Ambérac

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16008

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

No daily shops 18/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ambérac (INSEE 16008) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 315 (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/16008-amberac

Vitality score

Vitality score 18/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 17,949 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.43	10	4.32
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.11

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE D'AMBERAC). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (AMBERAC AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE D'AMBERAC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	AMBERAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 317 peak 1982: 361 2023: 315 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 333 (2012) → 315 (2023): -5.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 338 (1990) → 315 (2023): -6.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 206, of which 18.9 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.3 km SEGP — 5.0 km NEPharmacy — 6.3 km NWBakery — 6.4 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 (Aigre): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Xambes): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Luxé): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Aigre): 6.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Ambérac): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

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 3

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. ^[12]

Measured at the AIGRE weather station, 6.9 km away at 69 m; the village itself is at 65 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MONTIGNAC, 8.8 km away at 63 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

An average of 881 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at AIGRE, 6.9 km away at 69 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16008/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16008/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16008/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16008/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16005
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16423
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16196
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16008
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
Lamothe	40	236 km S	308	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Bourdons-sur-Rognon	52	476 km NE	293	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Neuviller-la-Roche	67	614 km NE	333	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Baneuil	24	122 km SE	321	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Loiré-sur-Nie	17	29 km W	283	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Veuxhaulles-sur-Aube	21	428 km NE	216	15.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Loiré-sur-Nie	17	29 km W	283	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Baneuil	24	122 km SE	321	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Lamothe	40	236 km S	308	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Veuxhaulles-sur-Aube	21	428 km NE	216	15.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Bourdons-sur-Rognon	52	476 km NE	293	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Neuviller-la-Roche	67	614 km NE	333	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Ambérac'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
Loiré-sur-Nie	17	29 km W	283	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Vouharte	16	4.2 km S	300	10.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvicq-le-Château	17	19 km W	365	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Alan	31	300 km S	292	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Cunèges	24	122 km S	314	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Maltat	71	303 km E	278	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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