Sarcus

Oise · CC de la Picardie Verte · INSEE 60604

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

Few services 28.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sarcus (INSEE 60604) is in Oise (60), part of CC de la Picardie Verte. Population 262 (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 28.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 17,443 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.36
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.05

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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 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: 274 peak 2012: 278 2023: 262 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 278 (2012) → 262 (2023): -5.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 212 (1990) → 262 (2023): 23.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 137, of which 9.5 % second homes and 13.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.3 km SGP — 4.4 km SWFood shop — 4.5 km SWPharmacy — 6.5 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 (Brombos): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Feuquières): 4.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Feuquières): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Grandvilliers): 6.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sarcus): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.2

Days at or below 0 °C 45

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAINT-ARNOULT weather station, 8.8 km away at 206 m; the village itself is at 203 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at SAINT-ARNOULT, 8.8 km away at 206 m, over 24 summers. ^[12]

An average of 895 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at HAUTBOS, 6.7 km away at 186 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60604/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60604/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60604/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 60604/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60109
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60233
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60286
INSEE BPE 2025 — 60604
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
Le Landin	27	83 km W	254	31.4	Few services	no figures
Sarriac-Bigorre	65	713 km S	271	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 96 % · humidity 29 %
Villeneuve-Saint-Salves	89	242 km SE	256	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Souclin	01	500 km SE	262	29.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 49 % · humidity 93 %
Taillefontaine	02	95 km SE	257	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Émeringes	69	438 km SE	275	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Landin	27	83 km W	254	31.4	Few services	no figures
Taillefontaine	02	95 km SE	257	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-Saint-Salves	89	242 km SE	256	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Émeringes	69	438 km SE	275	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Souclin	01	500 km SE	262	29.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 49 % · humidity 93 %
Sarriac-Bigorre	65	713 km S	271	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 96 % · 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 Sarcus'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
Ohis	02	156 km E	269	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Éterpigny	62	102 km NE	252	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Sailly-au-Bois	62	71 km NE	285	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Burbach	67	390 km E	280	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gobert	02	141 km E	281	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Colombe-près-Vernon	27	76 km SW	312	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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