Vivier-au-Court

Ardennes · CA Ardenne Métropole · INSEE 08488

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

Partly served 47.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vivier-au-Court (INSEE 08488) is in Ardennes (08), part of CA Ardenne Métropole. Population 2,732 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/08488-vivier-au-court

Vitality score

Vitality score 47.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 7,729 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	0.39	25	9.75
Social	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.28	10	2.83
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BELLE MICHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PROXI). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT TURQUOISE · FRITERIE ST JULIEN · THE PLACE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DE LA GARE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBL FRANCOIS MITTERRAND). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-JACQUES SCHLACHTER, MÉDECIN · PATRICK FERREIRA-ALVES, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE VIVIER AU COURT). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE AU FIL DES PAGES). ^[3]

3 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE · COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (SABINE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	LA BELLE MICHE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PROXI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	3	RESTAURANT TURQUOISE · FRITERIE ST JULIEN · THE PLACE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DE LA GARE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBL FRANCOIS MITTERRAND	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	JEAN-JACQUES SCHLACHTER, MÉDECIN · PATRICK FERREIRA-ALVES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE VIVIER AU COURT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE AU FIL DES PAGES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	3	GYMNASE · COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	SABINE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 3,121 peak 1990: 3,488 2023: 2,732 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,134 (2012) → 2,732 (2023): -12.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 3,488 (1990) → 2,732 (2023): -21.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,285, of which 0.4 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Vivier-au-Court): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vivier-au-Court): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vivier-au-Court): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vivier-au-Court): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Vivier-au-Court): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.3

Days at or below 0 °C 58.5

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the MONTCY-ST-PIER weather station, 7.7 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 172 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 14.3 km away at 145 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 993 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MONTCY-ST-PIER, 7.7 km away at 145 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08488/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08488/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08488/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08488/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08488
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
Gonnehem	62	185 km NW	2,525	51.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Beaulieu	34	671 km S	2,264	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Évrecy	14	392 km W	2,066	62.5	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Roiffieux	07	501 km S	2,743	51.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Alleins	13	671 km S	2,852	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande	33	646 km SW	2,507	69	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 82 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gonnehem	62	185 km NW	2,525	51.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Évrecy	14	392 km W	2,066	62.5	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Roiffieux	07	501 km S	2,743	51.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande	33	646 km SW	2,507	69	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 82 %
Beaulieu	34	671 km S	2,264	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Alleins	13	671 km S	2,852	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · 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 Vivier-au-Court'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
Montois-la-Montagne	57	104 km SE	2,711	38.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Jouy-sur-Morin	77	154 km SW	2,230	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Auboué	54	101 km SE	2,650	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Maisse	91	233 km SW	2,797	64.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Sierentz	68	301 km SE	4,409	53.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Boutigny-sur-Essonne	91	229 km SW	3,146	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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