Beauvais-sur-Matha

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17037

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 36.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Beauvais-sur-Matha (INSEE 17037) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 638 (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/17037-beauvais-sur-matha

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 16,783 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.49	10	4.89
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.2

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (GUIBERTEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE BEAUVAIS-SUR-MATHA). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (XAVIER MERGANS, MÉDECIN · MARION COUPEZ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE IMBERT BELIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	GUIBERTEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 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 DE BEAUVAIS-SUR-MATHA	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	XAVIER MERGANS, MÉDECIN · MARION COUPEZ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE IMBERT BELIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 667 peak 1975: 715 2023: 638 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 672 (2012) → 638 (2023): -5.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 645 (1990) → 638 (2023): -1.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 399, of which 8 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 4.0 km SE 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 (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bresdon): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25

Days at or below 0 °C 48

Muggy days a summer 4.1

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 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LES-TOUCHES weather station, 5.2 km away at 52 m; the village itself is at 129 m. ^[10]

The village sits 77 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LES-TOUCHES, 5.2 km away at 52 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 747 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LES-TOUCHES, 5.2 km away at 52 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 — 17037/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17037/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17037/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17037/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17037
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17062
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
Morteaux-Coulibœuf	14	339 km N	601	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Mailly-Maillet	80	511 km NE	628	36	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Ouarville	28	312 km NE	548	37.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Mazères-sur-Salat	31	319 km S	628	42.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Carresse-Cassaber	64	274 km S	664	51.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %
Breuvannes-en-Bassigny	52	504 km NE	632	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Carresse-Cassaber	64	274 km S	664	51.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %
Ouarville	28	312 km NE	548	37.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Mazères-sur-Salat	31	319 km S	628	42.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Morteaux-Coulibœuf	14	339 km N	601	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Breuvannes-en-Bassigny	52	504 km NE	632	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Mailly-Maillet	80	511 km NE	628	36	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Beauvais-sur-Matha'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
Néré	17	11 km N	669	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Encausse-les-Thermes	31	323 km S	641	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Dolus-le-Sec	37	165 km NE	651	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Vanault-les-Dames	51	498 km NE	376	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Sommières-du-Clain	86	61 km NE	729	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Bouniagues	24	137 km SE	578	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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