Sery

Ardennes · CC des Crêtes Préardennaises · INSEE 08415

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sery (INSEE 08415) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Crêtes Préardennaises. Population 315 (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 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 17,949 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	0.68	10	6.75
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (LA TAVERNE). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (VANESS COIFF & CO). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LA TAVERNE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	VANESS COIFF & CO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 402 2023: 315 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 342 (2012) → 315 (2023): -7.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 268 (1990) → 315 (2023): 17.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 195, of which 6.7 % second homes and 15.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.3 km SPrimary school — 5.4 km NFood shop — 6.9 km SGP — 7.0 km SPharmacy — 8.0 km S 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 (Arnicourt): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rethel): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rethel): 7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Rethel): 8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Wasigny): 5.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.7

Days at or below 0 °C 68.1

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the RETHEL - MAN weather station, 9 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 124 m. ^[11]

The village sits 53 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. ^[11]

An average of 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at RETHEL - MAN, 9 km away at 71 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 — 08415/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08415/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08415/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08415/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08021
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08362
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08499
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
Le Mung	17	560 km SW	317	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 73 %
Nogna	39	345 km S	308	24.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Liercourt	80	183 km W	327	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 46 %
Garris	64	808 km SW	320	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 47 %
Saint-Jean-de-Bassel	57	211 km SE	322	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 91 %
Croizet-sur-Gand	42	408 km S	320	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 81 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Liercourt	80	183 km W	327	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 46 %
Saint-Jean-de-Bassel	57	211 km SE	322	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 91 %
Nogna	39	345 km S	308	24.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Croizet-sur-Gand	42	408 km S	320	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 81 %
Le Mung	17	560 km SW	317	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 73 %
Garris	64	808 km SW	320	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 47 %

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