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Hodenc-en-Bray

Oise · CC du Pays de Bray · INSEE 60315

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

No daily shops 16.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hodenc-en-Bray (INSEE 60315) is in Oise (60), part of CC du Pays de Bray. Population 478 (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/60315-hodenc-en-bray

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 15 % of the 17,863 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 & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.75107.51
Housing mix0.9354.67

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 1 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]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÉQUE MUNICIPALE DE HODENC EN BRAY). [3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

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. [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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]
Library1BIBLIOTHÉQUE MUNICIPALE DE HODENC EN BRAYINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 310 peak 2017: 490 2023: 478 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 489 (2012) → 478 (2023): -2.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 382 (1990) → 478 (2023): 25.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 214, of which 3.3 % second homes and 3.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.1 km S (Lachapelle-aux-Pots)Primary school — 2.2 km S (Lachapelle-aux-Pots)GP — 2.2 km S (Lachapelle-aux-Pots)Pharmacy — 2.5 km S (Lachapelle-aux-Pots)Bakery — 2.8 km W (Blacourt)
Food shop — 2.1 km SPrimary school — 2.2 km SGP — 2.2 km SPharmacy — 2.5 km SBakery — 2.8 km W 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 (Blacourt): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lachapelle-aux-Pots): 2.1 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Lachapelle-aux-Pots): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Lachapelle-aux-Pots): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Lachapelle-aux-Pots): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). [9]

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the SONGEONS weather station, 9.2 km away at 113 m; the village itself is at 131 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at BEAUVAIS-TILLE, 16.7 km away at 89 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 908 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LALANDELLE, 8.5 km away at 230 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

31 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 190,000 € — 1,600 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Oise is 2,073 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60315/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60315/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60315/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60315/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 60073
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 60333
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Frizon88352 km E48514.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-sur-Vanne10193 km SE47518.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Soulaires28108 km S47114No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Colombe25433 km SE48819.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Orgeux21335 km SE46619.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Soulanges51206 km E45311.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Soulaires28108 km S47114No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-sur-Vanne10193 km SE47518.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Soulanges51206 km E45311.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Orgeux21335 km SE46619.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Frizon88352 km E48514.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Colombe25433 km SE48819.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · 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 Hodenc-en-Bray'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
Ruesnes59149 km NE44811.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Agincourt54326 km E42413.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Dommartin-aux-Bois88352 km SE41115No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Pomacle51163 km E54019.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Azelot54331 km E41115.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Marchais02139 km E38914.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %