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Anais

Charente-Maritime · CC Aunis Sud · INSEE 17007

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

No daily shops 15.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Anais (INSEE 17007) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Aunis Sud. Population 314 (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/17007-anais

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 17,926 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 trend0.86108.59
Housing mix0.8854.41

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 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”.

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

1 × Hairdresser. [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]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 197 peak 2012: 326 2023: 314 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 326 (2012) → 314 (2023): -3.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 231 (1990) → 314 (2023): 35.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 152, of which 5.9 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.3 km SE (Bouhet)Primary school — 2.4 km NE (Le Gué-d'Alleré)Food shop — 2.8 km SE (Bouhet)GP — 4.5 km N (Saint-Sauveur-d'Aunis)Pharmacy — 6.5 km NW (Nuaillé-d'Aunis)
Bakery — 2.3 km SEPrimary school — 2.4 km NEFood shop — 2.8 km SEGP — 4.5 km NPharmacy — 6.5 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 (Bouhet): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bouhet): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Sauveur-d'Aunis): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Nuaillé-d'Aunis): 6.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Le Gué-d'Alleré): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the SURGERES weather station, 14.7 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 7 m. [12]

An average of 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at SURGERES, 14.7 km away at 25 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17007/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17007/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17007/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17007/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17057
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17396
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17267
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17186
  12. 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
Oinville-sous-Auneau28322 km NE31313.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Crépand21426 km NE3159.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 77 %
Haussignémont51510 km NE31116.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Jallanges21470 km E31012.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 88 %
Broussy-le-Grand51461 km NE30913.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 95 %
Dosches10455 km NE31214.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 88 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Oinville-sous-Auneau28322 km NE31313.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Crépand21426 km NE3159.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 77 %
Dosches10455 km NE31214.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 88 %
Broussy-le-Grand51461 km NE30913.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 95 %
Jallanges21470 km E31012.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 88 %
Haussignémont51510 km NE31116.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %

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