Brillac

Charente · CC de Charente Limousine · INSEE 16065

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

Partly served 46/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brillac (INSEE 16065) is in Charente (16), part of CC de Charente Limousine. Population 591 (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 46/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 17,143 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0.49	20	9.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.46	10	4.64
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.23

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (O' DELICES D'AINCILLE). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (LA FRITE AUTREMENT · CIFROCEVENT · FLIGHT TAYO). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JACKY MARTINEAU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE RALY). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	O' DELICES D'AINCILLE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	4	LA FRITE AUTREMENT · CIFROCEVENT · FLIGHT TAYO	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE BRILLAC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JACKY MARTINEAU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE RALY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BRILLAC 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 881 2023: 591 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 659 (2012) → 591 (2023): -10.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 613 (1990) → 591 (2023): -3.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 436, of which 17.7 % second homes and 21.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, GP, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.6 km SEFood shop — 5.5 km S 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 (Brillac): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lesterps): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Brillac): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Brillac): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Brillac): 0.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.9

Days at or below 0 °C 51.7

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CONFOLENS weather station, 9.6 km away at 141 m; the village itself is at 215 m. ^[10]

The village sits 74 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CONFOLENS, 9.6 km away at 141 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 74 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 951 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CONFOLENS, 9.6 km away at 141 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 — 16065/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16065/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16065/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16065/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16065
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16182
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
Monceaux-sur-Dordogne	19	140 km SE	628	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Ozillac	17	117 km SW	613	34	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Courdemanche	72	196 km N	623	39.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Méard-de-Gurçon	24	136 km S	809	51.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Vézins-de-Lévézou	12	261 km SE	656	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
La Ferté-Loupière	89	276 km NE	559	42.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ozillac	17	117 km SW	613	34	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Méard-de-Gurçon	24	136 km S	809	51.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Monceaux-sur-Dordogne	19	140 km SE	628	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Courdemanche	72	196 km N	623	39.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 70 %
Vézins-de-Lévézou	12	261 km SE	656	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
La Ferté-Loupière	89	276 km NE	559	42.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · 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 Brillac'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
Champagnac-la-Rivière	87	40 km S	603	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sébastien	23	69 km NE	612	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Champsac	87	42 km S	702	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Janailhac	87	59 km SE	524	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Viane	81	295 km SE	528	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Parly	89	272 km NE	817	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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