Saint-Séverin

Charente · CC Lavalette Tude Dronne · INSEE 16350

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

Partly served 59.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Séverin (INSEE 16350) is in Charente (16), part of CC Lavalette Tude Dronne. Population 784 (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/16350-saint-severin

Vitality score

Vitality score 59.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 97 % of the 15,755 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.51	10	5.09
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BEAUDEAU-GAREL). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SPAR). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LA TRATTORIA · L'EPICURIEN · DILMUN INDIAN RESTAURANT). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR LE COMMERCE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE SAINT-SEVERIN). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PHILIPPE LAGROT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE DU BOURG). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Hairdresser (SEVERINE COIFFURE · SALON LE SAINT SEVERIN · LE COIN DU BARBIER). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BEAUDEAU-GAREL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	SPAR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 TRATTORIA · L'EPICURIEN · DILMUN INDIAN RESTAURANT	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	BAR LE COMMERCE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE SAINT-SEVERIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	PHILIPPE LAGROT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL PHARMACIE DU BOURG	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINT SEVERIN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	SEVERINE COIFFURE · SALON LE SAINT SEVERIN · LE COIN DU BARBIER	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 824 2023: 784 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 769 (2012) → 784 (2023): 2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 777 (1990) → 784 (2023): 0.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 567, of which 20.6 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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-Séverin): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Séverin): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Séverin): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Séverin): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Séverin): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.8

Days at or below 0 °C 42.3

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the BORS weather station, 11.3 km away at 98 m; the village itself is at 102 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BORS, 11.3 km away at 98 m, over 17 summers. ^[9]

An average of 768 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BORS, 11.3 km away at 98 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 — 16350/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16350/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16350/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16350/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16350
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
Lyons-la-Forêt	27	464 km N	756	60.4	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 85 %
Culan	18	212 km NE	779	58.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Nectaire	63	216 km E	822	65.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Aspres-sur-Buëch	05	441 km E	828	51.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Aulaire	19	89 km E	773	56.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Vouvant	85	161 km NW	829	62.2	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Aulaire	19	89 km E	773	56.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Vouvant	85	161 km NW	829	62.2	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Culan	18	212 km NE	779	58.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Nectaire	63	216 km E	822	65.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Aspres-sur-Buëch	05	441 km E	828	51.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Lyons-la-Forêt	27	464 km N	756	60.4	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 85 %

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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-Séverin'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
Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde	17	78 km W	912	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Prat-Bonrepaux	09	261 km S	888	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Availles-Limouzine	86	95 km N	1,312	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Gurson	24	42 km S	653	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Persac	86	120 km N	717	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Bourdeilles	24	26 km E	785	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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