Bran

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17061

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

No daily shops 12.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bran (INSEE 17061) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 137 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17061-bran

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 13,366 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.54	10	5.38
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.63

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 1 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]

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

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. ^[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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE SALLE POLYVALENTE	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	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: 196 2023: 137 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 124 (2012) → 137 (2023): 10.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 132 (1990) → 137 (2023): 3.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 80, of which 13.8 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.2 km NEBakery — 4.4 km NEGP — 4.4 km NEPharmacy — 4.5 km NEFood shop — 5.2 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 (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chevanceaux): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.2

Days at or below 0 °C 37

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 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, 14.4 km away at 89 m; the village itself is at 75 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 16.8 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[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, 14.4 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 — 17061/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17061/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17061/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17061/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16025
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17104
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
Laveissenet	15	249 km E	137	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Arailles	32	198 km S	134	11.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Sabazan	32	184 km S	126	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Duffort	32	229 km S	121	9.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Étalante	21	461 km NE	126	8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Arblade-le-Bas	32	183 km S	134	15	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Arblade-le-Bas	32	183 km S	134	15	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Sabazan	32	184 km S	126	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Arailles	32	198 km S	134	11.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Duffort	32	229 km S	121	9.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Laveissenet	15	249 km E	137	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Étalante	21	461 km NE	126	8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Bran'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
Bars	32	209 km S	123	9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vallier	16	17 km E	139	7.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Auriolles	33	72 km S	136	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Gavarret-sur-Aulouste	32	190 km SE	136	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Herré	40	150 km S	143	11.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Agudelle	17	17 km W	131	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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