Challignac

Charente · CC des 4B Sud Charente · INSEE 16074

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

No daily shops 18.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Challignac (INSEE 16074) is in Charente (16), part of CC des 4B Sud Charente. Population 335 (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 18.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 18,043 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	0.52	10	5.24
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

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

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 CHALLIGNAC	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	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: 344 2023: 335 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 311 (2012) → 335 (2023): 7.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 327 (1990) → 335 (2023): 2.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 180, of which 7.8 % second homes and 13.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.8 km SEGP — 8.4 km NWFood shop — 8.5 km NWPharmacy — 8.5 km NW 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 (Berneuil): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 8.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 8.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 8.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.7

Days at or below 0 °C 49.6

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SALLES DE BARB weather station, 4.6 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 113 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SALLES DE BARB, 4.6 km away at 74 m, over 16 summers. ^[11]

An average of 819 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SALLES DE BARB, 4.6 km away at 74 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 — 16074/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16074/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16074/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16074/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16040
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16074
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
Meux	17	21 km W	327	19	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Arue	40	152 km S	356	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 85 %
Fargues	40	190 km S	314	19.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Druy-Parigny	58	311 km NE	298	17.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Le Plessis-Sainte-Opportune	27	413 km N	351	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Gor	40	152 km S	308	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meux	17	21 km W	327	19	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Gor	40	152 km S	308	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Arue	40	152 km S	356	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 85 %
Fargues	40	190 km S	314	19.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Druy-Parigny	58	311 km NE	298	17.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Le Plessis-Sainte-Opportune	27	413 km N	351	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 88 %

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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 Challignac'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
Saint-Georges-Blancaneix	24	65 km SE	275	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Crastes	32	199 km S	264	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Salvy	47	131 km S	200	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Nohant-en-Graçay	18	244 km NE	289	9.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Mondane	24	128 km SE	305	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Fieux	47	153 km S	323	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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