Cozes

Charente-Maritime · CA Royan Atlantique · INSEE 17131

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

Partly served 57.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cozes (INSEE 17131) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA Royan Atlantique. Population 2,287 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17131-cozes

Vitality score

Vitality score 57.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 88 % of the 8,763 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	0.55	25	13.76
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.82	10	8.22
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (TORSADES ET CHOCOLATS · LA FOURNAISE · TOUILLET). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Supermarket (SUPER U). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (SAIGON · LA PAELLA DU SOLEIL · LE SAINT-PIERRE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MARCELLE NADAUD COZES · ECOLE ND DE NAZARETH). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE LES VIEILLES VIGNES · COLLEGE PRIVE NOTRE DAME DE NAZARETH). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MUZNA SHAIKH, MÉDECIN · ANNE GIRAUD, MÉDECIN · PIERRE DELPECH, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE COZES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

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

2 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE MUNICIPAL · COLLEGE LES VIELLES VIGNES). ^[3]

4 × Bank (CAISSE FEDERALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL OCEAN · CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL 17-79 · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE COZES). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (NOEL SEBASTIEN COIFFEUR · MAGALI COIFFURE · MA COIFFEUSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE SORLUT). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 4 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Café / bar. ^[4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	TORSADES ET CHOCOLATS · LA FOURNAISE · TOUILLET	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	SUPER U	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	4	SAIGON · LA PAELLA DU SOLEIL · LE SAINT-PIERRE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MARCELLE NADAUD COZES · ECOLE ND DE NAZARETH	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE LES VIEILLES VIGNES · COLLEGE PRIVE NOTRE DAME DE NAZARETH	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	MUZNA SHAIKH, MÉDECIN · ANNE GIRAUD, MÉDECIN · PIERRE DELPECH, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE COZES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE CHARLOTTE LESCOT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	GYMNASE MUNICIPAL · COLLEGE LES VIELLES VIGNES	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	4	CAISSE FEDERALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL OCEAN · CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL 17-79 · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE COZES	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Hairdresser	4	NOEL SEBASTIEN COIFFEUR · MAGALI COIFFURE · MA COIFFEUSE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LE SORLUT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market: Wednesday, Saturday Halles de Cozes. ^[5,6]

Confirmed by two independent sources: Commune website and DATAtourisme.

Trajectory

1968: 1,653 2023: 2,287 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,041 (2012) → 2,287 (2023): 12.1 % over 10 years. ^[7,1]

Population 1,730 (1990) → 2,287 (2023): 32.2 % over 30 years. ^[8,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,366, of which 7.8 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[9]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.5 km W 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 (Cozes): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Food shop (Cozes): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Cozes): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Cozes): 0.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Cozes): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.4

Days at or below 0 °C 23.3

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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

Measured at the ROYAN-MEDIS weather station, 12.5 km away at 12 m; the village itself is at 36 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ROYAN-MEDIS, 12.5 km away at 12 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 841 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ROYAN-MEDIS, 12.5 km away at 12 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17131/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://cozes.fr/march%C3%A9s1— “Marché sous Les Halles et en centre-ville Mercredi matin Foire le 1 er mercredi du mois Samedi matin”
DATAtourisme 2025-09— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/04100bd1-20a2-34ce-a0d9-54bc5b6ab18b— “Sous les anciennes Halles, tous les mercredis et samedis matin toute l’année.”
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17131/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17131/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17131/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17131
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
Trémuson	22	361 km NW	2,259	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Anizy-le-Grand	02	541 km NE	2,472	54.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %
Gergy	71	467 km E	2,566	48.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Pavie	32	247 km SE	2,566	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Remoulins	30	463 km E	2,278	71.1	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Aigulin	17	79 km SE	1,878	46.1	Partly served	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Aigulin	17	79 km SE	1,878	46.1	Partly served	no figures
Pavie	32	247 km SE	2,566	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Trémuson	22	361 km NW	2,259	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Remoulins	30	463 km E	2,278	71.1	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Gergy	71	467 km E	2,566	48.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Anizy-le-Grand	02	541 km NE	2,472	54.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 54 % · humidity 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 Cozes'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
Semussac	17	6.7 km W	2,585	52.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Charron	17	82 km N	2,021	60.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Agnant	17	33 km N	2,780	59.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Esnandes	17	77 km N	2,224	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Just-Luzac	17	29 km NW	2,136	55.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Andilly	17	76 km N	2,350	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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