Montpellier-de-Médillan

Charente-Maritime · CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole · INSEE 17244

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

Few services 34.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montpellier-de-Médillan (INSEE 17244) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole. Population 700 (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 34.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 16,415 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	0.48	10	4.75
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.89	10	8.94
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.92

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 1 of 4

Public services 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE DE MONTPELLIER-DE-MEDILLAN). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PHILIPPE DEVEDEIX, MÉDECIN · JOSE GALVEZ, MÉDECIN · ROMAIN GELLIS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (AURORE COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE DE MONTPELLIER-DE-MEDILLAN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	PHILIPPE DEVEDEIX, MÉDECIN · JOSE GALVEZ, MÉDECIN · ROMAIN GELLIS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [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	2	AURORE COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE	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: 539 2023: 700 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 637 (2012) → 700 (2023): 9.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 502 (1990) → 700 (2023): 39.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 427, of which 10.8 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Bakery — 3.9 km SFood shop — 3.9 km SPharmacy — 7.3 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 (Saint-André-de-Lidon): 3.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-André-de-Lidon): 3.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Montpellier-de-Médillan): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tesson): 7.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Montpellier-de-Médillan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.5

Muggy days a summer 9.1

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VILLARS EN PONS weather station, 10.2 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 30 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 10.2 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 10.2 km away at 55 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 — 17244/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17244/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17244/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17244/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17310
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17244
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17441
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
Montigny-Lengrain	02	506 km NE	674	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 72 %
Nanteau-sur-Lunain	77	398 km NE	702	32	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 43 %
Preures	62	582 km N	642	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Steinbrunn-le-Haut	68	657 km NE	693	29	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Nouvelle-Église	62	624 km N	709	44.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Balanzac	17	14 km NW	642	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Balanzac	17	14 km NW	642	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Nanteau-sur-Lunain	77	398 km NE	702	32	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 43 %
Montigny-Lengrain	02	506 km NE	674	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 72 %
Preures	62	582 km N	642	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Nouvelle-Église	62	624 km N	709	44.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Steinbrunn-le-Haut	68	657 km NE	693	29	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · 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 Montpellier-de-Médillan'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-Léger	17	13 km E	679	30.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille	17	4.5 km SE	708	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Javrezac	16	31 km E	583	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Livron	64	272 km S	380	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac	24	97 km SE	723	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Bayon-sur-Gironde	33	66 km S	734	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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