Chatenet

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17095

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

No daily shops 17.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chatenet (INSEE 17095) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 221 (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 17.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 16,569 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.63	10	6.33
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PATISSERIE JYL). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	PATISSERIE JYL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 275 2023: 221 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 236 (2012) → 221 (2023): -6.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 195 (1990) → 221 (2023): 13.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 139, of which 13.7 % second homes and 8.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.4 km EPrimary school — 3.3 km NWGP — 4.1 km EFood shop — 4.4 km SEPharmacy — 4.6 km E 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 (Chatenet): 1.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pouillac): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chevanceaux): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Chevanceaux): 4.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sousmoulins): 3.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Measured at the MONTLIEU_SAPC weather station, 8.7 km away at 89 m; the village itself is at 90 m. ^[12]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MONTLIEU_SAPC, 8.7 km away at 89 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17095/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17095/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17095/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17095/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17095
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17287
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17104
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17433
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
Consac	17	27 km NW	236	17.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 89 %
Arnaud-Guilhem	31	258 km S	230	19	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Prix-lès-Arnay	21	421 km NE	203	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 51 %
Ferrensac	47	103 km SE	205	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 85 %
Gigors-et-Lozeron	26	428 km E	225	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 64 %
Lailly	89	438 km NE	199	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 58 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Consac	17	27 km NW	236	17.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 89 %
Ferrensac	47	103 km SE	205	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 85 %
Arnaud-Guilhem	31	258 km S	230	19	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Prix-lès-Arnay	21	421 km NE	203	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 51 %
Gigors-et-Lozeron	26	428 km E	225	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 64 %
Lailly	89	438 km NE	199	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 58 %

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