Authon-Ébéon

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17026

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

No daily shops 18.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Authon-Ébéon (INSEE 17026) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 410 (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 18.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 18,015 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	0.39	10	3.91
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.93

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 PRIMAIRE D'AUTHON-EBEON). ^[3]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

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]
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 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE D'AUTHON-EBEON	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	1	AUTHON EBEON 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 [3,4]
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: 526 2023: 410 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 393 (2012) → 410 (2023): 4.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 460 (1990) → 410 (2023): -10.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 262, of which 10.7 % second homes and 16 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.9 km WBakery — 3.7 km SGP — 5.7 km WPharmacy — 5.8 km W 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 (Migron): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bercloux): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Brizambourg): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Brizambourg): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Authon-Ébéon): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.4

Days at or below 0 °C 31.5

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BURIE weather station, 6 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 23 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at BURIE, 6 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BURIE, 6 km away at 56 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17026/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17026/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17026/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17026/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17070
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17026
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
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	210 km NE	396	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Courcelles-la-Forêt	72	219 km N	397	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Bazoches-au-Houlme	61	332 km N	449	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 69 %
Caupenne	40	241 km S	402	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 93 %
Estivaux	19	158 km E	403	21.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 18 % · humidity 57 %
Le Châtenet-en-Dognon	87	149 km E	407	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 53 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Châtenet-en-Dognon	87	149 km E	407	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 53 %
Estivaux	19	158 km E	403	21.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 18 % · humidity 57 %
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	210 km NE	396	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Courcelles-la-Forêt	72	219 km N	397	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Caupenne	40	241 km S	402	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 93 %
Bazoches-au-Houlme	61	332 km N	449	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 69 %

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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 Authon-Ébéon'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
Criteuil-la-Magdeleine	16	36 km SE	405	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Monségur	47	181 km SE	397	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Noilhan	32	277 km SE	388	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Lachaise	16	37 km S	318	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Sendets	33	159 km S	354	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Radegonde	33	119 km S	408	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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