Hiesse

Identity

Hiesse (INSEE 16164) is in Charente (16), part of CC de Charente Limousine. Population 238 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/16164-hiesse

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 16,971 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.

Services

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 241 (2012) → 238 (2023): -1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 295 (1990) → 238 (2023): -19.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 172, of which 12.8 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Pressac): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lessac): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Alloue): 6.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Confolens): 7.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Lessac): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CONFOLENS weather station, 7.5 km away at 141 m; the village itself is at 195 m. ^[12]

The village sits 54 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at CONFOLENS, 7.5 km away at 141 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 54 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 977 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LESSAC, 3.4 km away at 196 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16164/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16164/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16164/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16164/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86200
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 16181
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 16007
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 16106
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024