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Chatel-Chéhéry

Ardennes · CC de l'Argonne Ardennaise · INSEE 08109

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

No daily shops 4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 1 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chatel-Chéhéry (INSEE 08109) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC de l'Argonne Ardennaise. Population 125 (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/08109-chatel-chehery

Vitality score

Vitality score 4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 1 % of the 12,568 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 trend0.15101.48
Housing mix0.3851.9

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Campsite. [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Campsite.

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]
Campsite1INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 279 2023: 125 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 156 (2012) → 125 (2023): -19.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 193 (1990) → 125 (2023): -35.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 126, of which 31 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.0 km N (Cornay)Food shop — 3.1 km SE (Apremont)Primary school — 8.5 km SE (Varennes-en-Argonne)GP — 8.7 km SE (Varennes-en-Argonne)Pharmacy — 8.7 km SE (Varennes-en-Argonne)
Bakery — 2.0 km NFood shop — 3.1 km SEPrimary school — 8.5 km SEGP — 8.7 km SEPharmacy — 8.7 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 (Cornay): 2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Apremont): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Varennes-en-Argonne): 8.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Varennes-en-Argonne): 8.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Varennes-en-Argonne): 8.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONTCHEUTIN_SAPC weather station, 10.5 km away at 142 m; the village itself is at 174 m. [11]

An average of 966 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at CHATEL-CHEHERY, 0.2 km away at 165 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08109/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08109/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08109/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08109/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08131
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08017
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 55527
  11. 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
Grisy-sur-Seine77152 km SW1236.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Cheignieu-la-Balme01387 km S13110.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 100 %
Roquessels34651 km S1197.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 85 %
Dissangis89201 km S11912.5No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 91 %
Sampigny-lès-Maranges71265 km S1316.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 100 %
Pierrefiques76344 km W12811.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 73 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Grisy-sur-Seine77152 km SW1236.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Dissangis89201 km S11912.5No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 91 %
Sampigny-lès-Maranges71265 km S1316.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 100 %
Pierrefiques76344 km W12811.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 73 %
Cheignieu-la-Balme01387 km S13110.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 100 %
Roquessels34651 km S1197.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 85 %

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