Louzignac

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17212

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

No daily shops 17.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Louzignac (INSEE 17212) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 176 (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 17.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 15,200 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.56	10	5.6
Housing mix	0.61	5	3.05

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LODEWYCK EDWARD FRANCIS). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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)	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	1	LODEWYCK EDWARD FRANCIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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: 196 2023: 176 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 153 (2012) → 176 (2023): 15 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 166 (1990) → 176 (2023): 6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 123, of which 19.5 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.9 km WPrimary school — 3.0 km WFood shop — 3.1 km EGP — 6.3 km NEPharmacy — 6.5 km NE 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 (Sonnac): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Siecq): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 6.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 6.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sonnac): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 5

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MATHA weather station, 7.1 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 62 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LES-TOUCHES, 9.1 km away at 52 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 842 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MATHA, 7.1 km away at 38 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17212/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17212/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17212/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17212/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17428
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17427
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17037
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
Toutenant	71	426 km E	170	18.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Broing-les-Moines	21	439 km NE	180	15.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Le Vaudioux	39	483 km E	168	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Lieurac	09	356 km SE	181	21	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Jasney	70	538 km NE	190	15.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 38 % · humidity 79 %
Sainte-Colombe	89	374 km NE	184	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lieurac	09	356 km SE	181	21	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Sainte-Colombe	89	374 km NE	184	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Toutenant	71	426 km E	170	18.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Broing-les-Moines	21	439 km NE	180	15.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Le Vaudioux	39	483 km E	168	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Jasney	70	538 km NE	190	15.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 38 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Louzignac'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
Ger	65	310 km S	160	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
La Villedieu	17	26 km N	200	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Razines	37	135 km N	218	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Victor	24	82 km SE	213	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bagnizeau	17	8.5 km NW	177	11	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Cessac	33	122 km S	196	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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