Moëze

Charente-Maritime · CA Rochefort Océan · INSEE 17237

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

Few services 39.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 79 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moëze (INSEE 17237) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA Rochefort Océan. Population 600 (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/17237-moeze

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 17,091 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	0.29	25	7.21
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	0.78	10	7.85
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.36

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 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA MOEZIENNE · BOULANGERIE DES MARAIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (ABUELITA). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE MOEZE). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DU CISO · NOLHIA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

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)	2	LA MOEZIENNE · BOULANGERIE DES MARAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	ABUELITA	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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE MOEZE	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	MOEZE AP	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	L'ATELIER DU CISO · NOLHIA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 280 2023: 600 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 551 (2012) → 600 (2023): 8.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 467 (1990) → 600 (2023): 28.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 312, of which 6.4 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.2 km NEGP — 3.2 km NEPharmacy — 3.2 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 (Moëze): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Soubise): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Soubise): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Soubise): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Moëze): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.5

Days at or below 0 °C 21.8

Muggy days a summer 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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST AGNANT weather station, 4.4 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 7 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST AGNANT, 4.4 km away at 18 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 780 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST AGNANT, 4.4 km away at 18 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17237/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17237/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17237/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17237/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17237
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17429
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
Saint-Amour-Bellevue	71	447 km E	609	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 50 %
Alexain	53	259 km N	610	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Montigny-la-Resle	89	420 km NE	572	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 55 % · humidity 50 %
Pujo	65	297 km S	671	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Albefeuille-Lagarde	82	274 km SE	582	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Fontaine	90	642 km E	605	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Alexain	53	259 km N	610	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Albefeuille-Lagarde	82	274 km SE	582	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Pujo	65	297 km S	671	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Montigny-la-Resle	89	420 km NE	572	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 55 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Amour-Bellevue	71	447 km E	609	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 50 %
Fontaine	90	642 km E	605	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 22 % · 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 Moëze'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
Rieucros	09	385 km SE	718	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Nieul-le-Virouil	17	68 km SE	573	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Jean-d'Angle	17	12 km SE	699	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Les Essards	17	25 km SE	740	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Sarrouilles	65	311 km S	551	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Armou	64	283 km S	609	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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