Moulidars

Charente · CA du Grand Cognac · INSEE 16234

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moulidars (INSEE 16234) is in Charente (16), part of CA du Grand Cognac. Population 662 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 16,666 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.72	10	7.19
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (PASTA FOLIE FOOD TRUCK). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE MOULIDARS). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MOULIDARS AP). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	PASTA FOLIE FOOD TRUCK	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE MOULIDARS	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	MOULIDARS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	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: 569 peak 2012: 745 2023: 662 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 745 (2012) → 662 (2023): -11.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 543 (1990) → 662 (2023): 21.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 351, of which 3.7 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.4 km EPharmacy — 4.0 km EGP — 4.1 km EFood shop — 5.1 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 (Hiersac): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mérignac): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Hiersac): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Hiersac): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Moulidars): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.3

Days at or below 0 °C 43

Muggy days a summer 4.2

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 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the GRAVES-SAINT-AMANT weather station, 5.2 km away at 22 m; the village itself is at 85 m. ^[11]

The village sits 63 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at GRAVES-SAINT-AMANT, 5.2 km away at 22 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 63 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 736 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at GRAVES-SAINT-AMANT, 5.2 km away at 22 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 — 16234/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16234/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16234/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16234/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16216
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16234
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
Heilles	60	444 km N	644	29.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Foulain	52	479 km NE	673	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Oisseau-le-Petit	72	299 km N	671	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 97 %
Balbronn	67	652 km NE	681	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lansac	33	77 km SW	663	29.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Garganvillar	82	207 km SE	675	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lansac	33	77 km SW	663	29.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Garganvillar	82	207 km SE	675	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Oisseau-le-Petit	72	299 km N	671	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 97 %
Heilles	60	444 km N	644	29.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Foulain	52	479 km NE	673	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Balbronn	67	652 km NE	681	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Moulidars'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
Marnay	86	87 km N	713	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Luché-Thouarsais	79	140 km N	536	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Tourriers	16	23 km NE	802	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sansais	79	80 km NW	760	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Chânes	71	376 km E	530	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Pierreclos	71	373 km E	846	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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