Germignac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17175

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

Few services 38.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Germignac (INSEE 17175) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 653 (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/17175-germignac

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 16,710 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.71	10	7.12
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.48

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (API DISTRIBUTION SAS). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE GERMIGNAC). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GERMIGNAC). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (INSTALLATIONS SPORTIVES COMMUNALES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (TENDANCE MEL'). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	API DISTRIBUTION SAS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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 GERMIGNAC	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	GERMIGNAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GERMIGNAC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	INSTALLATIONS SPORTIVES COMMUNALES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	TENDANCE MEL'	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 342 2023: 653 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 642 (2012) → 653 (2023): 1.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 539 (1990) → 653 (2023): 21.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 328, of which 5.2 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Pharmacy — 2.5 km EGP — 4.9 km WBakery — 5.0 km N 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 (Salles-d'Angles): 5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Germignac): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jarnac-Champagne): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.4

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

Muggy days a summer 12.7▸

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ARCHIAC weather station, 6.8 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 35 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ARCHIAC, 6.8 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ARCHIAC, 6.8 km away at 56 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17175/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17175/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17175/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17175/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16359
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17175
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17192
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16316
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
Bengy-sur-Craon	18	285 km NE	628	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 21 %
Cognat-Lyonne	03	289 km E	706	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 14 %
Longechenal	38	443 km E	593	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 47 % · humidity 7 %
Beaupont	01	443 km E	734	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 69 %
Saint-Hilaire-de-Voust	85	116 km N	642	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 21 %
Marcilly-le-Hayer	10	431 km NE	706	36.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 14 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Hilaire-de-Voust	85	116 km N	642	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 21 %
Bengy-sur-Craon	18	285 km NE	628	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 21 %
Cognat-Lyonne	03	289 km E	706	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 14 %
Marcilly-le-Hayer	10	431 km NE	706	36.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 14 %
Beaupont	01	443 km E	734	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 69 %
Longechenal	38	443 km E	593	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 47 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Germignac'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
Bélus	40	229 km S	615	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rébénacq	64	268 km S	639	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Beuste	64	262 km S	698	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vérac	33	65 km S	883	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Marcenais	33	57 km S	863	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Périssac	33	61 km S	1,184	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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