Biesles

Haute-Marne · CA de Chaumont · INSEE 52050

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

Few services 37.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Biesles (INSEE 52050) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CA de Chaumont. Population 1,342 (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/52050-biesles

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 12,416 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	0.46	10	4.61
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA FINE BOUCHE). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (TURKER · L'HISTRION). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE BIESLES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BIESLES RP). ^[3]

2 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU PUITS-DES-MÈZES · MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LA FINE BOUCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	3	TURKER · L'HISTRION	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE BIESLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BIESLES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	2	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU PUITS-DES-MÈZES · MÉDIATHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 1,262 peak 1999: 1,426 2023: 1,342 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,383 (2012) → 1,342 (2023): -3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,396 (1990) → 1,342 (2023): -3.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 714, of which 4.8 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy Bakery — 6.7 km SEGP — 7.1 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 (Nogent): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Biesles): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Nogent): 7.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Biesles): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Biesles): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.6

Days at or below 0 °C 94.3▸

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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. ^[10]

Measured at the BOURDONS_SAPC weather station, 9.4 km away at 304 m; the village itself is at 387 m. ^[10]

The village sits 83 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at BOURDONS_SAPC, 9.4 km away at 304 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 83 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 1,028 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BIESLES, 0.1 km away at 387 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 — 52050/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52050/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52050/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52050/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 52353
INSEE BPE 2025 — 52050
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
Saint-Germain	70	101 km SE	1,377	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Vineuil	36	305 km SW	1,241	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire	30	436 km S	1,312	35.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 12 % · humidity 50 %
Dourgne	81	567 km SW	1,313	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 15 % · humidity 29 %
Gron	89	151 km W	1,288	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-les-Deux-Jumeaux	77	193 km NW	1,298	38.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Germain	70	101 km SE	1,377	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Gron	89	151 km W	1,288	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-les-Deux-Jumeaux	77	193 km NW	1,298	38.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Vineuil	36	305 km SW	1,241	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire	30	436 km S	1,312	35.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 12 % · humidity 50 %
Dourgne	81	567 km SW	1,313	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 15 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Biesles'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
Rougemont-le-Château	90	131 km E	1,487	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Martigny-les-Bains	88	39 km E	807	37.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-du-Frêne	01	217 km S	1,023	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Avoudrey	25	136 km SE	982	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Montrottier	69	263 km S	1,400	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Goetzenbruck	57	183 km NE	1,484	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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