Écuras

Charente · CC La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord · INSEE 16124

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

Few services 25.4/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Écuras (INSEE 16124) is in Charente (16), part of CC La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord. Population 579 (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 25.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 39 % of the 17,281 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.42	10	4.22
Housing mix	0.17	5	0.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LORCHIDEE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE CARABAZ · LA NOUVELLE DAME BLANCHE). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	1	LORCHIDEE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE CARABAZ · LA NOUVELLE DAME BLANCHE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	ECURAS 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 776 2023: 579 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 607 (2012) → 579 (2023): -4.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 628 (1990) → 579 (2023): -7.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 672, of which 41.4 % second homes and 11.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 4.7 km SEGP — 4.8 km SEFood shop — 4.9 km SEPrimary school — 5.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.7 km W 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 (Bussière-Badil): 4.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bussière-Badil): 4.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bussière-Badil): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montbron): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bussière-Badil): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.5

Days at or below 0 °C 49.4

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ORGEDEUIL weather station, 7.1 km away at 134 m; the village itself is at 224 m. ^[10]

The village sits 90 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MONTEMBOEUF, 11.3 km away at 247 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,011 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ORGEDEUIL, 7.1 km away at 134 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16124/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16124/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16124/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16124/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 24071
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16223
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
La Côte-Saint-Didier	42	255 km E	520	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
La Grande-Verrière	71	309 km NE	542	31	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 79 %
Gréez-sur-Roc	72	273 km N	344	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Rougnat	23	155 km E	471	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Isolaccio-di-Fiumorbo	2B	810 km SE	330	26	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Plantaire	36	121 km NE	601	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Plantaire	36	121 km NE	601	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rougnat	23	155 km E	471	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
La Côte-Saint-Didier	42	255 km E	520	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Gréez-sur-Roc	72	273 km N	344	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
La Grande-Verrière	71	309 km NE	542	31	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 79 %
Isolaccio-di-Fiumorbo	2B	810 km SE	330	26	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · 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 Écuras'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
Collonges-la-Rouge	19	110 km SE	478	48	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Bonnes	16	60 km SW	364	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Clussais-la-Pommeraie	79	69 km NW	562	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Grand-Brassac	24	44 km S	555	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bonnay-Saint-Ythaire	71	327 km E	449	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Avit-Sénieur	24	103 km S	422	30.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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