Chars

Val-d'Oise · CC Vexin Centre · INSEE 95142

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

Partly served 44.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chars (INSEE 95142) is in Val-d'Oise (95), part of CC Vexin Centre. Population 2,006 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/95142-chars

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 9,615 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.82	10	8.21
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (OKEBAB). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE LES TOURNESOLS). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQ. LES TOURNESOLS). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE DE CHARS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHARS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL DU VEXIN). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (TIZELIE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
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	OKEBAB	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LES TOURNESOLS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQ. LES TOURNESOLS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL PHARMACIE DE CHARS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	CHARS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL DU VEXIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	TIZELIE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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: 1,266 peak 2017: 2,110 2023: 2,006 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,935 (2012) → 2,006 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,519 (1990) → 2,006 (2023): 32.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 877, of which 2.3 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 3.1 km SE 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 (Chars): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chars): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Marines): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Chars): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Chars): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.5

Days at or below 0 °C 35.4

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the HARAVILLIERS weather station, 8.2 km away at 143 m; the village itself is at 65 m. ^[10]

The village sits 78 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at WY-DIT, 9.7 km away at 126 m, over 22 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 61 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 697 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE PERCHAY, 5.4 km away at 98 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 95142/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 95142/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 95142/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 95142/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 95142
INSEE BPE 2025 — 95370
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
Attichy	60	85 km E	1,857	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Chailly-en-Bière	77	92 km SE	2,162	54.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Courçon	17	384 km SW	2,091	55.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Vinassan	11	668 km S	2,662	54.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 68 % · humidity 0 %
La Ménitré	49	255 km SW	2,079	50.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Martigné-sur-Mayenne	53	219 km SW	1,902	48.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Attichy	60	85 km E	1,857	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Chailly-en-Bière	77	92 km SE	2,162	54.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Martigné-sur-Mayenne	53	219 km SW	1,902	48.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
La Ménitré	49	255 km SW	2,079	50.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Courçon	17	384 km SW	2,091	55.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Vinassan	11	668 km S	2,662	54.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 68 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Chars'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
Attichy	60	85 km E	1,857	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Longueil-Sainte-Marie	60	61 km E	1,895	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Port-Brillet	53	243 km SW	1,827	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Julien-des-Landes	85	391 km SW	2,085	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Les Molières	91	55 km S	1,975	40.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Mametz	62	166 km N	1,973	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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