Watigny

Aisne · CC des Trois Rivières · INSEE 02831

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

No daily shops 16.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Watigny (INSEE 02831) is in Aisne (02), part of CC des Trois Rivières. Population 350 (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/02831-watigny

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 18,079 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	5	0
Population trend	0.34	10	3.37
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.38

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	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	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: 449 2023: 350 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 374 (2012) → 350 (2023): -6.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 418 (1990) → 350 (2023): -16.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 178, of which 6.2 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.4 km WGP — 4.4 km NWBakery — 4.7 km WPharmacy — 4.7 km W 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 (Saint-Michel): 4.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Michel): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Michel): 4.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Michel): 4.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Watigny): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.4

Days at or below 0 °C 73.2

Muggy days a summer 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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 73 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the AUBENTON weather station, 7.8 km away at 177 m; the village itself is at 247 m. ^[10]

The village sits 70 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CLAIRFONTAINE, 17.7 km away at 225 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

An average of 996 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at AUBENTON, 7.8 km away at 177 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 — 02831/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02831/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02831/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 02831/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02684
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02831
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
Orban	81	693 km S	351	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Vieillevigne	31	748 km S	344	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 53 % · humidity 50 %
Roberval	60	128 km SW	350	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
La Madeleine-sur-Loing	77	218 km SW	347	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Saincaize-Meauce	58	341 km S	358	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Tancrou	77	130 km SW	340	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Roberval	60	128 km SW	350	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Tancrou	77	130 km SW	340	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
La Madeleine-sur-Loing	77	218 km SW	347	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Saincaize-Meauce	58	341 km S	358	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Orban	81	693 km S	351	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Vieillevigne	31	748 km S	344	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 53 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Watigny'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
Écueil	51	82 km S	358	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Barzy-en-Thiérache	02	35 km NW	316	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Barthélemy	77	135 km SW	335	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Gaudechart	60	163 km W	347	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Barcy	77	137 km SW	387	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Presles-et-Thierny	02	60 km SW	401	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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