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Yoncq

Ardennes · CC des Portes du Luxembourg · INSEE 08502

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 7.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Yoncq (INSEE 08502) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Portes du Luxembourg. Population 80 (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/08502-yoncq

Vitality score

Vitality score 7.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 8,523 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.21102.14
Housing mix0.8254.11

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 161 2023: 80 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 105 (2012) → 80 (2023): -23.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 80 (2023): -28.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 56, of which 8.9 % second homes and 21.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.3 km SE (Beaumont-en-Argonne)Bakery — 5.3 km N (Autrecourt-et-Pourron)GP — 5.8 km NW (Raucourt-et-Flaba)Pharmacy — 5.8 km NW (Raucourt-et-Flaba)Food shop — 6.0 km NW (Raucourt-et-Flaba)
Primary school — 4.3 km SEBakery — 5.3 km NGP — 5.8 km NWPharmacy — 5.8 km NWFood shop — 6.0 km NW 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 (Autrecourt-et-Pourron): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Raucourt-et-Flaba): 6 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Raucourt-et-Flaba): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Raucourt-et-Flaba): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Beaumont-en-Argonne): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the RAUCOURT - MAN weather station, 5.9 km away at 200 m; the village itself is at 175 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at DOUZY, 10.3 km away at 153 m, over 23 summers. [11]

An average of 1,045 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at RAUCOURT - MAN, 5.9 km away at 200 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08502/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08502/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08502/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08502/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08034
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08354
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08055
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Belloy-Saint-Léonard80227 km W808.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Auxant21273 km S8016.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-sur-Bresle80239 km W8016.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Obtrée21186 km S8110.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-au-Plain50459 km W819.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Lidrezing57144 km SE8011.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lidrezing57144 km SE8011.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Obtrée21186 km S8110.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Belloy-Saint-Léonard80227 km W808.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Léger-sur-Bresle80239 km W8016.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Auxant21273 km S8016.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Neuville-au-Plain50459 km W819.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · 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 Yoncq'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Oulches-la-Vallée-Foulon0293 km W8016.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Leurville52140 km S819.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hourges5196 km W8611.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bièvres0295 km W809.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Barville88143 km SE798.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Ognéville54144 km SE877.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %