Mérignac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17229

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

Few services 22.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mérignac (INSEE 17229) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 237 (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/17229-merignac

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 16,965 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	0.82	10	8.24
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.48

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. ^[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	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	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 240 2023: 237 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 239 (2012) → 237 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 179 (1990) → 237 (2023): 32.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 134, of which 5.2 % second homes and 20.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.7 km SWBakery — 3.2 km SEFood shop — 5.3 km EGP — 5.4 km SEPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Chatenet): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chevanceaux): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chevanceaux): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Chevanceaux): 5.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sousmoulins): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.2

Days at or below 0 °C 37

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONTLIEU_SAPC weather station, 11.4 km away at 89 m; the village itself is at 91 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 17.5 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTLIEU_SAPC, 11.4 km away at 89 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 — 17229/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17229/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17229/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17229/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17095
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17104
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17433
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
Cerre-lès-Noroy	70	566 km NE	238	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Montreuil-des-Landes	35	333 km N	237	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 88 %
La Chapelle-d'Aunainville	28	380 km NE	239	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Condamine	39	467 km E	243	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Laurent-des-Combes	33	51 km S	231	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Auvet-et-la-Chapelotte	70	508 km NE	237	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Laurent-des-Combes	33	51 km S	231	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Montreuil-des-Landes	35	333 km N	237	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 88 %
La Chapelle-d'Aunainville	28	380 km NE	239	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Condamine	39	467 km E	243	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Auvet-et-la-Chapelotte	70	508 km NE	237	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Cerre-lès-Noroy	70	566 km NE	238	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · 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 Mérignac'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-Laurent-des-Combes	33	51 km S	231	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Montastruc	65	239 km S	237	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Cessac	33	65 km S	196	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Palais-du-Né	16	25 km N	305	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Le Carlaret	09	290 km SE	295	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Les Esseintes	33	81 km S	244	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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