Colombiers

Charente-Maritime · CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo" · INSEE 17115

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

Few services 23.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Colombiers (INSEE 17115) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo". Population 306 (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 23.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 17,889 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	0.91	10	9.1
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.41

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 PRIMAIRE DE COLOMBIERS). ^[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 PRIMAIRE DE COLOMBIERS	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: 216 peak 2012: 329 2023: 306 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 329 (2012) → 306 (2023): -7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 217 (1990) → 306 (2023): 41 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 186, of which 5.9 % second homes and 15.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.5 km SFood shop — 3.9 km EGP — 6.6 km NEPharmacy — 7.2 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 (Saint-Léger): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montils): 3.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Sever-de-Saintonge): 6.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pérignac): 7.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Colombiers): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.5

Muggy days a summer 9.1

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the VILLARS EN PONS weather station, 7.4 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 11 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 7.4 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[13]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 7.4 km away at 55 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17115/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17115/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17115/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17115/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17354
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17242
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17400
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17115
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
Connigis	02	486 km NE	306	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 50 %
La Ferrière	37	242 km NE	306	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 43 %
Planrupt	52	515 km NE	307	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 57 %
Fontenay-sur-Vègre	72	253 km N	307	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 95 %
Plan	38	465 km E	300	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 36 %
Manicamp	02	518 km NE	311	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Ferrière	37	242 km NE	306	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 43 %
Fontenay-sur-Vègre	72	253 km N	307	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 95 %
Plan	38	465 km E	300	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 36 %
Connigis	02	486 km NE	306	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 50 %
Planrupt	52	515 km NE	307	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 57 %
Manicamp	02	518 km NE	311	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Colombiers'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
Lugasson	33	104 km S	316	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Les Cassés	11	312 km SE	319	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Loubens	33	120 km S	316	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Casteide-Cami	64	247 km S	274	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Aujac	17	26 km NE	372	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Bournos	64	245 km S	338	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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