Aouste

Ardennes · CC Ardennes Thiérache · INSEE 08016

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

No daily shops 12.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aouste (INSEE 08016) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC Ardennes Thiérache. Population 196 (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 12.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 15,841 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.47	10	4.66
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.05

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 1 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]

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

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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	AOUSTE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 292 2023: 196 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 203 (2012) → 196 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 203 (1990) → 196 (2023): -3.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 116, of which 9.5 % second homes and 15.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km WBakery — 3.8 km SEPharmacy — 3.8 km SEFood shop — 7.8 km NEGP — 9.0 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 (Liart): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Auvillers-les-Forges): 7.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Auvillers-les-Forges): 9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Liart): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Rumigny): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.7

Days at or below 0 °C 43.9

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 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SIGNY-LE-PETIT_SAPC weather station, 12.9 km away at 309 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[11]

The village sits 112 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

An average of 1,072 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LIART, 4.2 km away at 240 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 — 08016/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08016/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08016/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08016/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08037
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08373
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
Poinçon-lès-Larrey	21	213 km S	197	12.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 64 %
Chanceaux	21	255 km S	202	11.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 68 %
Villeneuve-au-Chemin	10	193 km S	189	13.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 69 %
Vaite	70	266 km SE	224	13.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 58 %
Dompierre-sur-Mont	39	373 km S	210	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 49 %
Vitry-le-Croisé	10	185 km S	223	9.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 77 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vitry-le-Croisé	10	185 km S	223	9.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 77 %
Villeneuve-au-Chemin	10	193 km S	189	13.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 69 %
Poinçon-lès-Larrey	21	213 km S	197	12.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 64 %
Chanceaux	21	255 km S	202	11.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 68 %
Vaite	70	266 km SE	224	13.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 58 %
Dompierre-sur-Mont	39	373 km S	210	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 49 %

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