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Blesme

Marne · CC Côtes de Champagne et Val de Saulx · INSEE 51068

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

No daily shops 11.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blesme (INSEE 51068) is in Marne (51), part of CC Côtes de Champagne et Val de Saulx. Population 193 (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/51068-blesme

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 15,747 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 trend0.51105.05
Housing mix0.9654.79

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 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: 249 2023: 193 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 205 (2012) → 193 (2023): -5.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 192 (1990) → 193 (2023): 0.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 97, of which 2.1 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.2 km W (Favresse)Primary school — 4.0 km SE (Saint-Vrain)Pharmacy — 5.1 km SW (Thiéblemont-Farémont)Food shop — 6.5 km NW (Heiltz-l'Évêque)GP — 7.3 km NE (Pargny-sur-Saulx)
Bakery — 3.2 km WPrimary school — 4.0 km SEPharmacy — 5.1 km SWFood shop — 6.5 km NWGP — 7.3 km NE 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 (Favresse): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Heiltz-l'Évêque): 6.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Pargny-sur-Saulx): 7.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Thiéblemont-Farémont): 5.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Saint-Vrain): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). [12]

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the FRIGNICOURT weather station, 11.9 km away at 113 m; the village itself is at 120 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at FRIGNICOURT, 11.9 km away at 113 m, over 30 summers. [13]

An average of 872 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at SOGNY, 9.8 km away at 116 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51068/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51068/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51068/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51068/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51246
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51290
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51423
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51567
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51521
  13. 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
Pourcy5179 km NW19414.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Louit65700 km SW19417.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 57 %
Gouves62233 km NW19512.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Vinets1045 km SW19112.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Braye-en-Laonnois02116 km NW19511.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Dury02165 km NW19112.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vinets1045 km SW19112.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Pourcy5179 km NW19414.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Braye-en-Laonnois02116 km NW19511.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Dury02165 km NW19112.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Gouves62233 km NW19512.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Louit65700 km SW19417.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Blesme'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
Braye-en-Laonnois02116 km NW19511.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Dury02165 km NW19112.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bouvron5481 km E19617.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-sur-Conie45243 km W1909.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Pauvres0879 km N19411.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Autreville8883 km E19417.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %