Laifour

Ardennes · CC Vallées et Plateau d'Ardenne · INSEE 08242

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

No daily shops 16/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 20 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Laifour (INSEE 08242) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC Vallées et Plateau d'Ardenne. Population 399 (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/08242-laifour

Vitality score

Vitality score 16/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 20 % of the 18,000 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.18	10	1.83
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.85

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 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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. ^[4]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	1		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	1	LAIFOUR AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 768 2023: 399 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 498 (2012) → 399 (2023): -19.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 584 (1990) → 399 (2023): -31.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 270, of which 11.5 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.5 km NWFood shop — 3.7 km SPharmacy — 3.7 km SBakery — 3.9 km NWGP — 4.5 km NW 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 (Revin): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Deville): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Revin): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Deville): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Revin): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.5

Days at or below 0 °C 62.7

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 63 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the REVIN weather station, 5.3 km away at 130 m; the village itself is at 136 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ROCROI, 11.7 km away at 382 m, over 26 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 246 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,121 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at REVIN, 5.3 km away at 130 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

29 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 80,000 € — 873 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Ardennes is 1,100 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08242/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08242/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08242/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08242/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08363
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08139
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Nolléval	76	236 km W	417	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 47 %
Thervay	39	304 km S	384	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Julia	31	745 km S	418	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 42 % · humidity 71 %
René	72	373 km SW	387	22	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
Saint-Georges-du-Rosay	72	360 km SW	452	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
La Celle-Guenand	37	433 km SW	379	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Nolléval	76	236 km W	417	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 47 %
Thervay	39	304 km S	384	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Georges-du-Rosay	72	360 km SW	452	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
René	72	373 km SW	387	22	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
La Celle-Guenand	37	433 km SW	379	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Julia	31	745 km S	418	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 42 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Laifour'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
Saint-Georges-du-Rosay	72	360 km SW	452	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Éteignières	08	22 km W	465	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Maizy	02	91 km SW	392	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Mangiennes	55	86 km SE	397	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bellechaume	89	223 km S	436	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vauchamps	51	139 km SW	338	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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