Blanchefosse-et-Bay

Ardennes · CC Ardennes Thiérache · INSEE 08069

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

No daily shops 11.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blanchefosse-et-Bay (INSEE 08069) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC Ardennes Thiérache. Population 133 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 11.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 13,086 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.22	10	2.23
Housing mix	0.31	5	1.54

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LA FORGE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

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	1	LA FORGE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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: 334 2023: 133 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 158 (2012) → 133 (2023): -15.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 184 (1990) → 133 (2023): -27.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 127, of which 34.6 % second homes and 12.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 4.0 km WPrimary school — 4.0 km WFood shop — 4.1 km WGP — 4.1 km WPharmacy — 4.1 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 (Brunehamel): 4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Brunehamel): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Brunehamel): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Brunehamel): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Brunehamel): 4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.7

Days at or below 0 °C 54.9

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the SIGNY-LE-PETIT_SAPC weather station, 15.7 km away at 309 m; the village itself is at 267 m. ^[9]

An average of 1,072 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LIART, 7.8 km away at 240 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08069/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08069/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08069/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08069/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 02126
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
Vezels-Roussy	15	566 km S	132	16	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 68 %
Ponches-Estruval	80	177 km W	127	15.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 81 %
Chadenet	48	587 km S	123	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 51 %
Trémouille-Saint-Loup	63	493 km S	140	13.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Champillet	36	392 km SW	136	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 84 %
Trégarvan	29	640 km W	134	13.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 58 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ponches-Estruval	80	177 km W	127	15.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 81 %
Champillet	36	392 km SW	136	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 84 %
Trémouille-Saint-Loup	63	493 km S	140	13.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Vezels-Roussy	15	566 km S	132	16	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 68 %
Chadenet	48	587 km S	123	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 51 %
Trégarvan	29	640 km W	134	13.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 58 %

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