Guitinières

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17187

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

Few services 24.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Guitinières (INSEE 17187) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 479 (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 24.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 17,879 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	0.9	10	8.97
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.67

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 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE GUITINIERES). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 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 ELEMENTAIRE DE GUITINIERES	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE 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	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: 371 peak 2017: 542 2023: 479 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 444 (2012) → 479 (2023): 7.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 343 (1990) → 479 (2023): 39.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 286, of which 13.3 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.8 km EFood shop — 4.4 km NPharmacy — 4.8 km EGP — 5.1 km E 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-Germain-de-Lusignan): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Clion): 4.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jonzac): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Jonzac): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Guitinières): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22

Days at or below 0 °C 28.5

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN weather station, 8.4 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 39 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 8.4 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 893 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CLION, 4.1 km away at 35 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 — 17187/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17187/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17187/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17187/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17339
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17111
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17197
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17187
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
Saint-Dézéry	30	410 km E	457	25.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Chelles	60	510 km NE	471	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Louan-Villegruis-Fontaine	77	466 km NE	491	21	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Rilly-sur-Loire	41	258 km NE	445	24	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 70 %
Buziet	64	256 km S	479	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Aubignas	07	415 km E	476	25.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Buziet	64	256 km S	479	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Rilly-sur-Loire	41	258 km NE	445	24	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Dézéry	30	410 km E	457	25.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Aubignas	07	415 km E	476	25.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Louan-Villegruis-Fontaine	77	466 km NE	491	21	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Chelles	60	510 km NE	471	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · 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 Guitinières'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
Haimps	17	51 km N	448	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Méard-de-Drône	24	76 km E	485	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Écurat	17	40 km N	438	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vielle-Adour	65	260 km S	479	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vaize	17	42 km N	620	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Eyzerac	24	112 km E	541	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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