Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache

Aisne · CC de la Thiérache du Centre · INSEE 02558

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Served 62.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 94 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache (INSEE 02558) is in Aisne (02), part of CC de la Thiérache du Centre. Population 2,468 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/02558-le-nouvion-en-thierache

Vitality score

Vitality score 62.2/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 94 % of the 8,321 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.68	20	13.63
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.68	10	6.82
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.35	10	3.5
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU PAIN DE BENJAMIN). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE SARRAZIN · BOUCHERIE NUTTENS). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PETIT CASINO). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (ALDI MARCHE · CHAMPION). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (HOTEL RESTAURANT DE LA PAIX · LA FRITERIE LE CABANON · H.T.D · SOLEIL · FRANCE PIZZA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE BLOT · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE ERNEST LAVISSE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LAVISSE-RICHEPIN). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE COLBERT QUENTIN). ^[3]

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-PIERRE VINCKIER, MÉDECIN · DENISE DESMET, MÉDECIN · BENEDICTE POULAIN BLEUSE, MÉDECIN · YOUCEF BETTA, MÉDECIN · EMMA PAGE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE VMP). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DU NOUVION EN THIERACHE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Bank (AGENCE LE NOUVION · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU NORD EST). ^[3]

9 × Hairdresser (TROCHAIN BETTINA · CATILLON PEGGY). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

2 × Hotel (AUBERGE DE LA FORET · HOTEL DE LA PAIX). ^[3,4]

3 × Campsite (CAMPING DU BEL ETANG · DOMAINE DU LAC DE CONDE L'ESPRIT NATURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Supermarket, 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Bank, 1 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel, 1 × Campsite.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	AU PAIN DE BENJAMIN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE SARRAZIN · BOUCHERIE NUTTENS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PETIT CASINO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	ALDI MARCHE · CHAMPION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	7	HOTEL RESTAURANT DE LA PAIX · LA FRITERIE LE CABANON · H.T.D · SOLEIL · FRANCE PIZZA	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	2	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE BLOT · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE ERNEST LAVISSE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LAVISSE-RICHEPIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE COLBERT QUENTIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	JEAN-PIERRE VINCKIER, MÉDECIN · DENISE DESMET, MÉDECIN · BENEDICTE POULAIN BLEUSE, MÉDECIN · YOUCEF BETTA, MÉDECIN · EMMA PAGE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL PHARMACIE VMP	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DU NOUVION EN THIERACHE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	2	AGENCE LE NOUVION · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU NORD EST	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	9	TROCHAIN BETTINA · CATILLON PEGGY	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	2	AUBERGE DE LA FORET · HOTEL DE LA PAIX	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	3	CAMPING DU BEL ETANG · DOMAINE DU LAC DE CONDE L'ESPRIT NATURE	INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 3,343 2023: 2,468 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,801 (2012) → 2,468 (2023): -11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,905 (1990) → 2,468 (2023): -15 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,419, of which 1.6 % second homes and 16 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.3

Days at or below 0 °C 69.3

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the NOUVION-EN-T weather station, 1.1 km away at 182 m; the village itself is at 178 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CLAIRFONTAINE, 14.2 km away at 225 m, over 12 summers. ^[9]

An average of 942 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at NOUVION-EN-T, 1.1 km away at 182 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02558/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02558/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02558/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02558/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02558
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
Patay	45	267 km SW	2,384	60.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-de-Marsan	40	748 km SW	2,508	62.3	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 55 % · humidity 36 %
Laroque-d'Olmes	09	797 km S	2,454	64.8	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Orgerus	78	200 km SW	2,489	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Stenay	55	117 km SE	2,403	68.9	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Trélon	59	23 km E	2,604	58.6	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trélon	59	23 km E	2,604	58.6	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Stenay	55	117 km SE	2,403	68.9	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Orgerus	78	200 km SW	2,489	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Patay	45	267 km SW	2,384	60.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-de-Marsan	40	748 km SW	2,508	62.3	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 55 % · humidity 36 %
Laroque-d'Olmes	09	797 km S	2,454	64.8	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache'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
Saulieu	21	306 km S	2,216	66.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Vervins	02	22 km SE	2,549	69	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Crèvecœur-le-Grand	60	131 km W	3,462	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Senonches	28	257 km SW	3,045	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Châtenois	88	242 km SE	1,723	57.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Rohrbach-lès-Bitche	57	274 km E	2,301	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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