Vendresse

Ardennes · CC des Crêtes Préardennaises · INSEE 08469

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

Few services 27.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vendresse (INSEE 08469) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Crêtes Préardennaises. Population 486 (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/08469-vendresse

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 17,820 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.71	10	7.09
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.55

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 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]

2 × Restaurant. ^[4,3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VENDRESSE AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE VENDRESSE). ^[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. ^[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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	VENDRESSE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE VENDRESSE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 515 2023: 486 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 511 (2012) → 486 (2023): -4.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 402 (1990) → 486 (2023): 20.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 267, of which 4.5 % second homes and 14.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 4.5 km NEPrimary school — 5.3 km EFood shop — 7.1 km SWGP — 7.1 km SWPharmacy — 10.2 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 (Chémery-Chéhéry): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bairon et ses environs): 7.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bairon et ses environs): 7.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bairon et ses environs): 10.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Chémery-Chéhéry): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.3

Days at or below 0 °C 68.2

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE CHESNE weather station, 10.7 km away at 168 m; the village itself is at 166 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at DOUZY, 18.7 km away at 153 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,021 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE CHESNE, 10.7 km away at 168 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 — 08469/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08469/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08469/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08469/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08115
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08116
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
Meslay-le-Vidame	28	284 km SW	508	27.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Trépot	25	289 km S	565	28.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Kermoroc'h	22	592 km W	443	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Meuilley	21	274 km S	411	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Néronde-sur-Dore	63	434 km S	483	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Savigné-sous-le-Lude	72	412 km SW	446	24.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meuilley	21	274 km S	411	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Meslay-le-Vidame	28	284 km SW	508	27.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Trépot	25	289 km S	565	28.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Savigné-sous-le-Lude	72	412 km SW	446	24.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Néronde-sur-Dore	63	434 km S	483	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Kermoroc'h	22	592 km W	443	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Vendresse'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
Chenecey-Buillon	25	287 km S	491	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bénestroff	57	163 km SE	516	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Villey-le-Sec	54	136 km SE	419	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Clermont	74	412 km S	474	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Laneuville-sur-Meuse	55	30 km SE	432	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
La Neuville-en-Tourne-à-Fuy	08	42 km SW	533	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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