Pessines

Charente-Maritime · CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo" · INSEE 17275

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

No daily shops 18/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pessines (INSEE 17275) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo". Population 796 (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 18/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 15,672 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.91	10	9.06
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PRIVE ALTERNATIF LA PASSERELLE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[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. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PRIVE ALTERNATIF LA PASSERELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 218 2023: 796 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 785 (2012) → 796 (2023): 1.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 566 (1990) → 796 (2023): 40.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 393, of which 3.1 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.8 km EBakery — 3.6 km NEFood shop — 3.6 km NEGP — 3.9 km NPharmacy — 4.7 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 (Saintes): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saintes): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux): 3.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saintes): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saintes): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 28.3

Muggy days a summer 6.4

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 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAINTES weather station, 6.1 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 43 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SAINTES, 6.1 km away at 38 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 898 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SAINTES, 6.1 km away at 38 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 — 17275/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17275/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17275/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17275/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17415
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17336
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
Tramolé	38	466 km E	810	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Glisolles	27	385 km N	838	13	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Boulon	14	370 km N	844	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Châtres	10	463 km NE	708	15.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 58 %
Horsarrieu	40	228 km S	717	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 43 %
Condezaygues	47	189 km SE	839	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Condezaygues	47	189 km SE	839	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Horsarrieu	40	228 km S	717	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 43 %
Boulon	14	370 km N	844	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Glisolles	27	385 km N	838	13	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Châtres	10	463 km NE	708	15.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 58 %
Tramolé	38	466 km E	810	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Pessines'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
La Clisse	17	3.8 km W	759	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Soulignonne	17	7.7 km NW	752	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-des-Pots	17	14 km E	1,019	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vaize	17	11 km NE	620	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Brice	16	34 km E	982	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Javrezac	16	28 km E	583	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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