Mosnac-Saint-Simeux

Charente · CA du Grand Cognac · INSEE 16233

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

Few services 35.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mosnac-Saint-Simeux (INSEE 16233) is in Charente (16), part of CA du Grand Cognac. Population 950 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2021-01-01 from 1 former commune: Saint-Simeux (16351). ^[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 35.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 14,653 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.66	10	6.63
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.39

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE MAS CHARENTAIS). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar. ^[5]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE MOSNAC-SAINT-SIMEUX). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE MOSNAC-SAINT-SIMIEUX). ^[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, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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	1	LE MAS CHARENTAIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE MOSNAC-SAINT-SIMEUX	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE MOSNAC-SAINT-SIMIEUX	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 703 peak 2017: 1,045 2023: 950 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,038 (2012) → 950 (2023): -8.5 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 817 (1990) → 950 (2023): 16.3 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 508, of which 6.1 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.2 km EBakery — 3.4 km SWGP — 3.7 km SEPharmacy — 5.7 km E 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 (Châteauneuf-sur-Charente): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sireuil): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Sireuil): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Nersac): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Mosnac-Saint-Simeux): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.5

Days at or below 0 °C 33

Muggy days a summer 5.5

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 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the CHATEAUNEUF weather station, 3.9 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 25 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at GRAVES-SAINT-AMANT, 7.2 km away at 22 m, over 12 summers. ^[13]

An average of 731 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAUNEUF, 3.9 km away at 55 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16233/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16233/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16233/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16233/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16090
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16370
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16244
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16233
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
Arçon	25	513 km E	961	41.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Poilley	50	348 km N	969	42.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Taisnières-sur-Hon	59	596 km NE	963	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 77 %
Val d'Orger	27	428 km N	986	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Néry	60	458 km NE	670	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Aulhat-Flat	63	259 km E	944	31	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aulhat-Flat	63	259 km E	944	31	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %
Poilley	50	348 km N	969	42.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Val d'Orger	27	428 km N	986	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Néry	60	458 km NE	670	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Arçon	25	513 km E	961	41.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Taisnières-sur-Hon	59	596 km NE	963	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 77 %

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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 Mosnac-Saint-Simeux'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
Mouliets-et-Villemartin	33	86 km S	1,041	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Marillac-le-Franc	16	37 km E	825	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Cognac	16	32 km W	832	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Nantheuil	24	78 km E	989	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Romain-la-Virvée	33	79 km S	956	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Agris	16	33 km NE	891	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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