Vivant· Is the village alive?

Vervant

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16401

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 10.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vervant (INSEE 16401) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 147 (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/16401-vervant

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 13,935 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.47104.67
Housing mix0.954.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 138 peak 1975: 152 2023: 147 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 147 (2012) → 147 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 152 (1990) → 147 (2023): -3.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 79, of which 5.1 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.7 km SW (Xambes)Primary school — 1.8 km SW (Xambes)GP — 3.3 km SE (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe)Pharmacy — 3.5 km S (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe)Bakery — 4.0 km S (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe)
Food shop — 1.7 km SWPrimary school — 1.8 km SWGP — 3.3 km SEPharmacy — 3.5 km SBakery — 4.0 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 (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe): 4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Xambes): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Xambes): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the MONTIGNAC weather station, 6.5 km away at 63 m; the village itself is at 90 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at MONTIGNAC, 6.5 km away at 63 m, over 20 summers. [10]

An average of 827 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at MONTIGNAC, 6.5 km away at 63 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16401/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16401/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16401/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16401/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 16295
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 16423
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Rémelfang57612 km NE14710.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 54 %
Montigny54586 km NE14712.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Louet-sur-Seulles14368 km N14811.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Dorengt02532 km NE1489.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 73 %
Reherrey54583 km NE14614.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 86 %
Jésonville88521 km NE14815.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Louet-sur-Seulles14368 km N14811.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Jésonville88521 km NE14815.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Dorengt02532 km NE1489.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 73 %
Reherrey54583 km NE14614.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 86 %
Montigny54586 km NE14712.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 86 %
Rémelfang57612 km NE14710.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 54 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Vervant'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villiers-sur-Chizé7944 km NW15610.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Les Angles65306 km S13210.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Lichères-près-Aigremont89354 km NE15413No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Montégut-Bourjac31292 km S12913.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Groux167.8 km NE13613No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Voissay1758 km W17317.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %