Mesnac

Charente · CA du Grand Cognac · INSEE 16218

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mesnac (INSEE 16218) is in Charente (16), part of CA du Grand Cognac. Population 404 (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/16218-mesnac

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 18,020 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.39
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BEAU ALAIN). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BEAU ALAIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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)	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	1	GYMNASE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 282 peak 2012: 414 2023: 404 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 414 (2012) → 404 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 326 (1990) → 404 (2023): 23.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 195, of which 2.1 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 0.7 km EPrimary school — 3.8 km SGP — 4.4 km SBakery — 4.5 km SWPharmacy — 4.5 km S 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 (Val-de-Cognac): 4.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mesnac): 0.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Val-de-Cognac): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Val-de-Cognac): 4.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Val-de-Cognac): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.4

Days at or below 0 °C 46.6

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BREVILLE weather station, 5.3 km away at 21 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BREVILLE, 5.3 km away at 21 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 819 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BREVILLE, 5.3 km away at 21 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16218/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16218/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16218/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16218/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16097
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16218
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
Fals	47	204 km SE	403	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Vicq	78	376 km NE	389	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Souligny	10	425 km NE	381	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Bû	14	344 km N	436	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Ménétreux-le-Pitois	21	417 km NE	389	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Wadelincourt	08	587 km NE	447	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fals	47	204 km SE	403	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Bû	14	344 km N	436	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Vicq	78	376 km NE	389	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Ménétreux-le-Pitois	21	417 km NE	389	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Souligny	10	425 km NE	381	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Wadelincourt	08	587 km NE	447	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Mesnac'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
Casseuil	33	134 km S	363	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Tauriac	81	260 km SE	413	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Lasseube-Propre	32	256 km S	337	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Blaignac	33	138 km S	335	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Cadarsac	33	102 km S	342	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Coux	17	52 km S	480	27	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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