Courcerac

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17126

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

Few services 22.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Courcerac (INSEE 17126) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 316 (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 22.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 17,916 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.71	10	7.06
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.18

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 1 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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	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	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: 244 2023: 316 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 306 (2012) → 316 (2023): 3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 262 (1990) → 316 (2023): 20.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 171, of which 8.2 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.5 km SBakery — 4.3 km NEPharmacy — 4.4 km NEGP — 4.7 km NE 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 (Matha): 4.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Prignac): 1.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Matha): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Matha): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Courcerac): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MATHA weather station, 3.8 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 30 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BURIE, 8.2 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 842 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MATHA, 3.8 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 — 17126/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17126/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17126/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17126/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17224
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17290
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17126
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
Lucy-le-Bois	89	376 km NE	326	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Omonville	76	452 km N	285	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %
Visker	65	303 km S	362	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pé-de-Léren	64	267 km S	271	23.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Félix	03	300 km E	279	22.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Laudrefang	57	637 km NE	335	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pé-de-Léren	64	267 km S	271	23.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Félix	03	300 km E	279	22.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Visker	65	303 km S	362	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Lucy-le-Bois	89	376 km NE	326	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Omonville	76	452 km N	285	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %
Laudrefang	57	637 km NE	335	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · 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 Courcerac'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
Les Salles-de-Castillon	33	107 km S	330	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Espanès	31	303 km SE	273	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Genès-de-Lombaud	33	121 km S	394	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Vibrac	16	32 km SE	307	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Mourens	33	133 km S	392	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bonneville-et-Saint-Avit-de-Fumadières	24	112 km S	299	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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