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Pargny-lès-Reims

Marne · CU du Grand Reims · INSEE 51422

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 38.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pargny-lès-Reims (INSEE 51422) is in Marne (51), part of CU du Grand Reims. Population 497 (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/51422-pargny-les-reims

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 17,787 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 food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0.63106.32
Health0.75107.48
Public & culture050
Population trend0.91109.12
Housing mix0.9354.65

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 2 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DUMENIL). [3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FRANCOISE MARIE-SPANTI, MÉDECIN · LOUIS JAISSON, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE DES COTEAUX). [3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (CARAMELLE COIFFURE). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1BOULANGERIE DUMENILINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)2FRANCOISE MARIE-SPANTI, MÉDECIN · LOUIS JAISSON, MÉDECININSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy1SELARL PHARMACIE DES COTEAUXINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Hairdresser1CARAMELLE COIFFUREINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 334 2023: 497 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 395 (2012) → 497 (2023): 25.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 352 (1990) → 497 (2023): 41.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 231, of which 3.5 % second homes and 10 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.6 km E (Les Mesneux)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.6 km E 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 (Pargny-lès-Reims): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Les Mesneux): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Pargny-lès-Reims): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Pargny-lès-Reims): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Pargny-lès-Reims): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the CHAMBRECY-CIVC weather station, 8.4 km away at 150 m; the village itself is at 137 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at CHAMBRECY-CIVC, 8.4 km away at 150 m, over 22 summers. [10]

An average of 750 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at CHAMBRECY-CIVC, 8.4 km away at 150 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 — 51422/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51422/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51422/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51422/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51422
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51365
  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
Canals82630 km S79839.7Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Montreuil-sur-Brêche60124 km W49728.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Espaubourg60151 km W50730.8Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Cures72314 km W48927.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Abbeville-Saint-Lucien60131 km W49931.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Ligny-Thilloy62125 km NW51425Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montreuil-sur-Brêche60124 km W49728.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Ligny-Thilloy62125 km NW51425Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Abbeville-Saint-Lucien60131 km W49931.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Espaubourg60151 km W50730.8Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Cures72314 km W48927.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Canals82630 km S79839.7Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Pargny-lès-Reims'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
Chaumuzy516.6 km SW34530.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Neuville-au-Pont5169 km E46327.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lucquy0852 km NE58445.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Aibre25276 km SE43423.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-sur-Fère0229 km W50822.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Brouviller57241 km E41227.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %