Montmérac

Charente · CC des 4B Sud Charente · INSEE 16224

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

Few services 20.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montmérac (INSEE 16224) is in Charente (16), part of CC des 4B Sud Charente. Population 730 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Lamérac (16179). ^[3]

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 20.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 15 % of the 16,227 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.62	10	6.25
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar. ^[5]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
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: 596 peak 1999: 731 2023: 730 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 730 (2012) → 730 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 649 (1990) → 730 (2023): 12.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 396, of which 2.8 % second homes and 13.1 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.8 km NEBakery — 4.0 km NEFood shop — 4.0 km NEPharmacy — 4.0 km NEGP — 4.5 km NE 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 (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.7

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

Muggy days a summer 4.3

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE TATRE weather station, 4.6 km away at 97 m; the village itself is at 126 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LE TATRE, 4.6 km away at 97 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 883 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BARBEZIEUX, 3 km away at 81 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 — 16224/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16224/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16224/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16224/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16028
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
Thodure	38	419 km E	795	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Puybegon	81	248 km SE	661	22	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-Petit	47	101 km S	620	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Martin-le-Gréard	50	470 km N	606	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Marigny-Chemereau	86	113 km N	603	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ney	39	491 km E	599	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-Petit	47	101 km S	620	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Marigny-Chemereau	86	113 km N	603	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Puybegon	81	248 km SE	661	22	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Thodure	38	419 km E	795	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Martin-le-Gréard	50	470 km N	606	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Ney	39	491 km E	599	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 3 % · 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 Montmérac'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 Métairies	16	29 km N	707	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Panossas	38	421 km E	696	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Yversay	86	140 km N	611	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chevagny-les-Chevrières	71	397 km E	607	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Coulonges-Thouarsais	79	165 km N	443	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bellegarde-Marsal	81	260 km SE	690	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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