Oulchy-le-Château

Aisne · CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château · INSEE 02580

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

Partly served 50.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Oulchy-le-Château (INSEE 02580) is in Aisne (02), part of CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château. Population 785 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/02580-oulchy-le-chateau

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 15,759 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.42	10	4.17
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (UN ZESTE DE FEERIE · BOULANGERIE D'OULCHY). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (GODEBERT). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (NONO LES FRITES). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (RICHARD MINEUR, MÉDECIN · ALBERT BENAZRA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELURL PHARMACIE BOURGEOIS GORVIEN). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Hairdresser (SOL' HAIR CUT · L'ATELIER). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	UN ZESTE DE FEERIE · BOULANGERIE D'OULCHY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	GODEBERT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	NONO LES FRITES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PAUL LANDOWSKI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	RICHARD MINEUR, MÉDECIN · ALBERT BENAZRA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELURL PHARMACIE BOURGEOIS GORVIEN	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	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	2	SOL' HAIR CUT · L'ATELIER	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 721 peak 1990: 856 2023: 785 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 829 (2012) → 785 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 856 (1990) → 785 (2023): -8.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 393, of which 3.6 % second homes and 10.7 % 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 (Oulchy-le-Château): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Oulchy-le-Château): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Oulchy-le-Château): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Oulchy-le-Château): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Oulchy-le-Château): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.5

Days at or below 0 °C 52.1

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the OULCHY-LE-CHATE weather station, 3.6 km away at 122 m; the village itself is at 97 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 13 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

An average of 720 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at OULCHY-LE-CHATE, 3.6 km away at 122 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 — 02580/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02580/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02580/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02580/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02580
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
Amancey	25	313 km SE	744	63.9	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Lamarche	88	218 km SE	786	48.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Crézancy	02	20 km SE	1,166	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Leyr	54	216 km E	906	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bligny-sur-Ouche	21	253 km SE	814	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Beaumetz-lès-Loges	62	126 km NW	1,003	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Crézancy	02	20 km SE	1,166	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumetz-lès-Loges	62	126 km NW	1,003	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Leyr	54	216 km E	906	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lamarche	88	218 km SE	786	48.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Bligny-sur-Ouche	21	253 km SE	814	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Amancey	25	313 km SE	744	63.9	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · 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 Oulchy-le-Château'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
Crézancy	02	20 km SE	1,166	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Leyr	54	216 km E	906	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bligny-sur-Ouche	21	253 km SE	814	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Colombey-les-Belles	54	200 km E	1,416	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Ligny-le-Châtel	89	148 km S	1,200	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Vendeuil	02	57 km N	923	38.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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