Brethenay

Haute-Marne · CA de Chaumont · INSEE 52072

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 19.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brethenay (INSEE 52072) is in Haute-Marne (52), part of CA de Chaumont. Population 399 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 19.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 18,000 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.56	10	5.56
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 159 2023: 399 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 366 (2012) → 399 (2023): 9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 378 (1990) → 399 (2023): 5.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 199, of which 2 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.6 km SWGP — 3.0 km SBakery — 3.4 km SFood shop — 3.4 km SPharmacy — 4.7 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 (Chaumont): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chaumont): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chaumont): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Chaumont): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Brethenay): 0.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.3

Days at or below 0 °C 64.3

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHAUMONT weather station, 5.7 km away at 317 m; the village itself is at 274 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHAUMONT, 5.7 km away at 317 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 907 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHAUMONT, 5.7 km away at 317 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 — 52072/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52072/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52072/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 52072/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 52121
INSEE BPE 2025 — 52072
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
Licourt	80	247 km NW	395	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Deuxville	54	110 km NE	400	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Escoire	24	463 km SW	401	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Alzing	57	162 km NE	405	19.2	No daily shops	no figures
Fixem	57	166 km NE	397	21.7	Few services	no figures
Ransart	62	290 km NW	407	20.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Deuxville	54	110 km NE	400	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Alzing	57	162 km NE	405	19.2	No daily shops	no figures
Fixem	57	166 km NE	397	21.7	Few services	no figures
Licourt	80	247 km NW	395	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Ransart	62	290 km NW	407	20.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Escoire	24	463 km SW	401	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Brethenay'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
Deuxville	54	110 km NE	400	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Presles-et-Thierny	02	187 km NW	401	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Barcy	77	192 km NW	387	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Villereau	45	234 km W	407	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Achy	60	279 km NW	408	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Obermorschwiller	68	172 km E	409	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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