Nizy-le-Comte

Aisne · CC de la Champagne Picarde · INSEE 02553

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

No daily shops 16.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Nizy-le-Comte (INSEE 02553) is in Aisne (02), part of CC de la Champagne Picarde. Population 225 (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 16.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 16,694 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.34	10	3.4
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (F2C COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	F2C COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 225 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 256 (2012) → 225 (2023): -12.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 268 (1990) → 225 (2023): -16 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 3.3 % second homes and 13.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.4 km NEPharmacy — 6.9 km NBakery — 8.8 km SEGP — 8.8 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 (Saint-Germainmont): 8.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sévigny-Waleppe): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Germainmont): 8.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Dizy-le-Gros): 6.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Nizy-le-Comte): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.1

Days at or below 0 °C 57.3

Muggy days a summer 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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the NIZY-LE-COMTE weather station, 1.4 km away at 90 m; the village itself is at 92 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at NIZY-LE-COMTE, 1.4 km away at 90 m, over 27 summers. ^[12]

An average of 718 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at NIZY-LE-COMTE, 1.4 km away at 90 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 — 02553/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02553/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02553/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02553/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08381
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08418
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02264
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02553
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
Dours	65	759 km SW	225	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Royaucourt-et-Chailvet	02	38 km W	226	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Dognen	64	788 km SW	225	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Lorentzen	67	237 km E	230	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bouchon-sur-Saulx	55	136 km SE	227	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Auvers-sous-Montfaucon	72	349 km SW	231	22	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Royaucourt-et-Chailvet	02	38 km W	226	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bouchon-sur-Saulx	55	136 km SE	227	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lorentzen	67	237 km E	230	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Auvers-sous-Montfaucon	72	349 km SW	231	22	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Dours	65	759 km SW	225	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Dognen	64	788 km SW	225	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 58 % · 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 Nizy-le-Comte'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
Royaucourt-et-Chailvet	02	38 km W	226	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lorentzen	67	237 km E	230	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bouchon-sur-Saulx	55	136 km SE	227	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Destord	88	237 km SE	234	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chaudun	02	64 km SW	238	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Cuy	60	83 km W	215	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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