Biron

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17047

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

Few services 25.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Biron (INSEE 17047) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 243 (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 25.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 17,055 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.48	10	4.76
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.46

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE AZURE D'ESCHER BIRON). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE AZURE D'ESCHER BIRON	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	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	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: 219 peak 1990: 249 2023: 243 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 227 (2012) → 243 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 249 (1990) → 243 (2023): -2.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 129, of which 5.4 % second homes and 12.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.2 km SBakery — 4.2 km SEGP — 5.2 km WPharmacy — 6.2 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 (Chadenac): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chadenac): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pons): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pons): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Biron): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.5

Days at or below 0 °C 55.2

Muggy days a summer 9.1

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PONS weather station, 3 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 47 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 11.8 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 814 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PONS, 3 km away at 25 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 — 17047/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17047/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17047/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17047/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17078
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17283
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17047
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
Birac	33	131 km S	240	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Munster	57	670 km NE	237	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Gabat	64	249 km S	274	28.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Beaurepaire-sur-Sambre	59	593 km NE	272	26.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Tangry	62	584 km N	265	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fourques	27	417 km N	277	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 97 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Birac	33	131 km S	240	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Gabat	64	249 km S	274	28.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fourques	27	417 km N	277	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 97 %
Tangry	62	584 km N	265	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Beaurepaire-sur-Sambre	59	593 km NE	272	26.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Munster	57	670 km NE	237	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Biron'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
Marsac	65	253 km S	235	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Hours	64	262 km S	231	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lucgarier	64	260 km S	273	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gayan	65	255 km S	264	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bescat	64	272 km S	255	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Géry	24	91 km SE	239	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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