Écoyeux

Charente-Maritime · CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo" · INSEE 17147

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

Few services 28.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Écoyeux (INSEE 17147) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo". Population 1,365 (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/17147-ecoyeux

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 12,283 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE EVARISTE POITEVIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ECOYEUX AP). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (K.HAIR COIFFURE · COIFFURE MIXTE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE EVARISTE POITEVIN	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	1	ECOYEUX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE 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	3	K.HAIR COIFFURE · COIFFURE MIXTE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 650 2023: 1,365 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,280 (2012) → 1,365 (2023): 6.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 804 (1990) → 1,365 (2023): 69.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 669, of which 2.2 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.8 km EPharmacy — 1.8 km EFood shop — 3.2 km SBakery — 3.7 km NW 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-Hilaire-de-Villefranche): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Écoyeux): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Brizambourg): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Brizambourg): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.4

Days at or below 0 °C 31.5

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BURIE weather station, 7.5 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 52 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at BURIE, 7.5 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BURIE, 7.5 km away at 56 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 — 17147/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17147/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17147/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17147/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17344
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17147
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17070
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
Laizé	71	414 km E	1,155	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Rivière	62	545 km NE	1,123	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Ciers-d'Abzac	33	90 km S	1,614	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Senillé-Saint-Sauveur	86	140 km NE	1,706	36.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Injoux-Génissiat	01	488 km E	1,115	28.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 30 % · humidity 57 %
Vion	72	223 km N	1,366	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 89 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Ciers-d'Abzac	33	90 km S	1,614	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Senillé-Saint-Sauveur	86	140 km NE	1,706	36.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Vion	72	223 km N	1,366	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 89 %
Laizé	71	414 km E	1,155	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Injoux-Génissiat	01	488 km E	1,115	28.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 30 % · humidity 57 %
Rivière	62	545 km NE	1,123	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · 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 Écoyeux'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
Haux	33	122 km S	840	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Camarsac	33	111 km S	1,048	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-des-Pots	17	7.5 km S	1,019	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Bordes	65	297 km S	752	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Ciers-de-Canesse	33	82 km S	746	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Annesse-et-Beaulieu	24	112 km SE	1,511	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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