Saint-Fraigne

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16317

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

No daily shops 19.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Fraigne (INSEE 16317) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 427 (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/16317-saint-fraigne

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 17,967 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.4	10	4.05
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA FLECA). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (POINT DE LECTURE DE SAINT FRAIGNE). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA FLECA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	SAINT FRAIGNE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	POINT DE LECTURE DE SAINT FRAIGNE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 562 2023: 427 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 451 (2012) → 427 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 472 (1990) → 427 (2023): -9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 289, of which 12.1 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Food shop — 6.1 km EPrimary school — 6.6 km SPharmacy — 6.7 km SGP — 6.9 km S 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-Fraigne): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tusson): 6.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Aigre): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Aigre): 6.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Aigre): 6.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26

Days at or below 0 °C 53.4

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the TUSSON weather station, 5.5 km away at 88 m; the village itself is at 78 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at TUSSON, 5.5 km away at 88 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TUSSON, 5.5 km away at 88 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 — 16317/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16317/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16317/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16317/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16317
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16390
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16005
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
Martaizé	86	107 km N	355	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arçay	86	113 km N	343	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Labécède-Lauragais	11	326 km SE	420	31.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 50 % · humidity 79 %
Trépail	51	471 km NE	424	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Ussel	15	249 km E	453	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 39 % · humidity 79 %
Verneuil-sur-Indre	37	147 km NE	466	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Martaizé	86	107 km N	355	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arçay	86	113 km N	343	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Verneuil-sur-Indre	37	147 km NE	466	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Ussel	15	249 km E	453	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 39 % · humidity 79 %
Labécède-Lauragais	11	326 km SE	420	31.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 50 % · humidity 79 %
Trépail	51	471 km NE	424	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Fraigne'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
Verneuil-sur-Indre	37	147 km NE	466	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Melleran	79	20 km N	480	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Cherves	86	85 km N	529	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Eymouthiers	16	55 km SE	315	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Treteau	03	276 km E	520	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Les Touches-de-Périgny	17	21 km W	550	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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