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Corme-Écluse

Charente-Maritime · CA Royan Atlantique · INSEE 17119

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

Few services 34.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Corme-Écluse (INSEE 17119) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA Royan Atlantique. Population 1,295 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17119-corme-ecluse

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 12,741 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.13253.28
Social0.39207.77
Education0.39103.93
Health0100
Public & culture0.250.98
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.7453.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA CORMILLONNE - MAISON CHEVALLIER). [3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LA BOITE A CREPES · TEAHUPOO). [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE CORME-ECLUSE). [3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). [3]

2 × Hairdresser (HAIR'V · COIFFURE MAGALI D.). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1LA CORMILLONNE - MAISON CHEVALLIERINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant3LA BOITE A CREPES · TEAHUPOOINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE CORME-ECLUSEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser2HAIR'V · COIFFURE MAGALI D.INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 627 2023: 1,295 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,078 (2012) → 1,295 (2023): 20.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 686 (1990) → 1,295 (2023): 88.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 684, of which 12.9 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 3.4 km S (Grézac)GP — 4.1 km NE (Meursac)Pharmacy — 5.5 km S (Cozes)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.4 km SGP — 4.1 km NEPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Corme-Écluse): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Grézac): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Meursac): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Cozes): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Corme-Écluse): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the ROYAN-MEDIS weather station, 9.2 km away at 12 m; the village itself is at 15 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at ROYAN-MEDIS, 9.2 km away at 12 m, over 30 summers. [12]

An average of 899 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at SAUJON, 7.4 km away at 7 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17119/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17119/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17119/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17119/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17119
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17183
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17232
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17131
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Blaison-Saint-Sulpice49200 km N1,33733Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Dingy-Saint-Clair74550 km E1,46635Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 7 % · humidity 57 %
Mercuer07424 km E1,32530.2Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Copponex74539 km E1,34034Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 28 % · humidity 57 %
Myans73532 km E1,31834.3Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 27 % · humidity 71 %
Hauville27436 km N1,24727.7Few servicesno figures
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Blaison-Saint-Sulpice49200 km N1,33733Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Mercuer07424 km E1,32530.2Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Hauville27436 km N1,24727.7Few servicesno figures
Myans73532 km E1,31834.3Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 27 % · humidity 71 %
Copponex74539 km E1,34034Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 28 % · humidity 57 %
Dingy-Saint-Clair74550 km E1,46635Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 7 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Corme-Écluse'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sainte-Gemme1716 km N1,36534.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Trizay1728 km N1,53836.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Grézac173.4 km S95543.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Cabariot1733 km N1,48130Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Navailles-Angos64250 km S1,54529.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
La Vallée1729 km N70730.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %