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Saint-Pierre

Marne · CA de Châlons-en-Champagne · INSEE 51509

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

No daily shops 16.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Pierre (INSEE 51509) is in Marne (51), part of CA de Châlons-en-Champagne. Population 293 (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/51509-saint-pierre

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 17,750 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 trend0.94109.43
Housing mix0.9754.85

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 150 peak 2017: 301 2023: 293 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 291 (2012) → 293 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 203 (1990) → 293 (2023): 44.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 130, of which 1.5 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 2.7 km SW (Thibie)Bakery — 5.2 km N (Matougues)Primary school — 5.4 km N (Matougues)Pharmacy — 5.4 km E (Fagnières)GP — 5.7 km E (Fagnières)
Food shop — 2.7 km SWBakery — 5.2 km NPrimary school — 5.4 km NPharmacy — 5.4 km EGP — 5.7 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 (Matougues): 5.2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Thibie): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Fagnières): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Fagnières): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Matougues): 5.4 km to the north (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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the FAGNIERES-INRAE weather station, 4.7 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 92 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at FAGNIERES-INRAE, 4.7 km away at 105 m, over 30 summers. [11]

An average of 682 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at THIBIE, 2.7 km away at 97 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 — 51509/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  4. INSEE BPE 2025
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51509/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51509/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51509/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51357
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51566
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 51242
  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
Merschweiller57168 km E29017.5No daily shopsno figures
Condes52111 km SE29210.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Aubigny14326 km W29111.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Flavy1070 km SW29814No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-le-Château512.4 km NE29913.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ulrich68260 km SE29913.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villers-le-Château512.4 km NE29913.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Flavy1070 km SW29814No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Condes52111 km SE29210.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Merschweiller57168 km E29017.5No daily shopsno figures
Saint-Ulrich68260 km SE29913.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Aubigny14326 km W29111.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Pierre'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
Condes52111 km SE29210.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-le-Château512.4 km NE29913.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Crézilles54126 km E29117.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Beux57151 km E29616.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Rocourt-Saint-Martin0267 km W29912.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Pierreville54144 km E29912.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %