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Vierzy

Aisne · CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château · INSEE 02799

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 12.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vierzy (INSEE 02799) is in Aisne (02), part of CC du Canton d'Oulchy-le-Château. Population 384 (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/02799-vierzy

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 18,015 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.58105.85
Housing mix0.9254.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 497 2023: 384 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 445 (2012) → 384 (2023): -13.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 354 (1990) → 384 (2023): 8.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 182, of which 3.8 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.2 km NW (Chaudun)Bakery — 5.0 km NE (Bernoy-le-Château)Food shop — 8.3 km N (Soissons)GP — 8.4 km NE (Belleu)Pharmacy — 9.2 km N (Belleu)
Primary school — 3.2 km NWBakery — 5.0 km NEFood shop — 8.3 km NGP — 8.4 km NEPharmacy — 9.2 km N 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 (Bernoy-le-Château): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Soissons): 8.3 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Belleu): 8.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Belleu): 9.2 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Chaudun): 3.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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. [12]

Measured at the OULCHY-LE-CHATE weather station, 13.3 km away at 122 m; the village itself is at 117 m. [12]

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

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 15.4 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. [12]

An average of 752 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at PARCY-ET-TIGNY, 3.6 km away at 148 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02799/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02799/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02799/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02799/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02564
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02722
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02064
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 02172
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
La Crique76157 km W38316.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 85 %
Thieulloy-l'Abbaye80114 km NW38015.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Tannois55155 km SE38710.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Touffréville14255 km W39216No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Warnécourt08110 km NE38311.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Fruncé28180 km SW37615.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Warnécourt08110 km NE38311.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Thieulloy-l'Abbaye80114 km NW38015.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Tannois55155 km SE38710.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
La Crique76157 km W38316.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 85 %
Fruncé28180 km SW37615.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Touffréville14255 km W39216No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Vierzy'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Fruncé28180 km SW37615.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Aubusson61285 km W39113.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Luplanté28177 km SW38416.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Ingenheim67315 km E37614.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Épieds0224 km SE39513.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Bréau7787 km S38414.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %