Saint-Sauvant

Charente-Maritime · CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo" · INSEE 17395

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

Few services 27.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Sauvant (INSEE 17395) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA "Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo". Population 515 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17395-saint-sauvant

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 17,741 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.53	10	5.28
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.07

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE LA PART DES ANGES). ^[4]

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

1 × Hotel (DESIGN HOTEL DES FRANCS GARCONS). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE LA PART DES ANGES	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	SAINT SAUVANT RP	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	DESIGN HOTEL DES FRANCS GARCONS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 481 2023: 515 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 505 (2012) → 515 (2023): 2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 501 (1990) → 515 (2023): 2.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 313, of which 9.3 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.0 km NBakery — 3.2 km NFood shop — 3.3 km NGP — 4.7 km SWPharmacy — 4.7 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 (Saint-Césaire): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Bris-des-Bois): 3.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chaniers): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Chaniers): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Césaire): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.4

Days at or below 0 °C 31.5

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BURIE weather station, 7.8 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 32 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at BURIE, 7.8 km away at 56 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BURIE, 7.8 km away at 56 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 — 17395/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17395/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17395/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17395/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17314
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17313
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17086
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
Salinelles	30	420 km SE	585	36.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Manerbe	14	387 km N	544	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Albin-de-Vaulserre	38	483 km E	420	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 36 % · humidity 71 %
Urbès	68	616 km NE	427	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 36 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves	50	338 km N	496	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Moriville	88	600 km NE	443	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 34 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves	50	338 km N	496	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Manerbe	14	387 km N	544	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Salinelles	30	420 km SE	585	36.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Albin-de-Vaulserre	38	483 km E	420	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 36 % · humidity 71 %
Moriville	88	600 km NE	443	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 34 % · humidity 57 %
Urbès	68	616 km NE	427	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 36 % · humidity 57 %

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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-Sauvant'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
Salignac-sur-Charente	17	9.8 km SE	606	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Chénas	69	407 km E	533	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Aumagne	17	17 km NE	694	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Nieul-le-Virouil	17	37 km S	573	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Rigny-Ussé	37	179 km N	512	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Cours	79	84 km N	521	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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