Courbillac

Charente · CC du Rouillacais · INSEE 16109

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

Few services 32.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Courbillac (INSEE 16109) is in Charente (16), part of CC du Rouillacais. Population 725 (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/16109-courbillac

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 16,267 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MA PETITE PATISSERIE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE COURBILLAC). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	MA PETITE PATISSERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 ELEMENTAIRE DE COURBILLAC	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	COURBILLAC 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: 400 peak 2017: 733 2023: 725 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 694 (2012) → 725 (2023): 4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 473 (1990) → 725 (2023): 53.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 318, of which 4.1 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.1 km SWPharmacy — 3.8 km SEGP — 8.9 km E 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 (Courbillac): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Houlette): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rouillac): 8.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sigogne): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Courbillac): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.6

Days at or below 0 °C 31.5

Muggy days a summer 3.6

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SIGOGNE weather station, 4.4 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 41 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at SIGOGNE, 4.4 km away at 74 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 796 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SIGOGNE, 4.4 km away at 74 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 — 16109/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16109/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16109/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16109/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16109
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16165
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16286
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16369
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
Les Essards	17	45 km W	740	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Les Hauts-de-Chée	55	530 km NE	693	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Vaast-d'Équiqueville	76	463 km N	748	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Brillon-en-Barrois	55	515 km NE	704	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Arvillers	80	490 km NE	759	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Greneville-en-Beauce	45	320 km NE	654	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 81 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Essards	17	45 km W	740	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Greneville-en-Beauce	45	320 km NE	654	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Vaast-d'Équiqueville	76	463 km N	748	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Arvillers	80	490 km NE	759	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Brillon-en-Barrois	55	515 km NE	704	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Les Hauts-de-Chée	55	530 km NE	693	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · 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 Courbillac'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
Les Essards	17	45 km W	740	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Cybardeaux	16	12 km E	771	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Ouenne	79	78 km N	789	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Sonnac	17	11 km NW	512	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Torteron	18	278 km NE	785	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Jauldes	16	34 km E	847	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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