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La Villeneuve-au-Châtelot

Aube · CC du Nogentais · INSEE 10421

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

No daily shops 10.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Villeneuve-au-Châtelot (INSEE 10421) is in Aube (10), part of CC du Nogentais. Population 146 (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/10421-la-villeneuve-au-chatelot

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 13,883 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 trend0.5105
Housing mix0.7953.95

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 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 [3,4]
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]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 152 2023: 146 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 146 (2012) → 146 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 146 (1990) → 146 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 76, of which 10.5 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km W (Barbuise)Bakery — 3.6 km S (Pont-sur-Seine)Food shop — 3.6 km S (Pont-sur-Seine)GP — 3.7 km S (Pont-sur-Seine)Pharmacy — 3.7 km S (Pont-sur-Seine)
Primary school — 2.7 km WBakery — 3.6 km SFood shop — 3.6 km SGP — 3.7 km SPharmacy — 3.7 km S 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 (Pont-sur-Seine): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Pont-sur-Seine): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Pont-sur-Seine): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Pont-sur-Seine): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Barbuise): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ROMILLY weather station, 11.4 km away at 77 m; the village itself is at 69 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at BOUY-SUR-ORVIN, 14.6 km away at 102 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 754 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at PLESSIS-BARBUIS, 3.6 km away at 95 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10421/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10421/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10421/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 10421/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10298
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10031
  10. 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
Bergicourt80176 km NW14511.4No daily shopsno figures
Campuzan65636 km SW1479.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Neuville-lès-Vaucouleurs55152 km E1439.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Cauvignac33539 km SW14314.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Jonville-en-Woëvre55169 km E14312.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bouix2198 km SE1508.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bouix2198 km SE1508.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-lès-Vaucouleurs55152 km E1439.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Jonville-en-Woëvre55169 km E14312.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bergicourt80176 km NW14511.4No daily shopsno figures
Cauvignac33539 km SW14314.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Campuzan65636 km SW1479.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

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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 La Villeneuve-au-Châtelot'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
Jonville-en-Woëvre55169 km E14312.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Urcy21171 km SE14316.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierrevillers55177 km NE14913.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Remilly-en-Montagne21163 km SE14616.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin36223 km SW14810.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Mathenay39237 km SE14816.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %