Bunzac

Charente · CC La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord · INSEE 16067

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

Few services 22.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bunzac (INSEE 16067) is in Charente (16), part of CC La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord. Population 447 (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/16067-bunzac

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,931 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	0.85	10	8.46
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 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 ELEMENTAIRE DE BUNZAC). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (KAREN COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

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

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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE BUNZAC	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	KAREN COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE	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: 348 peak 2012: 475 2023: 447 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 475 (2012) → 447 (2023): -5.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 332 (1990) → 447 (2023): 34.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 229, of which 4.4 % second homes and 10 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.5 km SGP — 3.6 km SFood shop — 5.0 km NEPharmacy — 5.0 km NE 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 (Pranzac): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pranzac): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bunzac): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.7

Days at or below 0 °C 42.5

Muggy days a summer 4.2

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the RIVIERES weather station, 7.2 km away at 109 m; the village itself is at 109 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at RIVIERES, 7.2 km away at 109 m, over 13 summers. ^[11]

An average of 882 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA ROCHEFOUCAUL, 4.8 km away at 81 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16067/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16067/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16067/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16067/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16281
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16067
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
Chalagnac	24	72 km S	442	22.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Hélène	88	558 km NE	447	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Jonquières	81	268 km SE	439	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Caillouël-Crépigny	02	483 km NE	459	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Ferrières	60	462 km N	435	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Christophe-à-Berry	02	463 km NE	441	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 95 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chalagnac	24	72 km S	442	22.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Jonquières	81	268 km SE	439	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Ferrières	60	462 km N	435	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Christophe-à-Berry	02	463 km NE	441	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 95 %
Caillouël-Crépigny	02	483 km NE	459	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Sainte-Hélène	88	558 km NE	447	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Bunzac'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
Antoigné	49	158 km N	441	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Amuré	79	98 km NW	429	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Sassierges-Saint-Germain	36	168 km NE	448	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Verrie	49	179 km N	458	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Loubajac	65	288 km S	445	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Trenal	39	408 km E	472	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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