Arthenac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17020

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

Few services 29.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arthenac (INSEE 17020) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 334 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 29.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 18,024 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	0.51	10	5.09
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

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

2 × Restaurant (LE FOOD'ERIC). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE D'ARTHENAC). ^[3]

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 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	2	LE FOOD'ERIC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE D'ARTHENAC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 [3,4]
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: 398 2023: 334 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 337 (2012) → 334 (2023): -0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 331 (1990) → 334 (2023): 0.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 169, of which 3.6 % second homes and 13 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 1.0 km NEGP — 1.2 km EBakery — 1.6 km NEFood shop — 1.7 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 (Archiac): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Archiac): 1.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Archiac): 1.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Archiac): 1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.4

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

Muggy days a summer 12.7▸

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ARCHIAC weather station, 2.6 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 72 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ARCHIAC, 2.6 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ARCHIAC, 2.6 km away at 56 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 — 17020/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17020/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17020/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17020/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17020
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
Le Bignon-du-Maine	53	272 km N	322	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Palais	17	41 km S	337	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 91 %
Vaux	31	286 km SE	310	31.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Latoue	31	275 km S	310	29.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Beauregard-et-Bassac	24	95 km SE	309	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Escazeaux	82	215 km SE	287	29.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pierre-du-Palais	17	41 km S	337	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 91 %
Beauregard-et-Bassac	24	95 km SE	309	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Escazeaux	82	215 km SE	287	29.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 29 %
Le Bignon-du-Maine	53	272 km N	322	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 14 %
Latoue	31	275 km S	310	29.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Vaux	31	286 km SE	310	31.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Arthenac'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
Domezain-Berraute	64	249 km S	473	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Haut-de-Bosdarros	64	261 km S	322	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Priest-la-Roche	42	345 km E	341	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Michel	64	274 km S	290	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lys	64	265 km S	322	15.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Miramont-Sensacq	40	214 km S	342	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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