Barret

Charente · CC des 4B Sud Charente · INSEE 16030

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

No daily shops 17.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 3 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Barret (INSEE 16030) is in Charente (16), part of CC des 4B Sud Charente. Population 1,080 (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/16030-barret

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 3 % of the 13,861 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.64	10	6.36
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.54

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 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE BARRET). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (SAND'HAIR CREA). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE BARRET	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	SAND'HAIR CREA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 750 2023: 1,080 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 960 (2012) → 1,080 (2023): 12.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 951 (1990) → 1,080 (2023): 13.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 527, of which 4.6 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.6 km WFood shop — 3.5 km EPharmacy — 3.6 km EBakery — 4.0 km SEGP — 4.2 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 (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 3.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Barret): 0.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 33

Muggy days a summer 6.5

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the GUIMPS weather station, 4.3 km away at 93 m; the village itself is at 81 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GUIMPS, 4.3 km away at 93 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 883 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BARBEZIEUX, 3.8 km away at 81 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 — 16030/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16030/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16030/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16030/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16030
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
Saint-Sulpice	60	463 km N	1,079	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 73 % · humidity 57 %
Lonrai	61	331 km N	1,062	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Bouquetot	27	437 km N	1,071	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 73 %
Moulins-en-Bessin	14	419 km N	1,125	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Thénouville	27	430 km N	1,014	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 73 %
Meyrieu-les-Étangs	38	421 km E	1,024	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lonrai	61	331 km N	1,062	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Moulins-en-Bessin	14	419 km N	1,125	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Meyrieu-les-Étangs	38	421 km E	1,024	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Thénouville	27	430 km N	1,014	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 73 %
Bouquetot	27	437 km N	1,071	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 73 %
Saint-Sulpice	60	463 km N	1,079	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 73 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Barret'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
Berneuil	17	35 km NW	1,169	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Varzay	17	48 km NW	845	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-des-Pots	17	40 km NW	1,019	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bayon-sur-Gironde	33	57 km SW	734	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Nantheuil	24	90 km E	989	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sulpice-d'Arnoult	17	61 km NW	924	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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