Orival

Charente · CC Lavalette Tude Dronne · INSEE 16252

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

No daily shops 7.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Orival (INSEE 16252) is in Charente (16), part of CC Lavalette Tude Dronne. Population 149 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 7.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 6 % of the 14,028 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.34	10	3.42
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.74

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 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

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 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 123 peak 1990: 177 2023: 149 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 155 (2012) → 149 (2023): -3.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 177 (1990) → 149 (2023): -15.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 106, of which 22.6 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.2 km WFood shop — 2.3 km WBakery — 2.4 km WPharmacy — 2.5 km WGP — 2.8 km W 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 (Chalais): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chalais): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chalais): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Chalais): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Chalais): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.4

Days at or below 0 °C 41.6

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST QUENTIN DE C weather station, 3.7 km away at 76 m; the village itself is at 100 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at RIOUX MARTIN, 5.6 km away at 81 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 862 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST QUENTIN DE C, 3.7 km away at 76 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16252/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16252/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16252/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16252/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16073
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
Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx	23	197 km NE	146	6.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 30 % · humidity 71 %
Le Mesnil-Gilbert	50	392 km N	146	6.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Le Bersac	05	458 km E	146	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Bellon	16	4.8 km NE	145	8.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Vernusse	03	251 km NE	149	9.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Mano	40	112 km SW	149	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 84 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bellon	16	4.8 km NE	145	8.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Mano	40	112 km SW	149	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 84 %
Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx	23	197 km NE	146	6.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 30 % · humidity 71 %
Vernusse	03	251 km NE	149	9.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Le Mesnil-Gilbert	50	392 km N	146	6.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Le Bersac	05	458 km E	146	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · 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 Orival'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
Estivals	19	112 km E	135	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Bazile-de-Meyssac	19	132 km E	142	9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Frayssinhes	46	153 km E	169	8.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Tourtrès	47	90 km S	140	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-André-en-Bresse	71	417 km NE	136	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Cirq-Madelon	46	111 km SE	153	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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