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Montignac-le-Coq

Charente · CC Lavalette Tude Dronne · INSEE 16227

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 5.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 3 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montignac-le-Coq (INSEE 16227) is in Charente (16), part of CC Lavalette Tude Dronne. Population 130 (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/16227-montignac-le-coq

Vitality score

Vitality score 5.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 3 % of the 12,923 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.3103.02
Housing mix0.3451.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 251 2023: 130 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 131 (2012) → 130 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 162 (1990) → 130 (2023): -19.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 119, of which 32.8 % second homes and 10.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.8 km SE (Saint-Séverin)Pharmacy — 3.8 km SE (Saint-Séverin)Bakery — 3.9 km SE (Saint-Séverin)Primary school — 4.0 km SE (Saint-Séverin)GP — 4.1 km SE (Saint-Séverin)
Food shop — 3.8 km SEPharmacy — 3.8 km SEBakery — 3.9 km SEPrimary school — 4.0 km SEGP — 4.1 km SE 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 (Saint-Séverin): 3.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Séverin): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Séverin): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Séverin): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Saint-Séverin): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the BORS weather station, 8.2 km away at 98 m; the village itself is at 130 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at BORS, 8.2 km away at 98 m, over 17 summers. [9]

An average of 768 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at BORS, 8.2 km away at 98 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16227/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16227/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16227/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16227/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 16350
  9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Corsaint21391 km NE1299.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Brognon08594 km NE1307No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %
Canville-la-Rocque50467 km N1256.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 68 %
Mechmont46128 km SE13411.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Chazelet36161 km NE1247.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Marcel-du-Périgord2461 km SE1377.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Marcel-du-Périgord2461 km SE1377.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Mechmont46128 km SE13411.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Chazelet36161 km NE1247.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Corsaint21391 km NE1299.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Canville-la-Rocque50467 km N1256.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 68 %
Brognon08594 km NE1307No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Montignac-le-Coq'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Gaujan32218 km S1227.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-André-de-Double2423 km S1627.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Courgeac1612 km NW1677.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bellon169.0 km SW1458.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Betbezer-d'Armagnac40155 km S1248.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Lapenne09273 km SE1198.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %