Launois-sur-Vence

Ardennes · CC des Crêtes Préardennaises · INSEE 08248

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

Few services 36.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Launois-sur-Vence (INSEE 08248) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Crêtes Préardennaises. Population 659 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 36.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 16,687 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.64	10	6.4
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.97

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (ARDWEN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LAUNOIS SUR VENCE AP). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (LE VAL DE VENCE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	1	ARDWEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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	1	LAUNOIS SUR VENCE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LE VAL DE VENCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 560 peak 2017: 699 2023: 659 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 673 (2012) → 659 (2023): -2.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 578 (1990) → 659 (2023): 14 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 309, of which 0.3 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 5.4 km SPharmacy — 7.4 km EGP — 7.5 km E 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 (Launois-sur-Vence): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Poix-Terron): 7.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Poix-Terron): 7.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Launois-sur-Vence): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.7

Days at or below 0 °C 55.7

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LAUNOIS-SUR-VENCE_SAPC weather station, 2 km away at 218 m; the village itself is at 205 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 16.2 km away at 145 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 60 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 939 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LAUNOIS-SUR-VENCE_SAPC, 2 km away at 218 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08248/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08248/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08248/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08248/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08248
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08341
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
Carlus	81	667 km S	664	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Sommepy-Tahure	51	45 km S	663	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Fontaine	90	286 km SE	605	42	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Albefeuille-Lagarde	82	669 km SW	582	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Vy-lès-Lure	70	264 km SE	704	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Rieucros	09	761 km S	718	45.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 55 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sommepy-Tahure	51	45 km S	663	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Vy-lès-Lure	70	264 km SE	704	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Fontaine	90	286 km SE	605	42	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Carlus	81	667 km S	664	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Albefeuille-Lagarde	82	669 km SW	582	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Rieucros	09	761 km S	718	45.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 55 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Launois-sur-Vence'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
Alexain	53	419 km W	610	39.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Écouviez	55	68 km E	543	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Cons-la-Grandville	54	86 km E	522	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
L'Épine	51	75 km S	685	33.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Quittebeuf	27	263 km W	656	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montceaux-lès-Meaux	77	138 km SW	669	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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