Archingeay

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17017

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

Few services 24.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Archingeay (INSEE 17017) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 765 (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/17017-archingeay

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 15,935 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.92	10	9.19
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.92

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE D'ARCHINGEAY). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ARCHINGEAY AP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE D'ARCHINGEAY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ARCHINGEAY AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 536 2023: 765 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 682 (2012) → 765 (2023): 12.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 539 (1990) → 765 (2023): 41.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 407, of which 10.8 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.4 km EPharmacy — 3.8 km NBakery — 3.9 km NGP — 4.1 km N 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 (Tonnay-Boutonne): 3.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Nouillers): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Tonnay-Boutonne): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Tonnay-Boutonne): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Archingeay): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.1

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 6.4

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LES NOUILLERS weather station, 1.4 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 27 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SAINTES, 19.4 km away at 38 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 859 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LES NOUILLERS, 1.4 km away at 18 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17017/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17017/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17017/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17017/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17448
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17266
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17017
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
Pruillé-l'Éguillé	72	229 km N	801	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 100 %
Cagnotte	40	261 km S	784	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 29 %
Avezé	72	276 km N	690	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Cybardeaux	16	56 km E	771	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Dampniat	19	201 km SE	716	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bressieux	38	471 km E	786	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 59 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Cybardeaux	16	56 km E	771	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Dampniat	19	201 km SE	716	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Pruillé-l'Éguillé	72	229 km N	801	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 100 %
Cagnotte	40	261 km S	784	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 29 %
Avezé	72	276 km N	690	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bressieux	38	471 km E	786	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 59 % · 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 Archingeay'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
Brûlain	79	42 km NE	735	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just	18	273 km NE	656	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Réparsac	16	43 km SE	631	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Loisy	71	447 km E	693	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Marnay	86	96 km NE	713	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
La Rochette	16	80 km E	523	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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