Saint-Martial-de-Vitaterne

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17363

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

Few services 21.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 29 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Martial-de-Vitaterne (INSEE 17363) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 552 (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 21.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 29 % of the 17,500 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.82	10	8.17
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.09

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (L'AUBERGE DU MOULIN). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	1	L'AUBERGE DU MOULIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 200 peak 2012: 554 2023: 552 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 554 (2012) → 552 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 419 (1990) → 552 (2023): 31.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 253, of which 9.1 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.2 km SWPharmacy — 1.4 km SBakery — 1.7 km SPrimary school — 1.7 km SWGP — 1.7 km SW 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 (Jonzac): 1.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Jonzac): 1.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Jonzac): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Jonzac): 1.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Jonzac): 1.7 km to the south-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. ^[9]

Measured at the ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN weather station, 1.8 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 72 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 1.8 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 898 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 1.8 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17363/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17363/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17363/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17363/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17197
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
Bisel	68	629 km NE	537	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 42 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Florentin	36	249 km NE	497	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Alise-Sainte-Reine	21	442 km NE	564	18	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Marsilly	57	649 km NE	582	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 35 % · humidity 64 %
Magstatt-le-Bas	68	646 km NE	517	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 41 % · humidity 64 %
Croixrault	80	514 km N	460	21.9	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Florentin	36	249 km NE	497	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Alise-Sainte-Reine	21	442 km NE	564	18	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Croixrault	80	514 km N	460	21.9	Few services	no figures
Bisel	68	629 km NE	537	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 42 % · humidity 64 %
Magstatt-le-Bas	68	646 km NE	517	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 41 % · humidity 64 %
Marsilly	57	649 km NE	582	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 35 % · 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-Martial-de-Vitaterne'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
Le Pout	33	74 km S	616	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Izeste	64	264 km S	442	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Loubières	09	317 km SE	359	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Crampagna	09	316 km SE	980	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Maucor	64	235 km S	564	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Condat-sur-Trincou	24	89 km E	504	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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