Aigre

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16005

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

Partly served 55.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aigre (INSEE 16005) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 1,594 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Villejésus (16411). ^[3]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/16005-aigre

Vitality score

Vitality score 55.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 11,185 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	9.84
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.42	10	4.24
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (B-SWEET). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE PARISIENNE). ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SPAR). ^[4,5]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[4,5]

6 × Restaurant (LE KESAKO · OLLINO LUTHER · HOTEL DU SQUARE · CENTRAL). ^[4,5]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE DU COMMERCE LA BLAGUE A TABAC). ^[5]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE LES PETITS DE L'OSME). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MARC MOUCLIER · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME DES ANGES). ^[4]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE DE L OSME). ^[4]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTIAN RIEUTORD, MÉDECIN · CYNTHIA RIEUTORD, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE D OFFICINE MME FOUCHER). ^[4,5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE COEUR DE CHARENTE - AIGRE). ^[4]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[4]

2 × Bank (CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL CHARENTE-PERIGORD). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE A L'ESSENTIELLE N.A.T.C). ^[4,5]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	B-SWEET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE PARISIENNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SPAR	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	6	LE KESAKO · OLLINO LUTHER · HOTEL DU SQUARE · CENTRAL	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [4,5]
Café / bar	2	CAFE DU COMMERCE LA BLAGUE A TABAC	INSEE SIRENE 2 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LES PETITS DE L'OSME	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MARC MOUCLIER · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME DES ANGES	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Collège	1	COLLEGE DE L OSME	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CHRISTIAN RIEUTORD, MÉDECIN · CYNTHIA RIEUTORD, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE D OFFICINE MME FOUCHER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE COEUR DE CHARENTE - AIGRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	2	CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL CHARENTE-PERIGORD	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Hairdresser	2	COIFFURE A L'ESSENTIELLE N.A.T.C	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[6]

Trajectory

1968: 1,681 peak 1990: 1,726 2023: 1,594 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,639 (2012) → 1,594 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. ^[7,1]

Population 1,726 (1990) → 1,594 (2023): -7.6 % over 30 years. ^[8,1]

Dwellings (2023): 930, of which 7.8 % second homes and 13.4 % vacant. ^[9]

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 (Aigre): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Food shop (Aigre): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Aigre): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Aigre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Aigre): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.2

Days at or below 0 °C 51.1

Muggy days a summer 5.6

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the AIGRE weather station, 0.8 km away at 69 m; the village itself is at 66 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VERDILLE, 5.9 km away at 87 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

An average of 881 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at AIGRE, 0.8 km away at 69 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16005/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-09— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/2417518b-30a1-3129-b370-d944a445e2ce— “Marché hebdomadaire”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16005/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16005/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16005/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16005
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
Cercy-la-Tour	58	299 km NE	1,653	52.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Châteaumeillant	18	184 km NE	1,629	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Valérien	89	345 km NE	1,823	49.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Pierre-de-Bresse	71	418 km E	1,967	64.1	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 78 %
Château-Renard	45	317 km NE	2,112	61	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Boussac	23	177 km E	1,236	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boussac	23	177 km E	1,236	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Châteaumeillant	18	184 km NE	1,629	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Cercy-la-Tour	58	299 km NE	1,653	52.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Château-Renard	45	317 km NE	2,112	61	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Valérien	89	345 km NE	1,823	49.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Pierre-de-Bresse	71	418 km E	1,967	64.1	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 78 %

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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 Aigre'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
Le Fousseret	31	302 km S	1,863	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vigan-en-Quercy	46	170 km SE	1,535	54.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière	24	72 km SE	1,166	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Jegun	32	240 km S	1,176	53.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Mareuil en Périgord	24	60 km SE	2,326	56.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Sigoulès-et-Flaugeac	24	130 km S	1,280	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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