Champdolent

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17085

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

Few services 21.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Champdolent (INSEE 17085) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 425 (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 21.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 17,983 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.8	10	7.96
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (BT). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1	BT	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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]
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: 375 2023: 425 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 406 (2012) → 425 (2023): 4.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 328 (1990) → 425 (2023): 29.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 220, of which 12.7 % second homes and 3.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.4 km SGP — 2.4 km SPrimary school — 2.6 km SBakery — 5.1 km NPharmacy — 7.6 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 (Lussant): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bords): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bords): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tonnay-Charente): 7.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bords): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.1

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LES NOUILLERS weather station, 8.8 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 9 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST AGNANT, 14.8 km away at 18 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 900 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BORDS, 2.2 km away at 6 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 — 17085/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17085/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17085/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17085/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17216
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17053
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17449
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
Savigny	50	351 km N	430	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 62 % · humidity 50 %
Croisilles	28	354 km NE	422	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 50 %
Aucey-la-Plaine	50	295 km N	412	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %
Usclas-d'Hérault	34	430 km SE	439	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin-sur-Yonne	89	391 km NE	434	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Bosc-Hyons	76	434 km NE	414	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 82 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aucey-la-Plaine	50	295 km N	412	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %
Savigny	50	351 km N	430	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 62 % · humidity 50 %
Croisilles	28	354 km NE	422	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Aubin-sur-Yonne	89	391 km NE	434	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Usclas-d'Hérault	34	430 km SE	439	26.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Bosc-Hyons	76	434 km NE	414	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 82 %

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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 Champdolent'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
Saint-Coutant-le-Grand	17	4.6 km NE	417	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Esclassan-Labastide	32	298 km S	335	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Souméras	17	75 km SE	381	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Plassac-Rouffiac	16	80 km SE	371	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Coust	18	274 km E	415	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Salles-de-Barbezieux	16	74 km SE	407	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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