Mézières-en-Santerre

Somme · CC Avre Luce Noye · INSEE 80545

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

Few services 30.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mézières-en-Santerre (INSEE 80545) is in Somme (80), part of CC Avre Luce Noye. Population 521 (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 30.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 17,689 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.65	10	6.5
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.7

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]

2 × Restaurant (GRIGNOT'PIZZA · TOUTTAIN DOUGLAS). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

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]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	GRIGNOT'PIZZA · TOUTTAIN DOUGLAS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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: 391 peak 2017: 589 2023: 521 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 536 (2012) → 521 (2023): -2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 453 (1990) → 521 (2023): 15 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 237, of which 3 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.8 km SEGP — 5.0 km SEPharmacy — 5.1 km SEBakery — 5.4 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 (Moreuil): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hangest-en-Santerre): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Hangest-en-Santerre): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Hangest-en-Santerre): 5.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mézières-en-Santerre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.3

Days at or below 0 °C 46.2

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ROUVROY-EN-SANTERRE weather station, 10.6 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 94 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ROUVROY-EN-SANTERRE, 10.6 km away at 95 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 709 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE-PLESSIER-ROZAINVILLERS, 3.7 km away at 105 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80545/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80545/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80545/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80545/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 80570
INSEE BPE 2025 — 80415
INSEE BPE 2025 — 80545
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
Nonant	14	239 km W	520	33	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Campugnan	33	564 km SW	516	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %
Rezonville-Vionville	57	260 km E	517	29.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Bricy	45	207 km S	528	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ponsas	26	542 km S	523	28.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Le Vignau	40	702 km S	522	30.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 93 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bricy	45	207 km S	528	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Nonant	14	239 km W	520	33	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Rezonville-Vionville	57	260 km E	517	29.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Ponsas	26	542 km S	523	28.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Campugnan	33	564 km SW	516	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %
Le Vignau	40	702 km S	522	30.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 93 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Mézières-en-Santerre'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
Nogent-sur-Eure	28	178 km SW	510	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bouzincourt	80	27 km N	528	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Ecquedecques	62	86 km N	511	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Fonsomme	02	62 km E	518	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Essuiles	60	40 km SW	505	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Geoirs	38	539 km SE	498	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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