Saint-Simon

Aisne · CA du Saint-Quentinois · INSEE 02694

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

No daily shops 19.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Simon (INSEE 02694) is in Aisne (02), part of CA du Saint-Quentinois. Population 593 (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/02694-saint-simon

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 18 % of the 17,106 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.36	10	3.63
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

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 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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 PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT SIMON AP). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (PLATEAU D EVOLUTION). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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]
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 PUBLIQUE	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	1	SAINT SIMON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	PLATEAU D EVOLUTION	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		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: 564 peak 1990: 687 2023: 593 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 605 (2012) → 593 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 687 (1990) → 593 (2023): -13.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 277, of which 1.4 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.2 km SEBakery — 3.7 km SFood shop — 3.7 km SPharmacy — 3.8 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 (Flavy-le-Martel): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Flavy-le-Martel): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Flavy-le-Martel): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Flavy-le-Martel): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Simon): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.4

Days at or below 0 °C 61.7

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CLASTRES weather station, 4.1 km away at 75 m; the village itself is at 79 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST QUENTIN, 8.7 km away at 98 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 732 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CLASTRES, 4.1 km away at 75 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02694/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02694/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02694/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02694/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02315
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02694
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
Faverolles-et-Coëmy	51	72 km SE	601	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cheminon	51	168 km SE	578	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Neuve-Maison	02	65 km E	602	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Gizy	02	46 km E	630	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Cricq-Chalosse	40	738 km SW	614	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 55 %
Granges-sur-Lot	47	631 km S	590	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 65 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gizy	02	46 km E	630	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Neuve-Maison	02	65 km E	602	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Faverolles-et-Coëmy	51	72 km SE	601	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cheminon	51	168 km SE	578	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Granges-sur-Lot	47	631 km S	590	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 65 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Cricq-Chalosse	40	738 km SW	614	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 55 %

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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 Saint-Simon'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
Faverolles-et-Coëmy	51	72 km SE	601	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Gizy	02	46 km E	630	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Val-des-Marais	51	115 km SE	549	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Fermeté	58	309 km S	617	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaine-Fourches	77	149 km S	576	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt	02	53 km E	543	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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