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Aumagne

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17025

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

Few services 32.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aumagne (INSEE 17025) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 694 (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/17025-aumagne

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 56 % of the 16,430 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
Social0.752014.97
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture0.6353.16
Population trend0.59105.95
Housing mix0.7253.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA TABLE DES ILES). [3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE MAGNE). [4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). [3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. [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]
Restaurant1LA TABLE DES ILESINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar2LE MAGNEINSEE SIRENE 2 [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 postale1AUMAGNE APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 737 2023: 694 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 707 (2012) → 694 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 634 (1990) → 694 (2023): 9.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 417, of which 14.1 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.0 km S (Aujac)Bakery — 4.8 km N (Varaize)GP — 4.8 km N (Varaize)Food shop — 5.7 km E (Blanzac-lès-Matha)Pharmacy — 7.0 km E (Matha)
Primary school — 4.0 km SBakery — 4.8 km NGP — 4.8 km NFood shop — 5.7 km EPharmacy — 7.0 km E 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 (Varaize): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Blanzac-lès-Matha): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Varaize): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Matha): 7 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Aujac): 4 km to the south (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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the MATHA weather station, 7.3 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 33 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at BURIE, 10.8 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. [12]

An average of 842 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at MATHA, 7.3 km away at 38 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17025/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17025/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17025/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17025/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17459
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17048
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17224
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17023
  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
Champdor-Corcelles01465 km E66530.5Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Gramond12282 km SE55133.7Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Ousson-sur-Loire45309 km NE69643Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 80 %
Vaux-et-Chantegrue25521 km E68941Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Landrais1741 km NW79735.6Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Neuillay-les-Bois36175 km NE66039.8Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Landrais1741 km NW79735.6Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Neuillay-les-Bois36175 km NE66039.8Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Gramond12282 km SE55133.7Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Ousson-sur-Loire45309 km NE69643Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 80 %
Champdor-Corcelles01465 km E66530.5Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Vaux-et-Chantegrue25521 km E68941Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · 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 Aumagne'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Le Vigeant8690 km NE65736.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauvant1717 km SW51527.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Civrac-en-Médoc3371 km SW63434.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Labarthe-Inard31324 km S87143.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Escource40197 km S82452.7Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Réaux sur Trèfle1745 km S76529.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %