Prignac

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17290

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

Few services 28/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Prignac (INSEE 17290) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 282 (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/17290-prignac

Vitality score

Vitality score 28/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 17,697 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.58	10	5.85
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.74

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE TEMPS D'UNE PAUSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (PRIGNAC RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LE TEMPS D'UNE PAUSE	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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	PRIGNAC RP	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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: 280 peak 2017: 297 2023: 282 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 283 (2012) → 282 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 260 (1990) → 282 (2023): 8.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 154, of which 2.6 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop Primary school — 1.2 km SEBakery — 4.4 km SWPharmacy — 5.1 km NEGP — 5.3 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 (Migron): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Prignac): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Matha): 5.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Matha): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Mons): 1.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MATHA weather station, 4.3 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BURIE, 7.5 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 842 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MATHA, 4.3 km away at 38 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17290/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17290/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17290/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17290/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17290
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17224
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17239
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
Villiers-sur-Suize	52	485 km NE	255	26	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 57 %
Ounans	39	479 km E	326	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Villers-sur-Meuse	55	560 km NE	284	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Nampcel	60	482 km NE	293	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Équancourt	80	531 km NE	300	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Chambolle-Musigny	21	433 km E	264	20.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chambolle-Musigny	21	433 km E	264	20.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Ounans	39	479 km E	326	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Nampcel	60	482 km NE	293	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Villiers-sur-Suize	52	485 km NE	255	26	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 57 %
Équancourt	80	531 km NE	300	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Villers-sur-Meuse	55	560 km NE	284	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Prignac'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
Le Carlaret	09	340 km SE	295	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Orbessan	32	265 km S	269	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Palais-du-Né	16	33 km S	305	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martial-de-Mirambeau	17	53 km S	302	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Mérignac	17	57 km S	237	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Laurent-des-Combes	33	108 km S	231	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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