Montcornet

Ardennes · CC Vallées et Plateau d'Ardenne · INSEE 08297

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

Few services 30.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montcornet (INSEE 08297) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC Vallées et Plateau d'Ardenne. Population 300 (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/08297-montcornet

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 17,873 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	0.9	10	9.02
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 × Restaurant (LE CORNU). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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 [3,4]
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 CORNU	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	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: 230 peak 2012: 316 2023: 300 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 316 (2012) → 300 (2023): -5.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 214 (1990) → 300 (2023): 40.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 121, of which 4.1 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.8 km NWFood shop — 1.9 km WPharmacy — 1.9 km WBakery — 2.0 km W 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 (Renwez): 2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Renwez): 1.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Renwez): 1.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Renwez): 1.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Montcornet): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.1

Days at or below 0 °C 86.4

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 86 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHARLEVILLE-MEZ weather station, 5.4 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 255 m. ^[10]

The village sits 110 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 5.4 km away at 145 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 110 m below 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 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, 5.4 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 — 08297/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08297/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08297/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08297/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08361
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08297
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
Contay	80	155 km W	305	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Loudrefing	57	196 km SE	290	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Fallon	70	292 km SE	306	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Mignères	45	246 km SW	308	26.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
La Tranclière	01	416 km S	290	27.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Estrée	62	216 km W	304	27.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Contay	80	155 km W	305	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Loudrefing	57	196 km SE	290	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Estrée	62	216 km W	304	27.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Mignères	45	246 km SW	308	26.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Fallon	70	292 km SE	306	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
La Tranclière	01	416 km S	290	27.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Montcornet'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
Glay	25	317 km SE	339	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Souclin	01	444 km S	262	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Crésantignes	10	193 km S	307	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Illy	08	26 km SE	413	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Pulvérières	63	457 km S	419	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ville-en-Selve	51	88 km SW	296	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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