Recy

Marne · CA de Châlons-en-Champagne · INSEE 51453

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

Few services 21.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Recy (INSEE 51453) is in Marne (51), part of CA de Châlons-en-Champagne. Population 1,093 (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/51453-recy

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 13,785 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.63	10	6.26
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

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 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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) (LE FOURNIL DE RECY). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS PIERRE ARNOULD). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE RECY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DES SPORTS PIERRE ARNOULD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 480 2023: 1,093 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,043 (2012) → 1,093 (2023): 4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 971 (1990) → 1,093 (2023): 12.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 479, of which 0.4 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 2.0 km SEFood shop — 2.5 km EPharmacy — 2.5 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 (Recy): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-sur-le-Pré): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Martin-sur-le-Pré): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Martin-sur-le-Pré): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Recy): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.8

Days at or below 0 °C 51.7

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FAGNIERES-INRAE weather station, 5.3 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 80 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FAGNIERES-INRAE, 5.3 km away at 105 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 652 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FAGNIERES-INRAE, 5.3 km away at 105 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51453/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51453/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51453/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51453/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51453
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51504
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chambry	77	104 km W	1,064	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux	53	387 km W	1,172	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Laquenexy	57	146 km E	1,255	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Aydoilles	88	187 km SE	1,018	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Guessling-Hémering	57	171 km E	925	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Vergeroux	17	521 km SW	1,279	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chambry	77	104 km W	1,064	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Laquenexy	57	146 km E	1,255	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Guessling-Hémering	57	171 km E	925	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Aydoilles	88	187 km SE	1,018	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux	53	387 km W	1,172	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vergeroux	17	521 km SW	1,279	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 68 % · 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 Recy'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chambry	77	104 km W	1,064	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux	53	387 km W	1,172	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Crouy-en-Thelle	60	147 km W	1,092	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Feldkirch	68	252 km SE	1,047	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Prunay	51	25 km N	1,042	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Roppenheim	67	274 km E	1,031	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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