Puy-du-Lac

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17292

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

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Puy-du-Lac (INSEE 17292) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 523 (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 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 17,664 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	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.58

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 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”.

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[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

Type	Count	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 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)	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	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 BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 272 2023: 523 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 453 (2012) → 523 (2023): 15.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 248 (1990) → 523 (2023): 110.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 237, of which 4.2 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.6 km NEFood shop — 3.8 km NEPharmacy — 3.8 km NEBakery — 4.0 km NEGP — 4.1 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 (Tonnay-Boutonne): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tonnay-Boutonne): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Tonnay-Boutonne): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Tonnay-Boutonne): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Tonnay-Boutonne): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.1

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LES NOUILLERS weather station, 5.4 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 17 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST AGNANT, 19.2 km away at 18 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 859 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LES NOUILLERS, 5.4 km away at 18 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17292/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17292/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17292/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17292/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17448
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
Cannectancourt	60	485 km NE	515	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Ancier	70	514 km E	523	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-André-de-Messei	61	306 km N	518	10.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Jean-de-la-Haize	50	309 km N	535	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 100 % · humidity 50 %
Le Bélieu	25	580 km E	512	17	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Sissy	02	530 km NE	505	11.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-André-de-Messei	61	306 km N	518	10.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Jean-de-la-Haize	50	309 km N	535	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 100 % · humidity 50 %
Cannectancourt	60	485 km NE	515	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Ancier	70	514 km E	523	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Sissy	02	530 km NE	505	11.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %
Le Bélieu	25	580 km E	512	17	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Puy-du-Lac'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
Drevant	18	265 km E	555	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Moragne	17	4.5 km NW	536	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bazillac	65	297 km S	373	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Brienne	71	449 km E	488	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bordes-de-Rivière	31	335 km S	461	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Thomas	31	307 km SE	627	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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