Machault

Ardennes · CC de l'Argonne Ardennaise · INSEE 08264

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

Few services 34.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Machault (INSEE 08264) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC de l'Argonne Ardennaise. Population 482 (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/08264-machault

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 17,875 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	0.43	10	4.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.55	10	5.5
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

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 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MINIMA). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLI GUILLAUME DE MACHAU). ^[4]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ANNE-SOPHIE DUMONT, MÉDECIN · ALAIN DUMONT, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MACHAULT TEAM AUTO RP). ^[4]

1 × Library (POINT-LECTURE MUNICIPAL MACHAULT). ^[4]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MINIMA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLI GUILLAUME DE MACHAU	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	ANNE-SOPHIE DUMONT, MÉDECIN · ALAIN DUMONT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	MACHAULT TEAM AUTO RP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	POINT-LECTURE MUNICIPAL MACHAULT	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 551 2023: 482 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 503 (2012) → 482 (2023): -4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 459 (1990) → 482 (2023): 5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 248, of which 3.6 % second homes and 12.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 9.5 km NWPharmacy — 9.9 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 (Juniville): 9.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Machault): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Machault): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Juniville): 9.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Machault): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.1

Days at or below 0 °C 65.8

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 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CAUROY weather station, 2.6 km away at 139 m; the village itself is at 139 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at SAULCES-CHAMPENOISES, 7.7 km away at 147 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 759 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CAUROY, 2.6 km away at 139 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 — 08264/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08264/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08264/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08264/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08239
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08264
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
Beaulieu-sur-Oudon	53	430 km W	483	31.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Soulaines-Dhuys	10	110 km S	420	37.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson	51	82 km S	470	38	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Gornac	33	631 km SW	441	38.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Bruch	47	652 km SW	688	33.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 8 % · winter 65 % · humidity 36 %
Morizès	33	632 km SW	527	31.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 46 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson	51	82 km S	470	38	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Soulaines-Dhuys	10	110 km S	420	37.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Beaulieu-sur-Oudon	53	430 km W	483	31.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Gornac	33	631 km SW	441	38.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Morizès	33	632 km SW	527	31.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 46 % · humidity 50 %
Bruch	47	652 km SW	688	33.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 8 % · winter 65 % · 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 Machault'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
Échouboulains	77	151 km SW	555	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Villequiers	18	284 km SW	437	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Plomion	02	61 km NW	432	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lacanche	21	254 km S	476	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Is-en-Bassigny	52	163 km SE	530	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Landouzy-la-Ville	02	65 km NW	503	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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