Salles-de-Barbezieux

Charente · CC des 4B Sud Charente · INSEE 16360

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

Few services 25.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salles-de-Barbezieux (INSEE 16360) is in Charente (16), part of CC des 4B Sud Charente. Population 407 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 25.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 18,000 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.5	10	5.02
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.11

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 1 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]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE SALLES-DE-BARBEZIEUX). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (LEPAGRICOLE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (N'LEANIE). ^[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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE SALLES-DE-BARBEZIEUX	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	1	LEPAGRICOLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	N'LEANIE	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: 271 peak 2012: 448 2023: 407 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 448 (2012) → 407 (2023): -9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 406 (1990) → 407 (2023): 0.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 214, of which 8.9 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.8 km NWGP — 2.9 km NWFood shop — 3.0 km NWPharmacy — 3.0 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 (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire): 3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Salles-de-Barbezieux): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.7

Days at or below 0 °C 49.6

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SALLES DE BARB weather station, 1.4 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 73 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SALLES DE BARB, 1.4 km away at 74 m, over 16 summers. ^[10]

An average of 819 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SALLES DE BARB, 1.4 km away at 74 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16360/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16360/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16360/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16360/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16360
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
Boissey	01	410 km E	396	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 82 %
Saint-Sulpice-des-Rivoires	38	448 km E	425	28.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 32 % · humidity 64 %
Pulvérières	63	241 km E	419	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Bourbach-le-Haut	68	605 km NE	408	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 23 % · humidity 57 %
Vaudreuille	31	281 km SE	392	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Flin	54	616 km NE	398	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pulvérières	63	241 km E	419	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Vaudreuille	31	281 km SE	392	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Boissey	01	410 km E	396	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 82 %
Saint-Sulpice-des-Rivoires	38	448 km E	425	28.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 32 % · humidity 64 %
Bourbach-le-Haut	68	605 km NE	408	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 23 % · humidity 57 %
Flin	54	616 km NE	398	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Salles-de-Barbezieux'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 Rivière	33	59 km S	409	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Montsaunès	31	274 km S	455	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Mons	17	44 km N	445	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Agne	24	91 km SE	438	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Puybarban	33	100 km S	407	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Le Peyrat	09	322 km SE	495	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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