Marignac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17220

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marignac (INSEE 17220) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 412 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 18,000 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.69	10	6.87
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.38

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PAINS ET GOURMANDISES). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	PAINS ET GOURMANDISES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE MARIGNAC	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	MARIGNAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 350 peak 2017: 422 2023: 412 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 409 (2012) → 412 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 347 (1990) → 412 (2023): 18.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 224, of which 6.3 % second homes and 8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 2.2 km NGP — 7.3 km NEPharmacy — 8.6 km SW 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 (Marignac): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chadenac): 2.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jarnac-Champagne): 7.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 8.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Marignac): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.5

Days at or below 0 °C 55.2

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PONS weather station, 6.2 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 55 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 8.7 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 893 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CLION, 5.7 km away at 35 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 — 17220/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17220/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17220/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17220/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17220
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17078
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17192
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
Boucé	03	319 km E	507	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Felzins	46	229 km SE	464	31.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Champnétery	87	163 km E	512	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Martin-sur-Lavezon	07	414 km E	422	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 64 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Ciers-Champagne	17	16 km SE	388	35.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Martigny-le-Comte	71	388 km E	406	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Ciers-Champagne	17	16 km SE	388	35.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Champnétery	87	163 km E	512	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Felzins	46	229 km SE	464	31.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Boucé	03	319 km E	507	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Martigny-le-Comte	71	388 km E	406	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Martin-sur-Lavezon	07	414 km E	422	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 64 % · 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 Marignac'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
Secondigné-sur-Belle	79	73 km N	480	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Orches	86	163 km N	353	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Millac	86	117 km NE	462	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche	24	116 km E	335	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Troche	19	150 km E	534	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Monléon-Magnoac	65	265 km S	405	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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