Rétaud

Charente-Maritime · CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole · INSEE 17296

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 32.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rétaud (INSEE 17296) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole. Population 1,058 (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/17296-retaud

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 13,986 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.81	10	8.14
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.36

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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 a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (DUMOUSSEAU RETAUD). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (RETAUD AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	DUMOUSSEAU RETAUD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA RETAUDAISE	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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE RETAUD	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	1	RETAUD AP	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: 739 peak 2017: 1,069 2023: 1,058 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,062 (2012) → 1,058 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 805 (1990) → 1,058 (2023): 31.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 561, of which 6.4 % second homes and 11.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 1.7 km NGP — 4.7 km NWPharmacy — 7.5 km SE 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 (Rétaud): 1.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rétaud): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pisany): 4.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tesson): 7.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rétaud): 0.2 km to the north-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. ^[11]

Measured at the SAINTES weather station, 10.9 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 37 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SAINTES, 10.9 km away at 38 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 898 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINTES, 10.9 km away at 38 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17296/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17296/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17296/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17296/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17296
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17278
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17441
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
Saint-Nexans	24	139 km SE	1,030	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Amand-sur-Fion	51	532 km NE	1,015	29	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Illiers-l'Évêque	27	380 km NE	1,014	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 59 %
Crosmières	72	234 km N	974	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Sadroc	19	183 km E	1,010	38.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 9 % · humidity 64 %
Sers	16	82 km E	896	51.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sers	16	82 km E	896	51.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Nexans	24	139 km SE	1,030	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Sadroc	19	183 km E	1,010	38.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 9 % · humidity 64 %
Crosmières	72	234 km N	974	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Illiers-l'Évêque	27	380 km NE	1,014	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 59 %
Saint-Amand-sur-Fion	51	532 km NE	1,015	29	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Rétaud'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-Julien	69	418 km E	969	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
La Douze	24	142 km SE	1,151	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul	33	83 km S	1,067	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Benais	37	194 km N	945	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Boutiers-Saint-Trojan	16	34 km E	1,387	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Biras	24	115 km E	731	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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