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Ageville

Haute-Marne · CA de Chaumont · INSEE 52001

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

No daily shops 10/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 7 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ageville (INSEE 52001) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CA de Chaumont. Population 290 (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/52001-ageville

Vitality score

Vitality score 10/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 7 % of the 17,798 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 trend0.48104.76
Housing mix0.7553.76

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Hairdresser1INSEE 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: 234 peak 1982: 310 2023: 290 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 309 (2012) → 290 (2023): -6.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 297 (1990) → 290 (2023): -2.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 145, of which 12.4 % second homes and 0.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 1.9 km N (Esnouveaux)Food shop — 5.2 km SW (Biesles)Pharmacy — 5.2 km SW (Biesles)Bakery — 8.3 km S (Nogent)GP — 8.6 km S (Nogent)
Primary school — 1.9 km NFood shop — 5.2 km SWPharmacy — 5.2 km SWBakery — 8.3 km SGP — 8.6 km S 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 (Nogent): 8.3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Biesles): 5.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Nogent): 8.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Biesles): 5.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Esnouveaux): 1.9 km to the north (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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 94 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the BOURDONS_SAPC weather station, 5.9 km away at 304 m; the village itself is at 386 m. [11]

The village sits 82 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [11]

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

Humidity measured at BOURDONS_SAPC, 5.9 km away at 304 m, over 21 summers. [11]

That station sits 82 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,028 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at BIESLES, 5.2 km away at 387 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 — 52001/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52001/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52001/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52001/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52353
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52050
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52190
  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
Vernoux01182 km S29016.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 58 %
Bois-Guilbert76330 km NW28916.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 16 %
Dommiers02208 km NW28711.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Anvéville76381 km NW29116.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire-du-Bois17537 km SW29411.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 12 % · humidity 64 %
Orrouer28303 km W28215.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vernoux01182 km S29016.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 58 %
Dommiers02208 km NW28711.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Orrouer28303 km W28215.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Bois-Guilbert76330 km NW28916.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 16 %
Anvéville76381 km NW29116.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire-du-Bois17537 km SW29411.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 12 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Ageville'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
Broussey-Raulecourt5584 km N28315.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Lect39193 km S31912.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Vers-en-Montagne39150 km S23510.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Mont-lès-Neufchâteau8835 km NE26712.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Ambacourt8864 km NE30012.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Dambenoît-lès-Colombe7088 km SE27214.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %