Chabrac

Charente · CC de Charente Limousine · INSEE 16071

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

Few services 20.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chabrac (INSEE 16071) is in Charente (16), part of CC de Charente Limousine. Population 603 (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 20.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 17,037 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	0.72	10	7.21
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.1

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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE DE CHABRAC). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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 CHABRAC	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	1		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: 548 2023: 603 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 565 (2012) → 603 (2023): 6.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 494 (1990) → 603 (2023): 22.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 322, of which 9 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.3 km NWGP — 4.4 km NWFood shop — 5.7 km SEPharmacy — 6.7 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 (Saint-Maurice-des-Lions): 4.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Étagnac): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Maurice-des-Lions): 4.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Chabanais): 6.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Chabrac): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.1

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

Muggy days a summer 2.6

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAULGOND_SAPC weather station, 4.2 km away at 228 m; the village itself is at 221 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at SAULGOND_SAPC, 4.2 km away at 228 m, over 12 summers. ^[12]

An average of 876 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAULGOND_SAPC, 4.2 km away at 228 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16071/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16071/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16071/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16071/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16337
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16132
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16070
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16071
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
Glénic	23	97 km E	625	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Bois	17	115 km SW	523	20.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 57 %
La Bigottière	53	279 km NW	489	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Sauviat	63	218 km E	588	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Domsure	01	355 km E	554	29	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 69 %
Pinel-Hauterive	47	167 km S	564	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Glénic	23	97 km E	625	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Bois	17	115 km SW	523	20.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 57 %
Pinel-Hauterive	47	167 km S	564	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Sauviat	63	218 km E	588	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
La Bigottière	53	279 km NW	489	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Domsure	01	355 km E	554	29	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 69 %

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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 Chabrac'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
Sauviat	63	218 km E	588	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Christophe-en-Bourbonnais	03	221 km E	442	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Baudres	36	141 km NE	397	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vievy-le-Rayé	41	219 km N	470	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-André-sur-Sèvre	79	144 km NW	637	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Bussy-le-Repos	89	303 km NE	453	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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