La Jard

Charente-Maritime · CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo" · INSEE 17191

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

Few services 33.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Jard (INSEE 17191) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo". Population 426 (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 33.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 17,958 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE CHALET A PIZZA). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE LA JARD). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA JARD AP). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	LE CHALET A PIZZA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE LA JARD	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA JARD AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 237 2023: 426 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 346 (2012) → 426 (2023): 23.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 259 (1990) → 426 (2023): 64.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 210, of which 3.8 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.9 km NWBakery — 5.0 km SEGP — 5.3 km WPharmacy — 5.4 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 (Saint-Léger): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Préguillac): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Tesson): 5.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Tesson): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Jard): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.5

Muggy days a summer 9.1

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VILLARS EN PONS weather station, 6.6 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 41 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 6.6 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 6.6 km away at 55 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 — 17191/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17191/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17191/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17191/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17354
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17289
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17441
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17191
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
Créchy	03	317 km E	428	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 50 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Romain-le-Noble	47	198 km SE	412	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Garein	40	179 km S	424	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Abancourt	59	583 km NE	441	29	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 82 %
Heilly	80	532 km NE	438	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Jean-de-Blaignac	33	100 km S	445	29	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Jean-de-Blaignac	33	100 km S	445	29	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Garein	40	179 km S	424	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Romain-le-Noble	47	198 km SE	412	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Créchy	03	317 km E	428	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 50 % · humidity 43 %
Heilly	80	532 km NE	438	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Abancourt	59	583 km NE	441	29	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 82 %

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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 La Jard'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
Mons	17	26 km NE	445	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Samonac	33	65 km S	474	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Asques	33	79 km S	440	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Ordonnac	33	43 km SW	476	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Lansac	33	66 km S	663	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Faleyras	33	102 km S	430	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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