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Muret-et-Crouttes

Aisne · CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château · INSEE 02533

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 13.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Muret-et-Crouttes (INSEE 02533) is in Aisne (02), part of CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château. Population 117 (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/02533-muret-et-crouttes

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 11,932 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
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.83108.3
Housing mix0.753.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
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)0INSEE BPE 0 [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: 139 2023: 117 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 133 (2012) → 117 (2023): -12 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 88 (1990) → 117 (2023): 33 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 74, of which 14.9 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.3 km N (Chacrise)Food shop — 6.5 km N (Serches)Bakery — 7.0 km NW (Septmonts)GP — 9.4 km N (Venizel)Pharmacy — 9.4 km N (Venizel)
Primary school — 2.3 km NFood shop — 6.5 km NBakery — 7.0 km NWGP — 9.4 km NPharmacy — 9.4 km N 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 (Septmonts): 7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Serches): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Venizel): 9.4 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Venizel): 9.4 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Chacrise): 2.3 km to the north (straight line). [11]

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the OULCHY-LE-CHATE weather station, 8.3 km away at 122 m; the village itself is at 94 m. [12]

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

Humidity measured at BRAINE, 11.1 km away at 61 m, over 28 summers. [12]

An average of 752 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at PARCY-ET-TIGNY, 6.1 km away at 148 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02533/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02533/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02533/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02533/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02706
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02711
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02780
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02154
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Xivray-et-Marvoisin55176 km E11811.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Avrecourt52214 km SE1179.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Rocquemont6043 km W11711.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Vesaignes-sous-Lafauche52185 km SE1168.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Courmont70301 km SE11913.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Loup-Nantouard70268 km SE1199.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Rocquemont6043 km W11711.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Xivray-et-Marvoisin55176 km E11811.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Vesaignes-sous-Lafauche52185 km SE1168.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Avrecourt52214 km SE1179.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-Nantouard70268 km SE1199.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Courmont70301 km SE11913.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · 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 Muret-et-Crouttes'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
Rocquemont6043 km W11711.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Vesaignes-sous-Lafauche52185 km SE1168.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Nampcelles-la-Cour0270 km NE1157.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Villeneuve-lès-Charleville5157 km S11715No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Delouze-Rosières55174 km SE1219No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Cesse55129 km E1197.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %