Thin-le-Moutier

Ardennes · CC des Crêtes Préardennaises · INSEE 08449

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

Few services 39.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Thin-le-Moutier (INSEE 08449) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Crêtes Préardennaises. Population 702 (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/08449-thin-le-moutier

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 16,397 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.92	10	9.15
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.66

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU FOURNIL MOUSTERIEN). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL AUX SAVEURS DE THIN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (THIN LE MOUTIER RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU FOURNIL MOUSTERIEN	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL AUX SAVEURS DE THIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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	1	THIN LE MOUTIER RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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		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: 589 2023: 702 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 558 (2012) → 702 (2023): 25.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 496 (1990) → 702 (2023): 41.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 319, of which 3.4 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 6.4 km SWPharmacy — 6.4 km WBakery — 6.5 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 (Signy-l'Abbaye): 6.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Thin-le-Moutier): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Signy-l'Abbaye): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Signy-l'Abbaye): 6.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Thin-le-Moutier): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.7

Days at or below 0 °C 55.7

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LAUNOIS-SUR-VENCE_SAPC weather station, 5.7 km away at 218 m; the village itself is at 184 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 12.2 km away at 145 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 939 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LAUNOIS-SUR-VENCE_SAPC, 5.7 km away at 218 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 — 08449/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08449/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08449/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08449/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08419
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08449
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
Fresnoy-Folny	76	221 km W	683	35.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-en-Bresse	71	338 km S	825	36.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Commenailles	39	332 km S	898	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Montaut	09	759 km S	707	34	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	110 km W	620	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Boudou	82	679 km SW	757	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Metz-en-Couture	62	110 km W	620	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Fresnoy-Folny	76	221 km W	683	35.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Commenailles	39	332 km S	898	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Étienne-en-Bresse	71	338 km S	825	36.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Boudou	82	679 km SW	757	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Montaut	09	759 km S	707	34	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 57 % · 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 Thin-le-Moutier'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
Metz-en-Couture	62	110 km W	620	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Ouen-sur-Iton	61	297 km W	826	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vavincourt	55	112 km SE	534	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Montagny-en-Vexin	60	204 km W	672	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Luchy	60	173 km W	682	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Le Gault-Saint-Denis	28	275 km SW	666	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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