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Bouchy-Saint-Genest

Marne · CC de Sézanne-Sud Ouest Marnais · INSEE 51071

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

No daily shops 14.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bouchy-Saint-Genest (INSEE 51071) is in Marne (51), part of CC de Sézanne-Sud Ouest Marnais. Population 213 (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/51071-bouchy-saint-genest

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 16,342 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 trend0.86108.57
Housing mix0.7753.86

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: 189 2023: 213 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 186 (2012) → 213 (2023): 14.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 157 (1990) → 213 (2023): 35.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 114, of which 11.4 % second homes and 14 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.6 km NE (Les Essarts-le-Vicomte)Food shop — 7.1 km N (Courgivaux)Bakery — 7.5 km SE (Villenauxe-la-Grande)Pharmacy — 7.5 km SE (Villenauxe-la-Grande)GP — 7.7 km SE (Villenauxe-la-Grande)
Primary school — 3.6 km NEFood shop — 7.1 km NBakery — 7.5 km SEPharmacy — 7.5 km SEGP — 7.7 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 (Villenauxe-la-Grande): 7.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Courgivaux): 7.1 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Villenauxe-la-Grande): 7.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Villenauxe-la-Grande): 7.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Les Essarts-le-Vicomte): 3.6 km to the north-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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 71 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ESTERNAY-MAN weather station, 10.9 km away at 175 m; the village itself is at 166 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at ESTERNAY, 11.4 km away at 185 m, over 30 summers. [11]

An average of 785 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ESTERNAY-MAN, 10.9 km away at 175 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 — 51071/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51071/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51071/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51071/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10420
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51185
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51236
  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
Val-Suzon21172 km SE21311.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Boutencourt60142 km NW21313.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Villegaudin71238 km SE21516.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Pardoult17419 km SW21112No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Brainville50370 km W21416.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-de-Buffigny1024 km SE21614.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Loup-de-Buffigny1024 km SE21614.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Boutencourt60142 km NW21313.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Val-Suzon21172 km SE21311.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Villegaudin71238 km SE21516.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 64 %
Brainville50370 km W21416.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pardoult17419 km SW21112No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 57 % · 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 Bouchy-Saint-Genest'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
Membrey70203 km SE2089.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Frémonville54249 km E21111.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Filain70235 km SE21711.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Thillot55164 km E20314.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Courgis8999 km S2319.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Vulaines1047 km S22613No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %