Trois-Palis

Charente · CA du Grand Angoulême · INSEE 16388

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

Few services 33/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Trois-Palis (INSEE 16388) is in Charente (16), part of CA du Grand Angoulême. Population 944 (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/16388-trois-palis

Vitality score

Vitality score 33/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 14,691 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.87

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (API TROIS PALIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE G BRASSENS). ^[3]

1 × Library (POINT LECTURE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	API TROIS PALIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 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 PUBLIQUE G BRASSENS	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	1	POINT LECTURE	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]
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: 324 peak 2017: 955 2023: 944 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 880 (2012) → 944 (2023): 7.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 555 (1990) → 944 (2023): 70.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 396, of which 1.3 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.8 km SBakery — 1.9 km SPharmacy — 1.9 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 (Nersac): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Trois-Palis): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Nersac): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Nersac): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Trois-Palis): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.3

Days at or below 0 °C 40.5

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA COURONNE weather station, 4 km away at 58 m; the village itself is at 32 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LA COURONNE, 4 km away at 58 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 849 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA COURONNE, 4 km away at 58 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 — 16388/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16388/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16388/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16388/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16244
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16388
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
Sarrigné	49	209 km N	935	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Hardinvast	50	456 km N	928	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Sarcey	69	350 km E	980	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 50 % · humidity 79 %
La Chapelle du Lou du Lac	35	325 km NW	1,050	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Morgny-la-Pommeraye	76	441 km N	1,065	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pierre-en-Val	76	498 km N	1,088	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 92 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sarrigné	49	209 km N	935	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle du Lou du Lac	35	325 km NW	1,050	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Sarcey	69	350 km E	980	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 50 % · humidity 79 %
Morgny-la-Pommeraye	76	441 km N	1,065	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Hardinvast	50	456 km N	928	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pierre-en-Val	76	498 km N	1,088	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 92 %

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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 Trois-Palis'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
Beaussais-Vitré	79	74 km N	923	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Les Pineaux	85	143 km NW	688	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Vigoulet-Auzil	31	262 km SE	1,040	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Baurech	33	109 km S	907	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Aslonnes	86	92 km N	1,136	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Prailles-La Couarde	79	78 km N	929	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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