Bouteville

Charente · CA du Grand Cognac · INSEE 16057

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

No daily shops 15.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bouteville (INSEE 16057) is in Charente (16), part of CA du Grand Cognac. Population 313 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 15.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 17,885 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	0.29	10	2.86
Housing mix	0.8	5	4.01

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

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE BOUTEVILLE	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	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: 459 2023: 313 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 330 (2012) → 313 (2023): -5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 398 (1990) → 313 (2023): -21.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 192, of which 9.9 % second homes and 18.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.9 km NWPharmacy — 5.0 km NFood shop — 5.7 km SWGP — 6.0 km E 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 (Saint-Preuil): 1.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lignières-Ambleville): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Châteauneuf-sur-Charente): 6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Même-les-Carrières): 5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Bouteville): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.7

Days at or below 0 °C 29.5

Muggy days a summer 13.8▸

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the BOUTEVILLE weather station, 0.8 km away at 67 m; the village itself is at 85 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 14 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at BOUTEVILLE, 0.8 km away at 67 m, over 11 summers. ^[13]

An average of 757 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at BOUTEVILLE, 0.8 km away at 67 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16057/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16057/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16057/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16057/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16343
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16090
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16340
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16057
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
Lachaise	16	11 km SW	318	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Michel	31	287 km S	306	23.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 29 %
Villegouin	36	191 km NE	325	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 21 %
Savignac-sur-Leyze	47	144 km SE	321	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Le Faget	31	274 km SE	297	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Garrigues	81	258 km SE	333	23.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lachaise	16	11 km SW	318	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Savignac-sur-Leyze	47	144 km SE	321	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Villegouin	36	191 km NE	325	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 21 %
Garrigues	81	258 km SE	333	23.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 36 %
Le Faget	31	274 km SE	297	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Michel	31	287 km S	306	23.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Bouteville'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
Bonneuil	16	2.6 km S	247	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vielleségure	64	253 km S	376	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Malaussanne	64	228 km S	450	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Birac	16	7.1 km SE	374	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Garos	64	234 km S	262	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Nousse	40	217 km S	252	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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