Taillefontaine

Aisne · CC Retz en Valois · INSEE 02734

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Taillefontaine (INSEE 02734) is in Aisne (02), part of CC Retz en Valois. Population 257 (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 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 17,348 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.45	10	4.52
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 320 2023: 257 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 262 (2012) → 257 (2023): -1.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 270 (1990) → 257 (2023): -4.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 145, of which 11 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.6 km EBakery — 6.0 km NWFood shop — 6.1 km NWPharmacy — 6.1 km NW 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 (Pierrefonds): 6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pierrefonds): 6.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vivières): 4.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pierrefonds): 6.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Taillefontaine): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.4

Days at or below 0 °C 56.5

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the TAILLEFONTAINE weather station, 0.2 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 126 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 19.9 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TAILLEFONTAINE, 0.2 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02734/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02734/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02734/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02734/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60491
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02822
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02734
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
Souclin	01	421 km SE	262	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Le Landin	27	163 km W	254	31.4	Few services	no figures
Maruéjols-lès-Gardon	30	596 km S	259	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Sarcus	60	95 km NW	262	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-Saint-Salves	89	168 km S	256	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Émeringes	69	365 km S	275	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sarcus	60	95 km NW	262	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Le Landin	27	163 km W	254	31.4	Few services	no figures
Villeneuve-Saint-Salves	89	168 km S	256	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Émeringes	69	365 km S	275	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Souclin	01	421 km SE	262	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Maruéjols-lès-Gardon	30	596 km S	259	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Taillefontaine'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
Villuis	77	103 km S	272	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Herbeville	78	95 km SW	228	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Anguilcourt-le-Sart	02	51 km NE	274	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Juvigny-sur-Loison	55	167 km E	239	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Clos-Fontaine	77	78 km S	244	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Han-sur-Nied	57	249 km E	249	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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