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Arguel

Somme · CC Somme Sud-Ouest · INSEE 80026

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

No daily shops 8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arguel (INSEE 80026) is in Somme (80), part of CC Somme Sud-Ouest. Population 31 (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/80026-arguel

Vitality score

Vitality score 8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 2,158 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 & culture050
Population trend0.5105
Housing mix0.3751.84

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

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, Library. [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]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [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 [3,4]
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: 54 2023: 31 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 29 (2012) → 31 (2023): 6.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 31 (1990) → 31 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 19, of which 31.6 % second homes and 0 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 1.4 km SE (Liomer)Primary school — 2.9 km SW (Beaucamps-le-Vieux)Pharmacy — 2.9 km SW (Beaucamps-le-Vieux)Food shop — 3.1 km SW (Beaucamps-le-Vieux)Bakery — 6.2 km NW (Senarpont)
GP — 1.4 km SEPrimary school — 2.9 km SWPharmacy — 2.9 km SWFood shop — 3.1 km SWBakery — 6.2 km NW 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 (Senarpont): 6.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Beaucamps-le-Vieux): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Liomer): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Beaucamps-le-Vieux): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Beaucamps-le-Vieux): 2.9 km to the south-west (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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the OISEMONT_SAPC weather station, 10.3 km away at 121 m; the village itself is at 152 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at OISEMONT_SAPC, 10.3 km away at 121 m, over 13 summers. [11]

An average of 769 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at AUMONT, 9.5 km away at 119 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80026/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80026/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80026/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80026/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80732
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80062
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80484
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sébeville50229 km W348.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Othe54265 km E3714.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Aigremont52352 km SE2311No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %
Menades89308 km SE363.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Le Claon55243 km E463.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Sère-Lanso65768 km S371.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sébeville50229 km W348.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Le Claon55243 km E463.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Othe54265 km E3714.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Menades89308 km SE363.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Aigremont52352 km SE2311No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %
Sère-Lanso65768 km S371.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · 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 Arguel'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
Othe54265 km E3714.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Villecourt8084 km E469.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Hesbécourt8096 km E454.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Breuil8084 km E456No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Le Ménil-Vicomte61165 km SW294.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lignères61166 km SW324.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %