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Croizet-sur-Gand	42	424 km S	320	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 21 %
Wolschheim	67	305 km E	311	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Senlis-le-Sec	80	78 km NW	324	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Garris	64	790 km SW	320	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Senlis-le-Sec	80	78 km NW	324	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-Renneville-Chevigny	51	95 km SE	326	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Wolschheim	67	305 km E	311	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Croizet-sur-Gand	42	424 km S	320	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 21 %
Cierzac	17	543 km SW	323	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 76 % · humidity 14 %
Garris	64	790 km SW	320	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · 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 Mesbrecourt-Richecourt'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
Villeneuve-Renneville-Chevigny	51	95 km SE	326	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Wolschheim	67	305 km E	311	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vitray-en-Beauce	28	221 km SW	346	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Wolfersdorf	68	348 km SE	354	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Laneuveville-en-Saulnois	57	229 km SE	285	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bergnicourt	08	60 km SE	292	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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