Ballans

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17031

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

Few services 25.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ballans (INSEE 17031) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 201 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 25.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 15,929 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.49	10	4.85
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.94

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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (CREPES ET GALETTES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CHEZ SYLVIE ET ELIZA). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BALLANS RP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	1	CREPES ET GALETTES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CHEZ SYLVIE ET ELIZA	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	BALLANS RP	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: 255 2023: 201 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 217 (2012) → 201 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 204 (1990) → 201 (2023): -1.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 141, of which 20.6 % second homes and 12.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.7 km SFood shop — 2.7 km NEBakery — 3.2 km SGP — 8.0 km NPharmacy — 8.2 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 (Macqueville): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Siecq): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 8.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Macqueville): 1.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 5

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. ^[11]

Measured at the MATHA weather station, 9.3 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 75 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LES-TOUCHES, 11.6 km away at 52 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 842 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MATHA, 9.3 km away at 38 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 — 17031/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17031/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17031/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17031/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17217
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17427
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17037
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
Pernand-Vergelesses	21	413 km E	237	25.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Laveline-du-Houx	88	585 km NE	213	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
La Truchère	71	406 km E	200	26.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Brives-sur-Charente	17	25 km SW	213	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Campagne-d'Armagnac	32	217 km S	213	21	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Ennordres	18	268 km NE	204	16.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Brives-sur-Charente	17	25 km SW	213	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Campagne-d'Armagnac	32	217 km S	213	21	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Ennordres	18	268 km NE	204	16.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
La Truchère	71	406 km E	200	26.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Pernand-Vergelesses	21	413 km E	237	25.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Laveline-du-Houx	88	585 km NE	213	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Ballans'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
Brives-sur-Charente	17	25 km SW	213	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Simon	16	21 km SE	233	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Juncalas	65	307 km S	174	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sermizelles	89	361 km NE	248	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
La Villedieu	17	29 km N	200	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Christoly-Médoc	33	69 km SW	297	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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