Boscamnant

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17055

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 9 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Boscamnant (INSEE 17055) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 330 (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 11/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 9 % of the 18,033 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.53	10	5.28
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.04

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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	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	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: 331 peak 2012: 418 2023: 330 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 418 (2012) → 330 (2023): -21.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 321 (1990) → 330 (2023): 2.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 9.6 % second homes and 14.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.5 km WFood shop — 5.9 km SEBakery — 6.3 km SEPharmacy — 6.4 km SEGP — 6.5 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 (Saint-Aigulin): 6.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Aigulin): 5.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Aigulin): 6.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Aigulin): 6.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Fouilloux): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.2

Days at or below 0 °C 37

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 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MONTLIEU_SAPC weather station, 17.6 km away at 89 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[10]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONTLIEU_SAPC, 17.6 km away at 89 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 — 17055/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17055/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17055/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17055/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17309
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17167
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-Senier-de-Beuvron	50	387 km N	324	10.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Léger-sur-Sarthe	61	369 km N	320	10.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 88 %
Lamblore	28	389 km N	318	9.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 43 %
Saint-Léon	47	104 km S	329	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 96 %
Poussignac	47	94 km S	309	15	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 81 %
Magneville	50	485 km N	321	13.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Poussignac	47	94 km S	309	15	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Léon	47	104 km S	329	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 96 %
Saint-Léger-sur-Sarthe	61	369 km N	320	10.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron	50	387 km N	324	10.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 86 %
Lamblore	28	389 km N	318	9.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 43 %
Magneville	50	485 km N	321	13.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 93 %

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