Lignières-Ambleville

Charente · CA du Grand Cognac · INSEE 16186

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

Few services 39.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lignières-Ambleville (INSEE 16186) is in Charente (16), part of CA du Grand Cognac. Population 690 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2022-01-01 from 1 former commune: Ambleville (16010). ^[3]

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/16186-lignieres-ambleville

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 16,465 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.86	10	8.65
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.34	10	3.44
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PATISSERIE ARTISANALE ELENA). ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA MANSIO). ^[4,5]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE RAOUL DUPUY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA GRANDE CHAMPAGNE). ^[4,5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LIGNIERES SONNEVILLE RP). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (O P'TIT SALON DE CELINE). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	PATISSERIE ARTISANALE ELENA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA MANSIO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE RAOUL DUPUY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LA GRANDE CHAMPAGNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	LIGNIERES SONNEVILLE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	2	O P'TIT SALON DE CELINE	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,033 2023: 690 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 803 (2012) → 690 (2023): -14.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 818 (1990) → 690 (2023): -15.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 403, of which 5 % second homes and 17.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 7.3 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 (Lignières-Ambleville): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Lignières-Ambleville): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Segonzac): 7.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lignières-Ambleville): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lignières-Ambleville): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.1

Days at or below 0 °C 32.4

Muggy days a summer 5.3

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the JUILLAC-LE-COQ weather station, 6.4 km away at 84 m; the village itself is at 51 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at JUILLAC-LE-COQ, 6.4 km away at 84 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 772 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at JUILLAC-LE-COQ, 6.4 km away at 84 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 — 16186/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16186/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16186/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16186/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16366
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
Chezal-Benoît	18	226 km NE	765	35.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Athesans-Étroitefontaine	70	559 km NE	631	45.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 46 % · humidity 79 %
Chaumergy	39	458 km E	510	39.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Saulnot	70	566 km NE	758	43.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Saillat-sur-Vienne	87	85 km NE	840	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Crulai	61	356 km N	797	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saillat-sur-Vienne	87	85 km NE	840	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Chezal-Benoît	18	226 km NE	765	35.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Crulai	61	356 km N	797	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %
Chaumergy	39	458 km E	510	39.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Athesans-Étroitefontaine	70	559 km NE	631	45.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 46 % · humidity 79 %
Saulnot	70	566 km NE	758	43.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Lignières-Ambleville'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
Saillat-sur-Vienne	87	85 km NE	840	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Courbillac	16	24 km N	725	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Les Essards	17	52 km NW	740	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Biras	24	71 km SE	731	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-la-Comtesse	17	65 km N	743	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Sigogne	16	20 km N	961	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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