Saint-Christophe

Charente-Maritime · CA de La Rochelle · INSEE 17315

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

Partly served 43.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Christophe (INSEE 17315) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA de La Rochelle. Population 1,422 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 43.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 12,028 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX MILLES DELICES). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA BOUCHERIE D'ANTAN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VIVAL DE SAINT CHRISTOPHE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AU FAITOUT). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE SAINT-CHRISTOPHE). ^[3]

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

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

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX MILLES DELICES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LA BOUCHERIE D'ANTAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VIVAL DE SAINT CHRISTOPHE	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	2	AU FAITOUT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE SAINT-CHRISTOPHE	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	SAINT CHRISTOPHE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 575 2023: 1,422 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,260 (2012) → 1,422 (2023): 12.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 827 (1990) → 1,422 (2023): 71.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 680, of which 3.8 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.7 km NWPharmacy — 3.3 km S 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-Christophe): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Christophe): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Médard-d'Aunis): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Christophe): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.1

Days at or below 0 °C 16.1▸

Muggy days a summer 6.9

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA ROCHELLE weather station, 16.3 km away at 4 m; the village itself is at 18 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LA ROCHELLE, 16.3 km away at 4 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

An average of 843 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MURON, 16.1 km away at 11 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 — 17315/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17315/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17315/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17315/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17315
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17373
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17003
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
Ardoix	07	454 km E	1,308	42.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Villegly	11	416 km SE	1,247	47.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Ouën-des-Toits	53	222 km N	1,785	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Beignon	56	223 km NW	1,944	49.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Villenouvelle	31	365 km SE	1,487	45.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Épinouze	26	465 km E	1,531	55	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Ouën-des-Toits	53	222 km N	1,785	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Beignon	56	223 km NW	1,944	49.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Villenouvelle	31	365 km SE	1,487	45.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Villegly	11	416 km SE	1,247	47.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Ardoix	07	454 km E	1,308	42.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Épinouze	26	465 km E	1,531	55	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · 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 Saint-Christophe'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
Croix-Chapeau	17	6.1 km SW	1,418	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gilette	06	687 km E	1,627	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Médard-d'Aunis	17	2.4 km NW	2,396	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Esnandes	17	17 km NW	2,224	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Salles-sur-Mer	17	9.6 km SW	2,465	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bonson	06	688 km E	740	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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