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Pouillon

Marne · CU du Grand Reims · INSEE 51444

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

No daily shops 13.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pouillon (INSEE 51444) is in Marne (51), part of CU du Grand Reims. Population 529 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). [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/51444-pouillon

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 17,629 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 trend0.69106.86
Housing mix0.9454.68

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: 305 2023: 529 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 483 (2012) → 529 (2023): 9.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 446 (1990) → 529 (2023): 18.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 219, of which 3.2 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 1.4 km SE (Saint-Thierry)Bakery — 1.5 km SE (Saint-Thierry)Primary school — 1.5 km SE (Saint-Thierry)Pharmacy — 1.5 km SE (Saint-Thierry)Food shop — 3.8 km NW (Hermonville)
GP — 1.4 km SEBakery — 1.5 km SEPrimary school — 1.5 km SEPharmacy — 1.5 km SEFood shop — 3.8 km NW 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 (Saint-Thierry): 1.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Hermonville): 3.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Thierry): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Thierry): 1.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Saint-Thierry): 1.5 km to the south-east (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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST THIERRY-CIVC weather station, 1.7 km away at 135 m; the village itself is at 143 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at REIMS-COURCY, 7.3 km away at 91 m, over 17 summers. [10]

That station sits 52 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 623 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 5.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ST THIERRY-CIVC, 1.7 km away at 135 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 — 51444/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51444/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51444/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51444/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51518
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51291
  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
Heutrégiville5123 km E50817.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Sormonne0871 km NE52911.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Pusy-et-Épenoux70245 km SE54012.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais53392 km W56713.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Granieu38431 km S51916.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 31 % · winter 50 %
Virecourt54197 km SE48714.1No daily shopsno figures
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Heutrégiville5123 km E50817.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Sormonne0871 km NE52911.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Virecourt54197 km SE48714.1No daily shopsno figures
Pusy-et-Épenoux70245 km SE54012.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais53392 km W56713.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Granieu38431 km S51916.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 31 % · winter 50 %

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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 Pouillon'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
Romeries59103 km N47114No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Behonne55107 km SE5958.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vrély80106 km NW45912.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Marchezais28188 km W41317.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Wintzenheim-Kochersberg67270 km E53224.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Aveluy80122 km NW54019.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %