L'Houmeau

Charente-Maritime · CA de La Rochelle · INSEE 17190

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

Partly served 46.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

L'Houmeau (INSEE 17190) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA de La Rochelle. Population 3,000 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17190-l-houmeau

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 7,117 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	0.34	25	8.4
Social	0.7	20	13.92
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.37	10	3.74
Public & culture	0.11	5	0.55
Population trend	0.71	10	7.07
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.55

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE MARYANN). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA BOUCHERIE LES 2 B · LE PAVILLON DE LA VIANDE). ^[3,4]

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

8 × Restaurant (SARL CHENAY · LA PASSERELLE · COQUILLAGES ET CRUSTACES NOURRITURE · LA CABANE DU PERTUIS · YERMAT). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LA GUINGUETTE DE PAMPIN). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA ROSE ET LE RENARD L'HOUMEAU). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CELINE LAFORET, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE GURRUCHATEGUI, MÉDECIN · KATIA BAILLY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE L HOUMEAU). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (COTE SALON). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (AU PORT DE L'HOUMEAU). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE MARYANN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	LA BOUCHERIE LES 2 B · LE PAVILLON DE LA VIANDE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	COOP	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 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	8	SARL CHENAY · LA PASSERELLE · COQUILLAGES ET CRUSTACES NOURRITURE · LA CABANE DU PERTUIS · YERMAT	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LA GUINGUETTE DE PAMPIN	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA ROSE ET LE RENARD L'HOUMEAU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CELINE LAFORET, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE GURRUCHATEGUI, MÉDECIN · KATIA BAILLY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE L HOUMEAU	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	L HOUMEAU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	COTE SALON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	AU PORT DE L'HOUMEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 807 2023: 3,000 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,655 (2012) → 3,000 (2023): 13 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,486 (1990) → 3,000 (2023): 20.7 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,650, of which 14.5 % second homes and 2.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.9 km EGP — 1.0 km S 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 (L'Houmeau): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (L'Houmeau): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (L'Houmeau): 1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (L'Houmeau): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (L'Houmeau): 0.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12

Days at or below 0 °C 19.2

Muggy days a summer 5.3

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 19 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA ROCHELLE-ILE DE RE weather station, 1.7 km away at 20 m; the village itself is at 13 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LA ROCHELLE-ILE DE RE, 1.7 km away at 20 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

An average of 722 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA ROCHELLE-ILE DE RE, 1.7 km away at 20 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17190/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-05— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/cbaff3fc-489d-3b67-9785-024f40132470— “Marché de l'Houmeau”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17190/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17190/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17190/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17190
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
Chéreng	59	588 km NE	3,078	38	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Turckheim	68	674 km E	4,139	53.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Opio	06	701 km E	2,527	61.6	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 21 %
Hésingue	68	679 km E	2,972	67.9	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 32 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon	07	470 km E	2,920	69.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 64 % · humidity 79 %
Coubon	43	419 km E	3,140	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 26 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Coubon	43	419 km E	3,140	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 26 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon	07	470 km E	2,920	69.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 64 % · humidity 79 %
Chéreng	59	588 km NE	3,078	38	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Turckheim	68	674 km E	4,139	53.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Hésingue	68	679 km E	2,972	67.9	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 32 % · humidity 71 %
Opio	06	701 km E	2,527	61.6	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 21 %

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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 L'Houmeau'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
Asnières-sur-Oise	95	421 km NE	3,127	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
La Jarne	17	11 km SE	2,637	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Angoulins	17	11 km SE	4,240	57.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan	17	59 km S	3,446	53.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
L'Île-d'Olonne	85	61 km NW	2,802	64.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Breuillet	17	57 km S	3,058	48.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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