Plassac

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17279

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

Partly served 42.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Plassac (INSEE 17279) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 677 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/17279-plassac

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 16,558 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE PIC OU LA BROCHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LA BARENTAISE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE PLASSAC). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	LE PIC OU LA BROCHE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LA BARENTAISE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE PLASSAC	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	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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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 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: 384 2023: 677 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 650 (2012) → 677 (2023): 4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 387 (1990) → 677 (2023): 74.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 365, of which 4.9 % second homes and 12.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.1 km NBakery — 1.4 km NFood shop — 1.6 km NPharmacy — 1.6 km N 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-Genis-de-Saintonge): 1.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 1.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 1.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 1.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Plassac): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.5

Days at or below 0 °C 55.2

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PONS weather station, 12.1 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 35 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 12.4 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BOIS, 2.6 km away at 40 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 — 17279/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17279/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17279/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17279/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17331
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17279
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
Poussay	88	599 km NE	653	31.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Monbéqui	82	226 km SE	665	39.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Metzing	57	697 km NE	702	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Mérobert	91	382 km NE	635	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Thun-l'Évêque	59	602 km NE	788	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Flévy	57	662 km NE	602	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 91 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Monbéqui	82	226 km SE	665	39.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mérobert	91	382 km NE	635	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Poussay	88	599 km NE	653	31.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Thun-l'Évêque	59	602 km NE	788	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Flévy	57	662 km NE	602	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 91 %
Metzing	57	697 km NE	702	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · 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 Plassac'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-Georges-sur-Moulon	18	299 km NE	728	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Stattmatten	67	746 km NE	744	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Forstfeld	67	752 km NE	798	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Germain	86	165 km NE	886	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Ausson	31	281 km S	596	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Lacrost	71	442 km E	690	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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