Brie-sous-Archiac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17066

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

No daily shops 16/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brie-sous-Archiac (INSEE 17066) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 223 (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 16/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 16,607 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	0.31	10	3.11
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.14

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 BRIE-SOUS-ARCHIAC). ^[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 BRIE-SOUS-ARCHIAC	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 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: 337 2023: 223 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 261 (2012) → 223 (2023): -14.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 275 (1990) → 223 (2023): -18.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 140, of which 8.6 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.1 km SBakery — 3.2 km SGP — 5.1 km NPharmacy — 5.4 km N 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-Ciers-Champagne): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Ciers-Champagne): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Archiac): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Archiac): 5.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Brie-sous-Archiac): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.4

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

Muggy days a summer 12.7▸

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ARCHIAC weather station, 5.7 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 70 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ARCHIAC, 5.7 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ARCHIAC, 5.7 km away at 56 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 — 17066/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17066/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17066/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17066/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17316
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17066
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
Sedze-Maubecq	64	236 km S	225	19.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Frichoux	11	335 km SE	224	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Flers	62	572 km N	227	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 89 %
Baromesnil	76	518 km N	218	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 97 %
Villers-en-Argonne	51	558 km NE	213	16.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 14 %
Canté	09	286 km SE	222	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sedze-Maubecq	64	236 km S	225	19.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Canté	09	286 km SE	222	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Frichoux	11	335 km SE	224	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Baromesnil	76	518 km N	218	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 97 %
Villers-en-Argonne	51	558 km NE	213	16.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 14 %
Flers	62	572 km N	227	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 89 %

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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 Brie-sous-Archiac'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
Préchacq-Josbaig	64	248 km S	299	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Pinay	42	347 km E	286	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Montfort	64	238 km S	196	11.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Gomer	64	247 km S	298	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Etcharry	64	244 km S	144	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Coulonges	17	18 km NW	222	13.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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