Fagnon

Ardennes · CA Ardenne Métropole · INSEE 08162

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

Few services 26.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fagnon (INSEE 08162) is in Ardennes (08), part of CA Ardenne Métropole. Population 339 (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/08162-fagnon

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 18,048 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.51	10	5.15
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR TABAC CHEZ DEDE). ^[4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	BAR TABAC CHEZ DEDE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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: 189 peak 2007: 358 2023: 339 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 335 (2012) → 339 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 334 (1990) → 339 (2023): 1.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 163, of which 3.7 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.4 km NEFood shop — 4.4 km NEGP — 4.9 km NEPharmacy — 4.9 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 (Prix-lès-Mézières): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Prix-lès-Mézières): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Prix-lès-Mézières): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Prix-lès-Mézières): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Fagnon): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.1

Days at or below 0 °C 77

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHARLEVILLE-MEZ weather station, 5.3 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 172 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 5.3 km away at 145 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 938 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 5.3 km away at 145 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 — 08162/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08162/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08162/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08162/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08346
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08162
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
Lieudieu	38	477 km S	345	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan	47	681 km SW	341	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 28 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Léger-de-Balson	33	705 km SW	328	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %
Aibes	59	68 km NW	350	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Aubiac	33	692 km SW	317	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Tousson	77	222 km SW	334	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aibes	59	68 km NW	350	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Tousson	77	222 km SW	334	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Lieudieu	38	477 km S	345	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan	47	681 km SW	341	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 28 % · humidity 50 %
Aubiac	33	692 km SW	317	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Léger-de-Balson	33	705 km SW	328	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Fagnon'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
Aurières	63	469 km S	373	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Affoux	69	433 km S	398	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Écueil	51	79 km SW	358	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Watigny	02	37 km NW	350	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ham-les-Moines	08	7.2 km NW	356	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Neuveville-sous-Châtenois	88	184 km SE	363	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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