Moulins-sur-Tardoire

Charente · CC La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord · INSEE 16406

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

Few services 20.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moulins-sur-Tardoire (INSEE 16406) is in Charente (16), part of CC La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord. Population 821 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Rancogne (16274). ^[3]

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/16406-moulins-sur-tardoire

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 15,487 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.8	10	7.97
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.46

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 538 2023: 821 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 757 (2012) → 821 (2023): 8.5 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 633 (1990) → 821 (2023): 29.7 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 429, of which 5.4 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.2 km WFood shop — 1.9 km NEPrimary school — 1.9 km NEGP — 5.3 km WPharmacy — 5.5 km SW 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 (Moulins-sur-Tardoire): 1.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Sornin): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Pranzac): 5.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Chazelles): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[12]

Primary school (Saint-Sornin): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35.2

Days at or below 0 °C 47.2

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the ORGEDEUIL weather station, 4.4 km away at 134 m; the village itself is at 99 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at MARTHON, 8.2 km away at 120 m, over 23 summers. ^[13]

An average of 1,011 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at ORGEDEUIL, 4.4 km away at 134 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16406/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16406/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16406/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16406/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16406
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16353
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16093
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
Mittainvilliers-Vérigny	28	321 km N	801	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Folleville	76	427 km N	785	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Contamine-Sarzin	74	432 km E	733	23	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Écuires	62	539 km N	682	14.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-Canivet	14	366 km N	720	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Soulosse-sous-Saint-Élophe	88	504 km NE	649	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mittainvilliers-Vérigny	28	321 km N	801	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-Canivet	14	366 km N	720	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Folleville	76	427 km N	785	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Contamine-Sarzin	74	432 km E	733	23	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Soulosse-sous-Saint-Élophe	88	504 km NE	649	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Écuires	62	539 km N	682	14.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Moulins-sur-Tardoire'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
Arboys en Bugey	01	406 km E	710	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Thomas-en-Royans	26	387 km E	569	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Taïx	81	229 km SE	553	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chabrillan	26	370 km E	752	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Varennes	82	215 km SE	627	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Bonnefamille	38	366 km E	1,114	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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