Saint-Romain

Charente · CC Lavalette Tude Dronne · INSEE 16347

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 25.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Romain (INSEE 16347) is in Charente (16), part of CC Lavalette Tude Dronne. Population 514 (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/16347-saint-romain

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 17,728 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.68	10	6.76
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES FERMIERS GASTRONOMES). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE CAMILLE DESVERGNES). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	LES FERMIERS GASTRONOMES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE CAMILLE DESVERGNES	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	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: 506 peak 2012: 553 2023: 514 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 553 (2012) → 514 (2023): -7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 437 (1990) → 514 (2023): 17.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 347, of which 17 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.9 km EGP — 2.0 km SEPharmacy — 2.1 km EBakery — 6.8 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 (Petit-Bersac): 6.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aubeterre-sur-Dronne): 1.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Aubeterre-sur-Dronne): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Aubeterre-sur-Dronne): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

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

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 7.4

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. ^[11]

Measured at the ST QUENTIN DE C weather station, 7 km away at 76 m; the village itself is at 93 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BORS, 8.2 km away at 98 m, over 17 summers. ^[11]

An average of 862 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST QUENTIN DE C, 7 km away at 76 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 — 16347/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16347/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16347/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16347/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 24323
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16020
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16347
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
Avressieux	73	434 km E	544	29.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Beaurepaire	76	488 km N	490	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
La Vieille-Lyre	27	407 km N	648	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 81 %
Oriol-en-Royans	26	403 km E	518	35.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Coux	17	43 km W	480	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Upaix	05	466 km E	494	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 32 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Coux	17	43 km W	480	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Oriol-en-Royans	26	403 km E	518	35.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
La Vieille-Lyre	27	407 km N	648	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 81 %
Avressieux	73	434 km E	544	29.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Upaix	05	466 km E	494	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 32 % · humidity 50 %
Beaurepaire	76	488 km N	490	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %

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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-Romain'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
Varennes	24	65 km SE	458	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Bieujac	33	86 km S	654	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Vallègue	31	242 km SE	509	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Massac-Séran	81	225 km SE	523	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Vallesvilles	31	222 km SE	462	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Triac-Lautrait	16	51 km NW	462	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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