Bougneau

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17056

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

Few services 23.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 29 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bougneau (INSEE 17056) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 655 (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/17056-bougneau

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 29 % of the 16,732 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.96	10	9.56
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.37

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE BOUGNEAU). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE BOUGNEAU	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 490 2023: 655 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 589 (2012) → 655 (2023): 11.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 450 (1990) → 655 (2023): 45.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 331, of which 6.3 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.9 km SWGP — 3.1 km SWFood shop — 3.3 km SWPharmacy — 4.2 km SW 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 (Pons): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pons): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pons): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pons): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bougneau): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[10]

Measured at the PONS weather station, 3.1 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 26 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 8.7 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 814 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PONS, 3.1 km away at 25 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

45 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 159,000 € — 1,423 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Charente-Maritime is 2,339 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17056/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17056/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17056/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17056/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17283
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17056
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Saunay	37	250 km NE	640	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Ondras	38	472 km E	668	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 53 % · humidity 50 %
Romans	01	433 km E	640	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 92 %
Collemiers	89	403 km NE	663	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Martin-des-Champs	77	458 km NE	661	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 43 %
Crochte	59	631 km N	659	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 46 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saunay	37	250 km NE	640	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 43 %
Collemiers	89	403 km NE	663	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Romans	01	433 km E	640	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 92 %
Saint-Martin-des-Champs	77	458 km NE	661	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Ondras	38	472 km E	668	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 53 % · humidity 50 %
Crochte	59	631 km N	659	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 46 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Bougneau'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
Moragne	17	48 km NW	536	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Siarrouy	65	257 km S	453	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Andoins	64	256 km S	727	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Avy	17	4.9 km S	510	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Aurensan	65	259 km S	764	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lagarde	65	258 km S	530	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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