Lorignac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17210

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

No daily shops 16.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lorignac (INSEE 17210) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 499 (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 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 16 % of the 17,785 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.43	10	4.34
Housing mix	0.6	5	2.99

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LORIGNAC RP). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE EXPRESS). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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		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	0		INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	LORIGNAC RP	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	2	COIFFURE EXPRESS	INSEE BPE 2 / 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	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: 718 2023: 499 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 481 (2012) → 499 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 534 (1990) → 499 (2023): -6.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 363, of which 20.1 % second homes and 14.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop GP — 2.2 km WPrimary school — 2.4 km WBakery — 2.5 km WPharmacy — 9.8 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-Fort-sur-Gironde): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lorignac): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 9.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the VILLARS EN PONS weather station, 16.7 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 37 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 16.7 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BOIS, 7 km away at 40 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17210/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17210/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17210/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17210/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17328
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17210
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17331
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
Rosay-sur-Lieure	27	464 km N	516	13.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 43 %
Broye-Aubigney-Montseugny	70	518 km NE	512	12.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 50 %
Albine	81	339 km SE	512	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Neublans-Abergement	39	491 km E	536	17.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 50 %
Payroux	86	124 km NE	461	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
La Chapelle-Taillefert	23	209 km E	448	16.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 45 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Payroux	86	124 km NE	461	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
La Chapelle-Taillefert	23	209 km E	448	16.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 45 % · humidity 50 %
Albine	81	339 km SE	512	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Rosay-sur-Lieure	27	464 km N	516	13.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 43 %
Neublans-Abergement	39	491 km E	536	17.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 50 %
Broye-Aubigney-Montseugny	70	518 km NE	512	12.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Lorignac'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
Floirac	17	5.1 km NW	420	12.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Champagnolles	17	7.5 km NE	687	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Thaims	17	20 km N	396	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Trojan	33	42 km S	370	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martial-d'Albarède	24	135 km E	484	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Méard-de-Drône	24	90 km E	485	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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