Verteuil-sur-Charente

Charente · CC Val de Charente · INSEE 16400

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

Partly served 53.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Verteuil-sur-Charente (INSEE 16400) is in Charente (16), part of CC Val de Charente. Population 580 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/16400-verteuil-sur-charente

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 17,296 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	0.42	25	10.54
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	0.31	10	3.12
Housing mix	0.42	5	2.1

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). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'ECHOPPE DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (CAFE PORTEBLEUE · JEUX DE POTS · SAS LA CITE DES ARTS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE BISTROT DES DOUVES). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE VERTEUIL-SUR-CHARENTE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BENALI BOUHADJAR, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VERTEUIL SUR CHARENTE AP). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (PROUHET ANNICK). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'ECHOPPE DU CHATEAU	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	3	CAFE PORTEBLEUE · JEUX DE POTS · SAS LA CITE DES ARTS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE BISTROT DES DOUVES	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE VERTEUIL-SUR-CHARENTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	BENALI BOUHADJAR, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	VERTEUIL SUR CHARENTE 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	PROUHET ANNICK	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day (reported, unverified): Sunday. No source says whether it is weekly or monthly. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 802 2023: 580 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 604 (2012) → 580 (2023): -4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 714 (1990) → 580 (2023): -18.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 480, of which 29 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.6 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 (Verteuil-sur-Charente): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Verteuil-sur-Charente): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Verteuil-sur-Charente): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ruffec): 5.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Verteuil-sur-Charente): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.9

Days at or below 0 °C 45.6

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the RUFFEC weather station, 6 km away at 121 m; the village itself is at 90 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at RUFFEC, 6 km away at 121 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

An average of 804 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at RUFFEC, 6 km away at 121 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16400/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.verteuil-charente.fr/— “un marché dominical”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16400/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16400/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16400/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16400
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16292
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
Lagrasse	11	373 km SE	554	59.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %
Sarrancolin	65	336 km S	546	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Venaco	2B	826 km SE	644	60.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Nectaire	63	219 km E	822	65.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Estaing	12	248 km SE	502	57.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Thiézac	15	218 km SE	590	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Thiézac	15	218 km SE	590	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Nectaire	63	219 km E	822	65.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Estaing	12	248 km SE	502	57.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sarrancolin	65	336 km S	546	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Lagrasse	11	373 km SE	554	59.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %
Venaco	2B	826 km SE	644	60.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Verteuil-sur-Charente'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-Saulge	58	280 km NE	650	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Châtel-Censoir	89	311 km NE	561	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Santenay	21	358 km E	820	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Honoré-les-Bains	58	295 km E	678	58.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Châteaudouble	83	558 km SE	476	51	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Mers-sur-Indre	36	147 km NE	659	51	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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