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Viâpres-le-Petit

Aube · CC Seine et Aube · INSEE 10408

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

No daily shops 16/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Viâpres-le-Petit (INSEE 10408) is in Aube (10), part of CC Seine et Aube. Population 119 (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 16/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 12,100 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 & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.78107.8
Housing mix0.8554.26

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 1 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]

1 × Library (POINT LECTURE VIAPRES LE PETIT). [3]

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. [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 [3,4]
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]
Library1POINT LECTURE VIAPRES LE PETITINSEE BPE 1 [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: 95 peak 2017: 126 2023: 119 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 119 (2012) → 119 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 93 (1990) → 119 (2023): 28 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 68, of which 7.4 % second homes and 16.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.9 km SE (Pouan-les-Vallées)Bakery — 5.4 km W (Plancy-l'Abbaye)Pharmacy — 5.4 km W (Plancy-l'Abbaye)GP — 5.5 km W (Plancy-l'Abbaye)Food shop — 7.2 km SE (Arcis-sur-Aube)
Primary school — 2.9 km SEBakery — 5.4 km WPharmacy — 5.4 km WGP — 5.5 km WFood shop — 7.2 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 (Plancy-l'Abbaye): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Arcis-sur-Aube): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Plancy-l'Abbaye): 5.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Plancy-l'Abbaye): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Pouan-les-Vallées): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 70 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the CHAMPFLEURY weather station, 6.3 km away at 118 m; the village itself is at 85 m. [11]

An average of 752 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at CHAMPFLEURY, 6.3 km away at 118 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10408/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10408/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10408/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10408/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10289
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10006
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10299
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Changy5152 km NE11610.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 74 %
Thorey-Lyautey54147 km E11914.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 88 %
Braux1033 km E11411.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 70 %
Senonges88156 km E13110.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 80 %
Coustouge11621 km S11718.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 38 %
Soues80212 km NW12412.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 76 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Braux1033 km E11411.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 70 %
Changy5152 km NE11610.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 74 %
Thorey-Lyautey54147 km E11914.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 88 %
Senonges88156 km E13110.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 80 %
Soues80212 km NW12412.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 76 %
Coustouge11621 km S11718.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 38 %

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