Xambes

Charente · CC Coeur de Charente · INSEE 16423

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

Few services 31.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Xambes (INSEE 16423) is in Charente (16), part of CC Coeur de Charente. Population 257 (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/16423-xambes

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 85 % of the 17,348 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.3	10	3.03
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE ROTURIER). ^[4,3]

1 × Restaurant (LE RELAIS DES CHASSEURS). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE PAUL BUARD). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (XAMBES AP). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE ROTURIER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	LE RELAIS DES CHASSEURS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE PAUL BUARD	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	XAMBES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 300 peak 1990: 320 2023: 257 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 299 (2012) → 257 (2023): -14 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 320 (1990) → 257 (2023): -19.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 153, of which 3.9 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.5 km SEPharmacy — 3.7 km SEBakery — 3.9 km SE 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): 3.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Xambes): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Saint-Amant-de-Boixe): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Xambes): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.5

Days at or below 0 °C 43.1

Muggy days a summer 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 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, 5.4 km away at 63 m; the village itself is at 97 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at MONTIGNAC, 5.4 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, 5.4 km away at 63 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16423/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16423/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16423/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 16423/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16295
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16423
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
Mésandans	25	510 km NE	233	39.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 66 %
Lonzac	17	46 km SW	267	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 29 %
Brossainc	07	360 km E	262	37.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Ménil-sur-Belvitte	88	574 km NE	288	36	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Mont-Saint-Vincent	71	348 km E	308	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Maizières	70	487 km NE	317	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lonzac	17	46 km SW	267	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 29 %
Mont-Saint-Vincent	71	348 km E	308	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Brossainc	07	360 km E	262	37.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Maizières	70	487 km NE	317	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Mésandans	25	510 km NE	233	39.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 66 %
Ménil-sur-Belvitte	88	574 km NE	288	36	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 55 % · 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 Xambes'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
Villeneuve-Saint-Salves	89	352 km NE	256	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Fuissé	71	361 km E	347	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Champvoux	58	272 km NE	282	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Poursay-Garnaud	17	46 km W	309	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Macqueville	17	25 km W	297	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Audes	03	202 km E	402	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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