Arces

Charente-Maritime · CA Royan Atlantique · INSEE 17015

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

Few services 32/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arces (INSEE 17015) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA Royan Atlantique. Population 716 (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/17015-arces

Vitality score

Vitality score 32/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 16,292 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	25	0
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.98	10	9.76
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (CHEZ COCO · BV2 CONCEPT). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE D'ARCES). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,3]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING LA FERME DE CHEZ FILLEUX · CAMPING FLEURS DES CHAMPS). ^[4,3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	2	CHEZ COCO · BV2 CONCEPT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE D'ARCES	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	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 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	2	CAMPING LA FERME DE CHEZ FILLEUX · CAMPING FLEURS DES CHAMPS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 484 peak 2017: 753 2023: 716 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 691 (2012) → 716 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 485 (1990) → 716 (2023): 47.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 509, of which 25 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.9 km NEFood shop — 3.9 km NEPharmacy — 3.9 km NEGP — 4.2 km NE 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 (Cozes): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cozes): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Cozes): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cozes): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arces): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.4

Days at or below 0 °C 23.3

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ROYAN-MEDIS weather station, 12.6 km away at 12 m; the village itself is at 20 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ROYAN-MEDIS, 12.6 km away at 12 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 841 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ROYAN-MEDIS, 12.6 km away at 12 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17015/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17015/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17015/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17015/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17131
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17015
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
Les Clefs	74	559 km E	714	29.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Hautecourt-Romanèche	01	491 km E	748	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Adainville	78	400 km NE	673	21.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 79 %
Les Baux-de-Breteuil	27	391 km N	673	26.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 51 %
Les Moitiers-d'Allonne	50	434 km N	742	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 81 %
Germigny-des-Prés	45	349 km NE	696	30.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Germigny-des-Prés	45	349 km NE	696	30.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Les Baux-de-Breteuil	27	391 km N	673	26.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 51 %
Adainville	78	400 km NE	673	21.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 79 %
Les Moitiers-d'Allonne	50	434 km N	742	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 81 %
Hautecourt-Romanèche	01	491 km E	748	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Les Clefs	74	559 km E	714	29.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Arces'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
Le Chay	17	10 km N	840	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sarrouilles	65	270 km S	551	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
La Vallée	17	38 km N	707	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sulpice-d'Arnoult	17	28 km N	924	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Courniou	34	366 km SE	610	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien	17	29 km N	604	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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