Beurlay

Charente-Maritime · CC Coeur de Saintonge · INSEE 17045

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

Partly served 46.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 79 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Beurlay (INSEE 17045) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Coeur de Saintonge. Population 994 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17045-beurlay

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 14,361 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.86	10	8.6
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHEZ CRYS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE 28). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE MAGISTEL BEURLAY). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser (MARLENE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CHEZ CRYS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	LE 28	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MAGISTEL BEURLAY	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	BEURLAY AP	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	MARLENE COIFFURE	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

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 604 peak 2017: 1,034 2023: 994 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,002 (2012) → 994 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 731 (1990) → 994 (2023): 36 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 488, of which 2.5 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.5 km SEFood shop — 0.5 km SEPharmacy — 4.2 km SWGP — 5.1 km NE 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 (Beurlay): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Beurlay): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bords): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pont-l'Abbé-d'Arnoult): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Beurlay): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.5

Days at or below 0 °C 21.8

Muggy days a summer 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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST AGNANT weather station, 11.9 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 16 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST AGNANT, 11.9 km away at 18 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 900 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BORDS, 5.1 km away at 6 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 — 17045/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2025-06— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/513fa813-f6e7-3cf8-ba99-0fdcf5997cf2— “Marché de Beurlay”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17045/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17045/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17045/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17045
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17053
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17284
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
Mahalon	29	365 km NW	1,021	36.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 97 % · humidity 50 %
Le Deschaux	39	501 km E	1,036	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 43 % · humidity 57 %
Terre-et-Marais	50	377 km N	1,271	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 78 %
Magnet	03	337 km E	1,053	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 31 % · humidity 50 %
Chaveyriat	01	457 km E	1,078	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Cheffois	85	90 km N	1,009	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cheffois	85	90 km N	1,009	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Magnet	03	337 km E	1,053	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 31 % · humidity 50 %
Mahalon	29	365 km NW	1,021	36.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 97 % · humidity 50 %
Terre-et-Marais	50	377 km N	1,271	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 78 %
Chaveyriat	01	457 km E	1,078	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Le Deschaux	39	501 km E	1,036	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 43 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Beurlay'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
Les Pujols	09	369 km SE	873	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Réaux sur Trèfle	17	56 km SE	765	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Rétaud	17	22 km SE	1,058	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Navailles-Angos	64	275 km S	1,545	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Sévignacq	64	273 km S	805	58.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-des-Pots	17	25 km SE	1,019	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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