Villers-Cotterêts

Aisne · CC Retz en Valois · INSEE 02810

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

Partly served 51.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villers-Cotterêts (INSEE 02810) is in Aisne (02), part of CC Retz en Valois. Population 10,489 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Centres urbains intermédiaires (level 2). ^[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/02810-villers-cotterets

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 28 % of the 2,336 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	0.3	25	7.54
Social	0.77	20	15.39
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.47	10	4.72
Public & culture	0.12	5	0.59
Population trend	0.68	10	6.83
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

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 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES DE DAMIEN · LE PALAIS GOURMAND · HALESIAK · LA FROMENTINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (AU TERROIR GOURMAND). ^[3,4]

4 × Supermarket (LIDL · CENTRE DISTRIBUTEUR LECLERC · E. LECLERC EXPRESS · CARREFOUR MARKET). ^[3,4]

19 × Restaurant (CAFE ALEXANDRE DUMAS · GERIS · CHINATOWN · SARL YILMAZLAR · DELICES DE L'ASIE). ^[3,4]

8 × Café / bar (BAR DES PTT · CHEZ BUBU · LE RALLYE · LA FRANCAISE · LE RICHELIEU). ^[4]

4 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUB VALENTIN CLAVER · ECOL MATE PARC SALANSON · ECOLE MATERNELLE ALEXANDRE DUMAS · ECOLE MATERNELLE JEAN ZAY). ^[3]

4 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE FAUBOURG DE PISSELEUX · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE CHARLES-ALBERT DEMOUSTIER · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MONCOND'HUY · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE L LAGRANGE / CA DEMOUSTIER). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE MAX DUSSUCHAL · COLLEGE FRANCOIS 1ER). ^[3]

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MICHELE BOURGEOIS DE BOYNES, MÉDECIN · MARIE-CLAIRE FLAURE, MÉDECIN · BERTRAND RICHARD, MÉDECIN · SOLONIAINA CARON, MÉDECIN · JEAN-MARC WASCAT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE CENTRALE · PHARMACIE DERICQ · PHARMACIE MONTE CRISTO). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE ALEXANDRE DUMAS). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (CLUB 80). ^[3]

4 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE PLAINE DE NOUE · STADE MUNICIPAL G THIBAUT · COMPLEXE SPORTIF JACQUES GATINEAU · GYMNASE DE LA CROISETTE). ^[3]

9 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE DE VILLERS COTTERETS · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU NORD EST · VOLKSWAGEN BANK GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG · BANQUE CIC NORD OUEST). ^[3]

11 × Hairdresser (ALVARO-DELVAUX · SARL A.K.M · AXEL'HAIR). ^[3,4]

5 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

2 × Hotel (BONANITE (HOTEL RESTAURANT) · LE REGENT). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 7 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 3 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	AUX DELICES DE DAMIEN · LE PALAIS GOURMAND · HALESIAK · LA FROMENTINE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE DU CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AU TERROIR GOURMAND	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Supermarket	4	LIDL · CENTRE DISTRIBUTEUR LECLERC · E. LECLERC EXPRESS · CARREFOUR MARKET	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	19	CAFE ALEXANDRE DUMAS · GERIS · CHINATOWN · SARL YILMAZLAR · DELICES DE L'ASIE	INSEE BPE 19 / INSEE SIRENE 35 [3,4]
Café / bar	8	BAR DES PTT · CHEZ BUBU · LE RALLYE · LA FRANCAISE · LE RICHELIEU	INSEE SIRENE 8 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	4	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUB VALENTIN CLAVER · ECOL MATE PARC SALANSON · ECOLE MATERNELLE ALEXANDRE DUMAS · ECOLE MATERNELLE JEAN ZAY	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	4	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE FAUBOURG DE PISSELEUX · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE CHARLES-ALBERT DEMOUSTIER · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MONCOND'HUY · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE L LAGRANGE / CA DEMOUSTIER	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE MAX DUSSUCHAL · COLLEGE FRANCOIS 1ER	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	8	MICHELE BOURGEOIS DE BOYNES, MÉDECIN · MARIE-CLAIRE FLAURE, MÉDECIN · BERTRAND RICHARD, MÉDECIN · SOLONIAINA CARON, MÉDECIN · JEAN-MARC WASCAT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	3	SELARL PHARMACIE CENTRALE · PHARMACIE DERICQ · PHARMACIE MONTE CRISTO	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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	MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE ALEXANDRE DUMAS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	CLUB 80	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	4	GYMNASE PLAINE DE NOUE · STADE MUNICIPAL G THIBAUT · COMPLEXE SPORTIF JACQUES GATINEAU · GYMNASE DE LA CROISETTE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	9	CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE DE VILLERS COTTERETS · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU NORD EST · VOLKSWAGEN BANK GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG · BANQUE CIC NORD OUEST	INSEE BPE 9 [3]
Hairdresser	11	ALVARO-DELVAUX · SARL A.K.M · AXEL'HAIR	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Fuel station	5	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Hotel	2	BONANITE (HOTEL RESTAURANT) · LE REGENT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 7,437 peak 2017: 10,872 2023: 10,489 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 10,669 (2012) → 10,489 (2023): -1.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 8,867 (1990) → 10,489 (2023): 18.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 5,259, of which 1.4 % second homes and 8.3 % 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 (Villers-Cotterêts): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villers-Cotterêts): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Villers-Cotterêts): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Villers-Cotterêts): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Villers-Cotterêts): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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. ^[9]

Measured at the TAILLEFONTAINE weather station, 7.2 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 137 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at PASSY EN VALOIS, 12.7 km away at 141 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

An average of 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at TAILLEFONTAINE, 7.2 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02810/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02810/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02810/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02810/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02810
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
Thorigny-sur-Marne	77	50 km SW	10,440	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Clermont	60	51 km W	10,564	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf	76	150 km W	10,476	45.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Brumath	67	342 km E	10,499	50.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Portes-lès-Valence	26	506 km S	10,477	55.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Fosses	95	45 km W	10,570	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fosses	95	45 km W	10,570	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Thorigny-sur-Marne	77	50 km SW	10,440	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Clermont	60	51 km W	10,564	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf	76	150 km W	10,476	45.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Brumath	67	342 km E	10,499	50.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Portes-lès-Valence	26	506 km S	10,477	55.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 69 % · 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 Villers-Cotterêts'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
Clermont	60	51 km W	10,564	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Erstein	67	347 km E	10,790	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre	77	34 km S	10,254	59.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vitry-le-François	51	124 km SE	10,996	61.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chantilly	60	46 km W	10,591	60.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Dourdan	91	113 km SW	11,415	59.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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