Saint-Ciers-Champagne

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17316

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

Few services 35.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Ciers-Champagne (INSEE 17316) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 388 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 35.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 17,996 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.53	10	5.35
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 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) (LA BOULANGERIE DE LILIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE SAINT-CIERS-CHAMPAGNE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT CIERS CHAMPAGNE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE ST CIERS CHAMPAGNE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	LA BOULANGERIE DE LILIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 SIRENE 2 / 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 SAINT-CIERS-CHAMPAGNE	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 CIERS CHAMPAGNE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE ST CIERS CHAMPAGNE	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	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: 501 2023: 388 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 435 (2012) → 388 (2023): -10.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 375 (1990) → 388 (2023): 3.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 212, of which 5.7 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 0.8 km EPharmacy — 8.2 km SEGP — 8.3 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 (Saint-Ciers-Champagne): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Ciers-Champagne): 0.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde): 8.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde): 8.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Ciers-Champagne): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22

Days at or below 0 °C 28.5

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN weather station, 8.8 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 56 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, 8.8 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 898 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 8.8 km away at 71 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 — 17316/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17316/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17316/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17316/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17316
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16025
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
Marignac	17	16 km NW	412	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Betz-le-Château	37	196 km NE	499	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Cormolain	14	412 km N	392	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Sauvier	03	229 km NE	320	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %
Boucé	03	309 km E	507	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Felzins	46	213 km SE	464	31.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marignac	17	16 km NW	412	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Betz-le-Château	37	196 km NE	499	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Felzins	46	213 km SE	464	31.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Sauvier	03	229 km NE	320	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %
Boucé	03	309 km E	507	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Cormolain	14	412 km N	392	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · 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-Ciers-Champagne'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
Nadaillac	24	140 km E	372	39.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Authon-Ébéon	17	45 km N	410	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Radegonde	33	75 km S	408	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Soubran	17	20 km SW	414	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vernoux-en-Gâtine	79	134 km N	592	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Germain-des-Prés	24	102 km E	503	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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