Puyréaux

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16272

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

Few services 34.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Puyréaux (INSEE 16272) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 582 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/16272-puyreaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 17,267 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.94	10	9.44
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.44

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 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”.

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

3 × Restaurant (LA RESTAURATION MODERNE · LE PETIT LAURENT ALEXANDRE · HORIZON). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	3	LA RESTAURATION MODERNE · LE PETIT LAURENT ALEXANDRE · HORIZON	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE PUYREAUX	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	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 334 2023: 582 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 505 (2012) → 582 (2023): 15.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 403 (1990) → 582 (2023): 44.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 304, of which 5.6 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.8 km NWPharmacy — 2.9 km NWBakery — 3.0 km NWGP — 3.1 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 (Mansle-les-Fontaines): 3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mansle-les-Fontaines): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Mansle-les-Fontaines): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mansle-les-Fontaines): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Puyréaux): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.7

Days at or below 0 °C 49.8

Muggy days a summer 3.8

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 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST FRONT weather station, 6.9 km away at 99 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST FRONT, 6.9 km away at 99 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST FRONT, 6.9 km away at 99 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

45 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 123,800 € — 827 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Charente is 1,144 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16272/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16272/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16272/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16272/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16272
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Cardroc	35	313 km NW	589	31.9	Few services	no figures
Brée	53	261 km N	591	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 100 %
Verneix	03	199 km E	574	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Beaufort	38	387 km E	573	30.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Montoldre	03	255 km E	590	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Calonges	47	166 km S	581	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Calonges	47	166 km S	581	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Verneix	03	199 km E	574	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Montoldre	03	255 km E	590	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Brée	53	261 km N	591	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 100 %
Cardroc	35	313 km NW	589	31.9	Few services	no figures
Beaufort	38	387 km E	573	30.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · 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 Puyréaux'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
La Faye	16	18 km N	617	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Nandax	42	307 km E	564	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vincent-la-Commanderie	26	396 km E	636	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Le Bourdet	79	77 km NW	564	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Huos	31	311 km S	491	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Bogy	07	360 km E	488	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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