Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17328

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

Partly served 49.5/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 86 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde (INSEE 17328) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 912 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17328-saint-fort-sur-gironde

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 86 % of the 14,902 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.4	10	4.01
Housing mix	0.53	5	2.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE BOUCHET CHRISTIAN). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Restaurant (LAN VIHAN · CHEZ LOU · LE QUAI GOURMAND). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE HENRI POUZOL ST FORT SUR GIRONDE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTOPHE BONNET, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE HENRY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE PORT MAUBERT). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE BOUCHET CHRISTIAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		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	3	LAN VIHAN · CHEZ LOU · LE QUAI GOURMAND	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE HENRI POUZOL ST FORT SUR GIRONDE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CHRISTOPHE BONNET, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE HENRY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	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	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	1	CAMPING LE PORT MAUBERT	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Tuesday, Saturday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,035 peak 1975: 1,036 2023: 912 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 869 (2012) → 912 (2023): 4.9 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,012 (1990) → 912 (2023): -9.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 712, of which 23.7 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 12.1 km E 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): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 12.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the VILLARS EN PONS weather station, 17.3 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 17.3 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BOIS, 9.5 km away at 40 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17328/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2025-06— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/928fa4cc-d5b1-3474-af69-f999ceaabcad— “Place Pierre-Henri Simon, tous les mardis et samedis”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17328/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17328/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17328/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17328
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17331
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
Aspres-sur-Buëch	05	519 km E	828	51.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Prat-Bonrepaux	09	304 km SE	888	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Cuxac-Cabardès	11	333 km SE	947	55.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 96 % · humidity 50 %
L'Hermenault	85	119 km N	914	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Alligny-Cosne	58	365 km NE	926	44.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 43 %
Meaulne-Vitray	03	287 km NE	906	49	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 58 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
L'Hermenault	85	119 km N	914	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Meaulne-Vitray	03	287 km NE	906	49	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 58 %
Prat-Bonrepaux	09	304 km SE	888	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Cuxac-Cabardès	11	333 km SE	947	55.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 96 % · humidity 50 %
Alligny-Cosne	58	365 km NE	926	44.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 43 %
Aspres-sur-Buëch	05	519 km E	828	51.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · 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-Fort-sur-Gironde'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-Séverin	16	78 km E	784	59.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Corgnac-sur-l'Isle	24	131 km E	854	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	253 km S	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Montils	17	27 km NE	867	46.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Pérignac	17	27 km NE	965	52.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Brizambourg	17	44 km NE	997	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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