Warcq

Ardennes · CA Ardenne Métropole · INSEE 08497

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

Partly served 48.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Warcq (INSEE 08497) is in Ardennes (08), part of CA Ardenne Métropole. Population 1,282 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/08497-warcq

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 12,809 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	0.47	25	11.74
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.34	10	3.39
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 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) (PAINS & CIE · MAISON ROGER WARCQ · MAISON BOUZAIN). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (LIDL · ALDI MARCHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (DI PRAETORIAN). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE WARCQ 1). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BELLEVUE). ^[3]

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

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MELANIE LABE, MÉDECIN · FABIENNE PHILIPPE, MÉDECIN · CAROLINE DAUTREMAY, MÉDECIN · VERONIQUE FEVRIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE WARCQ). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTISPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	PAINS & CIE · MAISON ROGER WARCQ · MAISON BOUZAIN	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	LIDL · ALDI MARCHE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	DI PRAETORIAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE WARCQ 1	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BELLEVUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE CENTRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	MELANIE LABE, MÉDECIN · FABIENNE PHILIPPE, MÉDECIN · CAROLINE DAUTREMAY, MÉDECIN · VERONIQUE FEVRIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE WARCQ	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTISPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 1,490 peak 1990: 1,528 2023: 1,282 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,312 (2012) → 1,282 (2023): -2.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,528 (1990) → 1,282 (2023): -16.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 673, of which 1.8 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 0.8 km SEFood shop — 0.9 km SEPharmacy — 1.3 km SE 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 (Warcq): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Charleville-Mézières): 0.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Charleville-Mézières): 0.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Charleville-Mézières): 1.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Warcq): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.1

Days at or below 0 °C 77

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHARLEVILLE-MEZ weather station, 3.1 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 143 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHARLEVILLE-MEZ, 3.1 km away at 145 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 925 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MEZIERES, 2.7 km away at 140 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 — 08497/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08497/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08497/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08497/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08497
INSEE BPE 2025 — 08105
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
Solesmes	72	423 km SW	1,240	49.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 50 %
Dreuil-lès-Amiens	80	177 km W	1,576	41.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Marguerite	88	237 km SE	2,234	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Barjouville	28	278 km SW	1,742	57.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Pont-Saint-Vincent	54	166 km SE	1,775	38.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-Belle-Roche	71	377 km S	1,385	48.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pont-Saint-Vincent	54	166 km SE	1,775	38.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Dreuil-lès-Amiens	80	177 km W	1,576	41.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Marguerite	88	237 km SE	2,234	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Barjouville	28	278 km SW	1,742	57.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-Belle-Roche	71	377 km S	1,385	48.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Solesmes	72	423 km SW	1,240	49.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 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 Warcq'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
Bazeilles	08	24 km SE	2,470	52.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Balan	08	22 km SE	1,579	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Custines	54	152 km SE	3,089	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Les Forges	88	216 km SE	1,776	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Cravanche	90	283 km SE	1,942	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Dogneville	88	215 km SE	1,521	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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