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Montdidier

Somme · CC du Grand Roye · INSEE 80561

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Served 60.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montdidier (INSEE 80561) is in Somme (80), part of CC du Grand Roye. Population 5,935 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). [2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/80561-montdidier

Vitality score

Vitality score 60.5/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 3,993 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 food0.442510.95
Social0.882017.53
Education0.53105.28
Health0.72107.23
Public & culture0.2251.11
Population trend0.45104.48
Housing mix0.9654.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 3 of 3
Health 2 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 2 of 2
Sport 1 of 2
Everyday services 3 of 3
Lodging 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE JOSSE · LA CROUSTILLANTE). [3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (MONTDI-FRAICHEUR · AUX DELICES DE PARMENTIER). [3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (NATYOU · SARL GARDIN). [3,4]

2 × Supermarket (ALDI MARCHE · SODIDIER EXPLOITATION). [3,4]

15 × Restaurant (NEWPORT · LE VERGER · SARL EGEE · LE KIOSQUE A PIZZAS · LE VIP). [3,4]

6 × Café / bar (LE MARMARA · LA GRANDE CIVETTE). [4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE · EC MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE MOULIN CARDENIER). [3]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LE PRIEURE · ECOL PRIM DE LA CITE DU NORD · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE THERESE). [3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE PARMENTIER · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINT VINCENT). [3]

10 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BRUNO DESCHAMPS, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE CARTON, MÉDECIN · OPHELIE COURTOIS, MÉDECIN · ASSAAD ASSAKER, MÉDECIN · ALAIN BOURGEOIS, MÉDECIN). [3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE CLEMENT CHASSANG · PHARMACIE FAUQUET · PHARMACIE DESESQUELLES). [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). [3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE MONTDIDIER). [3]

1 × Cinema (HOLLYWOOD AVENUE). [3]

3 × Gym / sports hall (CENTRE DU CCE SNCF LES 3 DOMS · ESPACE PASTEUR · COMPLEXE CARDENIER). [3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE HAUTS DE FRANCE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL BRIE PICARDIE · MONTDIDIER PARMENTIER). [3]

11 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE FLORENCE · BULLE D'HAIR · LILI' COIFFURE). [3,4]

3 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). [3]

1 × Hotel (LE RENAISSANCE). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Supermarket, 7 × Restaurant, 1 × Bank, 4 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)3BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE JOSSE · LA CROUSTILLANTEINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)2MONTDI-FRAICHEUR · AUX DELICES DE PARMENTIERINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)2NATYOU · SARL GARDININSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket2ALDI MARCHE · SODIDIER EXPLOITATIONINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant15NEWPORT · LE VERGER · SARL EGEE · LE KIOSQUE A PIZZAS · LE VIPINSEE BPE 15 / INSEE SIRENE 27 [3,4]
Café / bar6LE MARMARA · LA GRANDE CIVETTEINSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)2ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE · EC MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE MOULIN CARDENIERINSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)3ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LE PRIEURE · ECOL PRIM DE LA CITE DU NORD · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE THERESEINSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège2COLLEGE PARMENTIER · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINT VINCENTINSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)10BRUNO DESCHAMPS, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE CARTON, MÉDECIN · OPHELIE COURTOIS, MÉDECIN · ASSAAD ASSAKER, MÉDECIN · ALAIN BOURGEOIS, MÉDECININSEE BPE 10 [3]
Pharmacy3PHARMACIE CLEMENT CHASSANG · PHARMACIE FAUQUET · PHARMACIE DESESQUELLESINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1LA POSTEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE MONTDIDIERINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema1HOLLYWOOD AVENUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall3CENTRE DU CCE SNCF LES 3 DOMS · ESPACE PASTEUR · COMPLEXE CARDENIERINSEE BPE 3 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank3CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE HAUTS DE FRANCE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL BRIE PICARDIE · MONTDIDIER PARMENTIERINSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser11COIFFURE FLORENCE · BULLE D'HAIR · LILI' COIFFUREINSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 18 [3,4]
Fuel station3STATION SERVICEINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel1LE RENAISSANCEINSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 5,828 peak 1999: 6,328 2023: 5,935 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 6,174 (2012) → 5,935 (2023): -3.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 6,262 (1990) → 5,935 (2023): -5.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,224, of which 1.8 % second homes and 11.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 km
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Montdidier): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Montdidier): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Montdidier): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Montdidier): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Montdidier): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the ROUVROY-EN-SANTERRE weather station, 16.2 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 86 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at ROUVROY-EN-SANTERRE, 16.2 km away at 95 m, over 30 summers. [9]

An average of 690 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at GRIVESNES, 8.1 km away at 110 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80561/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80561/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80561/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80561/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80561
  9. 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
Fontenay-Trésigny77107 km S5,99462.2ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Corbie8029 km N5,98257.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Vergèze30669 km S5,78858.1Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %
Donzère26601 km S6,00856.5Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Magny-en-Vexin9579 km SW5,77962.5ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Doullens8059 km N5,75162.6ServedSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Corbie8029 km N5,98257.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Doullens8059 km N5,75162.6ServedSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Magny-en-Vexin9579 km SW5,77962.5ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Fontenay-Trésigny77107 km S5,99462.2ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Donzère26601 km S6,00856.5Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Vergèze30669 km S5,78858.1Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · 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 Montdidier'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
Fontenay-Trésigny77107 km S5,99462.2ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Corbie8029 km N5,98257.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Magny-en-Vexin9579 km SW5,77962.5ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Le Perray-en-Yvelines78118 km SW6,48053.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Montfort-sur-Meu35371 km SW6,81064.8ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-d'Uriage38557 km SE5,58766.6ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %