Saint-Étienne-à-Arnes

Ardennes · CC de l'Argonne Ardennaise · INSEE 08379

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

Few services 21.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Étienne-à-Arnes (INSEE 08379) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC de l'Argonne Ardennaise. Population 245 (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 21.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 17,145 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	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.37
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.83

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	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)	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	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: 237 2023: 245 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 242 (2012) → 245 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 198 (1990) → 245 (2023): 23.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 117, of which 1.7 % second homes and 15.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.9 km NGP — 4.9 km NFood shop — 5.0 km NBakery — 8.0 km SEPharmacy — 12.8 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 (Sommepy-Tahure): 8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Machault): 5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Machault): 4.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Juniville): 12.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Machault): 4.9 km to the north (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. ^[11]

Measured at the CAUROY weather station, 4.6 km away at 139 m; the village itself is at 121 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SAULCES-CHAMPENOISES, 12.6 km away at 147 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 759 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CAUROY, 4.6 km away at 139 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 — 08379/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08379/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08379/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08379/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51544
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08264
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08239
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
Billey	21	251 km S	245	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 95 %
Évrange	57	125 km E	246	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 88 %
Savigny-sur-Ardres	51	52 km W	248	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Palante	70	240 km SE	242	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Aubérive	51	13 km SW	241	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Roumens	31	679 km S	250	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 31 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aubérive	51	13 km SW	241	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Savigny-sur-Ardres	51	52 km W	248	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Évrange	57	125 km E	246	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 88 %
Palante	70	240 km SE	242	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Billey	21	251 km S	245	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 95 %
Roumens	31	679 km S	250	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 31 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Saint-Étienne-à-Arnes'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
Savigny-sur-Ardres	51	52 km W	248	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Aubérive	51	13 km SW	241	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Nouillonpont	55	83 km E	243	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chapelle-Vallon	10	103 km S	232	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Magny-Fouchard	10	119 km S	260	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Lachapelle	54	195 km SE	257	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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