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Buire-sur-l'Ancre

Somme · CC du Pays du Coquelicot · INSEE 80151

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

No daily shops 18.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Buire-sur-l'Ancre (INSEE 80151) is in Somme (80), part of CC du Pays du Coquelicot. Population 294 (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/80151-buire-sur-l-ancre

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,792 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
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.47104.67
Housing mix0.9454.72

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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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)1ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [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: 301 peak 2007: 330 2023: 294 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 313 (2012) → 294 (2023): -6.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 304 (1990) → 294 (2023): -3.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 145, of which 2.8 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 0.9 km S (Treux)GP — 4.7 km E (Méaulte)Bakery — 5.0 km E (Méaulte)Pharmacy — 5.2 km NE (Albert)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.9 km SGP — 4.7 km EBakery — 5.0 km EPharmacy — 5.2 km NE 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 (Méaulte): 5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Treux): 0.9 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Méaulte): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Albert): 5.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Buire-sur-l'Ancre): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the MEAULTE weather station, 8 km away at 107 m; the village itself is at 42 m. [12]

The village sits 65 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at MEAULTE, 8 km away at 107 m, over 28 summers. [12]

That station sits 65 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 799 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at ALBERT, 5.2 km away at 54 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

What property sold for

8 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 119,320 € — 952 € per m² of built surface. [13]

The median across Somme is 1,471 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [13]

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 — 80151/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80151/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80151/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80151/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80523
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80769
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80016
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80151
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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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
Valescourt6055 km S29519.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Recologne-lès-Rioz70373 km SE28824.8Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Agnan81700 km S30424.7Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
La Neuville-sur-Oudeuil6061 km SW30120.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Virming57321 km E29718.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Leubringhen62117 km NW29323.5Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Valescourt6055 km S29519.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
La Neuville-sur-Oudeuil6061 km SW30120.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Leubringhen62117 km NW29323.5Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Virming57321 km E29718.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Recologne-lès-Rioz70373 km SE28824.8Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Agnan81700 km S30424.7Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Buire-sur-l'Ancre'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
Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger76119 km W28224.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Baugy6057 km S28621.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bihucourt6223 km NE28618.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Blairville6230 km N30420.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Monchy-Cayeux6257 km NW28518.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Champien8036 km SE27220Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %