Macqueville

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17217

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

Few services 34.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 86 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Macqueville (INSEE 17217) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 297 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17217-macqueville

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 86 % of the 17,836 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.58	10	5.76
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.17

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA GOULICHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE PUITS FLEURI). ^[3]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	LA GOULICHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	LE PUITS FLEURI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE MACQUEVILLE	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	1	MACQUEVILLE 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 421 2023: 297 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 302 (2012) → 297 (2023): -1.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 276 (1990) → 297 (2023): 7.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 180, of which 8.3 % second homes and 19.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.9 km SFood shop — 3.6 km NEPharmacy — 8.2 km SEGP — 9.2 km N 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 (Macqueville): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Siecq): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 9.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sigogne): 8.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Macqueville): 0.3 km to the south (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. ^[12]

Measured at the MATHA weather station, 10.5 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 48 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LES-TOUCHES, 13 km away at 52 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 842 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MATHA, 10.5 km away at 38 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 — 17217/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17217/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17217/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17217/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17217
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17427
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17037
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16369
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
Chichée	89	379 km NE	297	33.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Chassagne-Montrachet	21	400 km E	261	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Eix	55	570 km NE	270	39.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %
Traves	70	513 km NE	345	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Fleury-sur-Loire	58	295 km NE	230	35.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Philippe-d'Aiguilhe	33	100 km S	376	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Philippe-d'Aiguilhe	33	100 km S	376	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Fleury-sur-Loire	58	295 km NE	230	35.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Chichée	89	379 km NE	297	33.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Chassagne-Montrachet	21	400 km E	261	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Traves	70	513 km NE	345	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Eix	55	570 km NE	270	39.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Macqueville'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
Saint-Philippe-d'Aiguilhe	33	100 km S	376	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Créon-d'Armagnac	40	201 km S	331	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lézignan	65	301 km S	355	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Méobecq	36	163 km NE	361	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bat	33	125 km S	281	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Verdille	16	12 km NE	385	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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