Bercloux

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17042

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

Few services 22.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bercloux (INSEE 17042) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 448 (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 22.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 17,917 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.94	10	9.36
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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 food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	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: 381 peak 2012: 457 2023: 448 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 457 (2012) → 448 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 312 (1990) → 448 (2023): 43.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 227, of which 5.7 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 1.4 km SWPrimary school — 1.5 km SPharmacy — 1.6 km SWFood shop — 2.3 km SEBakery — 4.7 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 (Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche): 4.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bercloux): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Brizambourg): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Brizambourg): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Brizambourg): 1.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the BURIE weather station, 6.8 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 48 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BURIE, 6.8 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BURIE, 6.8 km away at 56 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 — 17042/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17042/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17042/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17042/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17344
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17070
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
Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs	14	368 km N	453	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Castandet	40	226 km S	425	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Edmond	71	364 km E	414	16.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Médard	16	45 km SE	303	21.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Pouant	86	142 km NE	407	8.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Gandelain	61	295 km N	408	10.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Médard	16	45 km SE	303	21.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Pouant	86	142 km NE	407	8.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Castandet	40	226 km S	425	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Gandelain	61	295 km N	408	10.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Edmond	71	364 km E	414	16.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs	14	368 km N	453	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · 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 Bercloux'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
Bécheresse	16	57 km SE	290	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Semoussac	17	51 km S	386	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Thézac	17	31 km SW	331	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montpezat	32	294 km SE	237	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Monségur	47	184 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	279 km SE	388	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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