Plainval

Oise · CC du Plateau Picard · INSEE 60495

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Plainval (INSEE 60495) is in Oise (60), part of CC du Plateau Picard. Population 422 (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/60495-plainval

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 17,974 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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

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). ^[3]

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 287 2023: 422 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 388 (2012) → 422 (2023): 8.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 278 (1990) → 422 (2023): 51.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 183, of which 2.2 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.8 km SWFood shop — 1.9 km SPharmacy — 2.0 km SBakery — 2.6 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 (Saint-Just-en-Chaussée): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Just-en-Chaussée): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Just-en-Chaussée): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Just-en-Chaussée): 2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Plainval): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.6

Days at or below 0 °C 53.1

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the GODENVILLERS weather station, 10.3 km away at 92 m; the village itself is at 99 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at AIRION, 11 km away at 71 m, over 16 summers. ^[10]

An average of 742 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MESNIL-SUR-BULLES, 8.5 km away at 146 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 — 60495/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60495/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60495/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60495/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60581
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60495
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
Béthancourt-en-Vaux	02	52 km E	421	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bibiche	57	293 km E	425	21.7	Few services	no figures
Luquet	65	724 km S	426	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 57 %
Houville-la-Branche	28	134 km SW	420	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Broxeele	59	145 km N	425	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Saint-Christophe	02	55 km NE	418	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Béthancourt-en-Vaux	02	52 km E	421	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Saint-Christophe	02	55 km NE	418	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Houville-la-Branche	28	134 km SW	420	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Broxeele	59	145 km N	425	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Bibiche	57	293 km E	425	21.7	Few services	no figures
Luquet	65	724 km S	426	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · 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 Plainval'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
Béthancourt-en-Vaux	02	52 km E	421	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Houville-la-Branche	28	134 km SW	420	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Dangers	28	139 km SW	433	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Guebenhouse	57	330 km E	417	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Quierzy	02	51 km E	428	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Hargeville	78	87 km SW	418	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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