Écordal

Ardennes · CC des Crêtes Préardennaises · INSEE 08151

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

Few services 28/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Écordal (INSEE 08151) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Crêtes Préardennaises. Population 283 (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/08151-ecordal

Vitality score

Vitality score 28/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 17,659 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.82	10	8.22
Housing mix	0.8	5	4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 325 2023: 283 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 295 (2012) → 283 (2023): -4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 214 (1990) → 283 (2023): 32.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 160, of which 10 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 5.0 km SFood shop — 5.4 km SPharmacy — 5.4 km S 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 (Écordal): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Attigny): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Attigny): 5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Attigny): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Écordal): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.6

Days at or below 0 °C 65.1

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ATTIGNY weather station, 5.8 km away at 81 m; the village itself is at 104 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at SAULCES-CHAMPENOISES, 13.2 km away at 147 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 843 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ATTIGNY, 5.8 km away at 81 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 — 08151/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08151/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08151/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08151/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08151
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08025
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
Dennevy	71	296 km S	296	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Cerneux	77	129 km SW	272	25.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Hommert	57	211 km SE	305	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Charcenne	70	255 km S	295	25.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Puynormand	33	612 km SW	305	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Bouvelinghem	62	226 km NW	260	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cerneux	77	129 km SW	272	25.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Hommert	57	211 km SE	305	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Bouvelinghem	62	226 km NW	260	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Charcenne	70	255 km S	295	25.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Dennevy	71	296 km S	296	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Puynormand	33	612 km SW	305	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Écordal'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
Bettwiller	67	202 km E	299	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Marnoz	39	301 km S	365	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire-la-Plaine	23	425 km SW	209	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Valfroicourt	88	185 km SE	228	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Volksberg	67	208 km E	353	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Moulins-sur-Ouanne	89	222 km SW	272	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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