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Nachamps

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17254

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 10.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Nachamps (INSEE 17254) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 206 (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/17254-nachamps

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 16,113 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.58105.84
Housing mix0.6753.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 180 peak 2007: 219 2023: 206 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 197 (2012) → 206 (2023): 4.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 190 (1990) → 206 (2023): 8.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 133, of which 16.5 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.5 km SE (Landes)Food shop — 3.5 km SE (Landes)Primary school — 3.5 km SE (Landes)GP — 4.2 km N (Bernay-Saint-Martin)Pharmacy — 8.7 km SW (Tonnay-Boutonne)
Bakery — 3.5 km SEFood shop — 3.5 km SEPrimary school — 3.5 km SEGP — 4.2 km NPharmacy — 8.7 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 (Landes): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Landes): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Bernay-Saint-Martin): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Tonnay-Boutonne): 8.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Landes): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LES NOUILLERS weather station, 10.4 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 25 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at NUAILLE SUR BOUTONNE, 16.8 km away at 36 m, over 29 summers. [11]

An average of 859 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LES NOUILLERS, 10.4 km away at 18 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17254/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17254/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17254/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17254/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17202
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17043
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17448
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Médard-de-Presque46232 km SE20712.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Arnoult60441 km NE20211.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 79 %
Montlognon60429 km NE20711.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Lafrimbolle57643 km NE21111.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %
Soumaintrain89404 km NE2119.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 91 %
Mortefontaine02461 km NE2088No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 88 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Médard-de-Presque46232 km SE20712.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Soumaintrain89404 km NE2119.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 91 %
Montlognon60429 km NE20711.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Arnoult60441 km NE20211.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 79 %
Mortefontaine02461 km NE2088No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 88 %
Lafrimbolle57643 km NE21111.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Nachamps'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courtempierre45338 km NE21012.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Villefollet7930 km NE2039No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ardelles28312 km NE21114.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Poisieux18237 km NE21614.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Mouton1668 km E22311.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Civray-sur-Esves37154 km NE21211.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %