Bernac

Charente · CC Val de Charente · INSEE 16039

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

No daily shops 19.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bernac (INSEE 16039) is in Charente (16), part of CC Val de Charente. Population 465 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 19.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 17,947 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	5	0
Population trend	0.57	10	5.74
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

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 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 DE BERNAC). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE DE BERNAC	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	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	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: 259 peak 2017: 489 2023: 465 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 481 (2012) → 465 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 433 (1990) → 465 (2023): 7.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 249, of which 4.4 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.3 km SGP — 2.4 km SEBakery — 2.5 km SEPharmacy — 2.7 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 (Ruffec): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ruffec): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Ruffec): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Ruffec): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bernac): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.9

Days at or below 0 °C 45.6

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the RUFFEC weather station, 2.6 km away at 121 m; the village itself is at 104 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at RUFFEC, 2.6 km away at 121 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

An average of 804 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at RUFFEC, 2.6 km away at 121 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 — 16039/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16039/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16039/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16039/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16292
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16039
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
Schwerdorff	57	604 km NE	472	21.3	Few services	no figures
Montfa	81	308 km SE	464	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Donzacq	40	277 km S	452	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 88 %
Vendeuil-Caply	60	427 km N	447	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Auberville-la-Renault	76	405 km N	449	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne	64	297 km S	449	22.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Donzacq	40	277 km S	452	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne	64	297 km S	449	22.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Montfa	81	308 km SE	464	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Auberville-la-Renault	76	405 km N	449	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 85 %
Vendeuil-Caply	60	427 km N	447	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Schwerdorff	57	604 km NE	472	21.3	Few services	no figures

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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 Bernac'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
La Marche	58	250 km NE	509	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Évry	89	339 km NE	402	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Maine-de-Boixe	16	22 km S	473	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Cerbois	18	189 km NE	393	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Cloué	86	44 km N	490	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Quenne	89	327 km NE	479	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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