Chermignac

Charente-Maritime · CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo" · INSEE 17102

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 36.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chermignac (INSEE 17102) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo". Population 1,265 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/17102-chermignac

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 12,900 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.81	10	8.07
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DU LITTORAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE PLAN B). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE PLAN B). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DOCTEUR MENUDIER). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (CHANGER D'HAIR). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1	EPICERIE DU LITTORAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LE PLAN B	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE PLAN B	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DOCTEUR MENUDIER	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	2	CHANGER D'HAIR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 556 peak 2012: 1,276 2023: 1,265 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,276 (2012) → 1,265 (2023): -0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 968 (1990) → 1,265 (2023): 30.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 634, of which 2.4 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 2.1 km SEGP — 2.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.4 km S 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 (Thénac): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chermignac): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Thénac): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Tesson): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Chermignac): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 28.3

Muggy days a summer 6.4

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 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SAINTES weather station, 8.8 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 53 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SAINTES, 8.8 km away at 38 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 898 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINTES, 8.8 km away at 38 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 — 17102/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17102/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17102/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17102/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17444
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17102
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17441
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
Aubrives	08	637 km NE	951	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 64 %
Charentay	69	417 km E	1,273	36.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Péroy-les-Gombries	60	469 km NE	1,224	34	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Cormeilles-en-Vexin	95	432 km NE	1,297	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 64 %
Villeneuve-les-Sablons	60	446 km NE	1,196	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Corbère-les-Cabanes	66	429 km SE	1,213	39.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Charentay	69	417 km E	1,273	36.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Corbère-les-Cabanes	66	429 km SE	1,213	39.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Cormeilles-en-Vexin	95	432 km NE	1,297	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 64 %
Villeneuve-les-Sablons	60	446 km NE	1,196	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Péroy-les-Gombries	60	469 km NE	1,224	34	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Aubrives	08	637 km NE	951	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 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 Chermignac'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
Antran	86	160 km NE	1,148	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Longèves	17	65 km N	1,052	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Serres-Morlaàs	64	264 km S	870	40.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hippolyte	17	31 km NW	1,495	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Nieul-lès-Saintes	17	9.7 km NW	1,186	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lancié	69	420 km E	1,101	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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