Saint-Dizant-du-Gua

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17325

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

Few services 29.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Dizant-du-Gua (INSEE 17325) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 499 (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 29.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 17,785 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.35	10	3.54
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LA FORGE). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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)	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	3	LA FORGE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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-DIZANT-DU-GUA	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 DIZANT DU GUA 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 790 2023: 499 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 534 (2012) → 499 (2023): -6.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 584 (1990) → 499 (2023): -14.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 401, of which 22.4 % second homes and 14.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.9 km NEGP — 3.4 km NBakery — 3.5 km NPharmacy — 9.5 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 (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lorignac): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Bonnet-sur-Gironde): 9.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Dizant-du-Gua): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.5

Muggy days a summer 9.1

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VILLARS EN PONS weather station, 19.7 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 10 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 19.7 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BOIS, 8.9 km away at 40 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 — 17325/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17325/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17325/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17325/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17328
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17210
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17312
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17325
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
Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf	72	272 km N	472	28.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 84 %
Ventavon	05	534 km E	540	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 9 % · humidity 36 %
Châteauvieux	41	256 km NE	514	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 68 %
Millac	86	137 km NE	462	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Lunac	12	259 km SE	435	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 49 % · humidity 50 %
Méasnes	23	221 km NE	522	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Millac	86	137 km NE	462	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Méasnes	23	221 km NE	522	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %
Châteauvieux	41	256 km NE	514	25.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 68 %
Lunac	12	259 km SE	435	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 49 % · humidity 50 %
Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf	72	272 km N	472	28.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 84 %
Ventavon	05	534 km E	540	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 9 % · humidity 36 %

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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-Dizant-du-Gua'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
Auriac-du-Périgord	24	149 km E	397	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Esquiule	64	249 km S	522	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Guimps	16	36 km E	497	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Azerat	24	147 km E	463	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Marsolan	32	193 km SE	438	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Bonnefont	65	257 km S	314	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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