Lucquy

Ardennes · CC des Crêtes Préardennaises · INSEE 08262

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

Partly served 45.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lucquy (INSEE 08262) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Crêtes Préardennaises. Population 584 (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/08262-lucquy

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 17,244 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	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.78	10	7.84
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE VAL DE VENCE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN CHARLES SERVAIS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE PASTEUR). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (COSEC). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (GEORGES MARIE LAURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	LE VAL DE VENCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LOUIS PASTEUR	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEAN CHARLES SERVAIS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE PASTEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LUCQUY AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COSEC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	GEORGES MARIE LAURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 631 2023: 584 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 613 (2012) → 584 (2023): -4.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 455 (1990) → 584 (2023): 28.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 302, of which 2 % second homes and 11.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 1.5 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 (Lucquy): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Amagne): 1.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lucquy): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lucquy): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.4

Days at or below 0 °C 64.8

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the RETHEL - MAN weather station, 8.5 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 80 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at SAULCES-CHAMPENOISES, 11.4 km away at 147 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 67 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 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at RETHEL - MAN, 8.5 km away at 71 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 — 08262/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08262/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08262/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08262/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08262
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08008
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
Moissey	39	270 km S	567	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Encausse-les-Thermes	31	775 km SW	641	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Marly-Gomont	02	65 km NW	483	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Quittebeuf	27	256 km W	656	45.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Pagney	39	269 km S	392	49.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 81 %
Habarcq	62	159 km NW	676	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marly-Gomont	02	65 km NW	483	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Habarcq	62	159 km NW	676	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Quittebeuf	27	256 km W	656	45.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Pagney	39	269 km S	392	49.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 81 %
Moissey	39	270 km S	567	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Encausse-les-Thermes	31	775 km SW	641	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · 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 Lucquy'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
Hunspach	67	260 km E	628	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Margut	08	57 km E	700	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Noroy-le-Bourg	70	252 km SE	506	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Recologne	25	270 km S	730	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Azerailles	54	199 km SE	786	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Épeugney	25	291 km SE	590	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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