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Wiencourt-l'Équipée

Somme · CC Terre de Picardie · INSEE 80824

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

No daily shops 14.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Wiencourt-l'Équipée (INSEE 80824) is in Somme (80), part of CC Terre de Picardie. Population 249 (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/80824-wiencourt-l-equipee

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 17,194 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 trend0.75107.51
Housing mix0.9554.75

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: 238 peak 2017: 263 2023: 249 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 257 (2012) → 249 (2023): -3.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 199 (1990) → 249 (2023): 25.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 121, of which 2.5 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km W (Marcelcave)Bakery — 2.8 km W (Marcelcave)GP — 2.8 km W (Marcelcave)Pharmacy — 2.8 km W (Marcelcave)Food shop — 4.2 km E (Harbonnières)
Primary school — 2.7 km WBakery — 2.8 km WGP — 2.8 km WPharmacy — 2.8 km WFood shop — 4.2 km E 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 (Marcelcave): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Harbonnières): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Marcelcave): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Marcelcave): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Marcelcave): 2.7 km to the west (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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the HARBONNIERES weather station, 3.9 km away at 89 m; the village itself is at 91 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ROUVROY-EN-SANTERRE, 10.9 km away at 95 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 714 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at HARBONNIERES, 3.9 km away at 89 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80824/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80824/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80824/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80824/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80507
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 80417
  10. 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
Abbans-Dessous25386 km SE25017.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-Combarnazat63433 km S24813.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Ivors6077 km S25014.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 100 %
Cropus76106 km W24812.9No daily shopsno figures
Ottwiller67352 km E24611.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Castelvieilh65752 km S24913.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ivors6077 km S25014.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 100 %
Cropus76106 km W24812.9No daily shopsno figures
Ottwiller67352 km E24611.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Abbans-Dessous25386 km SE25017.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-Combarnazat63433 km S24813.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Castelvieilh65752 km S24913.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 62 % · 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 Wiencourt-l'Équipée'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
Choisy-la-Victoire6052 km S25211.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Levoncourt68430 km SE25014No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Pillon55220 km E25114.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Villembray6067 km SW24717.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Baizieux8018 km N24315.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Parcy-et-Tigny0282 km SE24511.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %