Cellefrouin

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16068

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

No daily shops 18.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 17 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cellefrouin (INSEE 16068) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 598 (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 18.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 17,075 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.56	10	5.62
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.49

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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 CELLEFROUIN	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	1	CELLEFROUIN 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 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: 730 2023: 598 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 563 (2012) → 598 (2023): 6.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 563 (1990) → 598 (2023): 6.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 414, of which 25.1 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 5.6 km EBakery — 5.8 km EPharmacy — 5.9 km EGP — 7.1 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 (Saint-Claud): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Claud): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure): 7.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Claud): 5.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.7

Days at or below 0 °C 49.8

Muggy days a summer 3.8

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST FRONT weather station, 7.4 km away at 99 m; the village itself is at 114 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ST FRONT, 7.4 km away at 99 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST FRONT, 7.4 km away at 99 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

62 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 84,500 € — 704 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Charente is 1,144 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16068/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16068/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16068/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16068/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16308
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16085
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16068
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Anzême	23	121 km E	551	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chanteix	19	117 km SE	596	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Denis-le-Gast	50	363 km N	530	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien	24	61 km S	444	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-des-Bois	41	207 km N	582	19.4	No daily shops	no figures
Santranges	18	255 km NE	440	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien	24	61 km S	444	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chanteix	19	117 km SE	596	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Anzême	23	121 km E	551	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-des-Bois	41	207 km N	582	19.4	No daily shops	no figures
Santranges	18	255 km NE	440	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Denis-le-Gast	50	363 km N	530	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 59 % · 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 Cellefrouin'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
Chapelle-Voland	39	396 km E	638	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire-en-Lignières	18	166 km NE	504	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Brigueil-le-Chantre	86	78 km NE	455	17.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Estèphe	24	39 km SE	583	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sauveterre-de-Comminges	31	319 km S	702	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Le Breuil	03	254 km E	524	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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