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Saint-Sigismond-de-Clermont

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17402

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 17.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Sigismond-de-Clermont (INSEE 17402) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 161 (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/17402-saint-sigismond-de-clermont

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 14,590 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.9854.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 137 peak 2012: 167 2023: 161 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 167 (2012) → 161 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 107 (1990) → 161 (2023): 50.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 89, of which 1.1 % second homes and 9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.2 km SE (Guitinières)GP — 3.6 km NW (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge)Bakery — 4.0 km NW (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge)Food shop — 4.1 km NW (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge)Pharmacy — 4.2 km NW (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge)
Primary school — 2.2 km SEGP — 3.6 km NWBakery — 4.0 km NWFood shop — 4.1 km NWPharmacy — 4.2 km NW 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-Genis-de-Saintonge): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 3.6 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge): 4.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Guitinières): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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, 9.9 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 30 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, 9.9 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 893 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at CLION, 3.5 km away at 35 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17402/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17402/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17402/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17402/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17331
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 17187
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Molain02593 km NE16112No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 54 %
Sainte-Marie-en-Chaux70584 km NE16215.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 34 % · humidity 71 %
Ormes10493 km NE1639No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 58 %
Conan41291 km NE15911.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Bannoncourt55600 km NE15911.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 64 %
Allemant02537 km NE16313.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Conan41291 km NE15911.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Ormes10493 km NE1639No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 58 %
Allemant02537 km NE16313.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Sainte-Marie-en-Chaux70584 km NE16215.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 34 % · humidity 71 %
Molain02593 km NE16112No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 54 %
Bannoncourt55600 km NE15911.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · 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-Sigismond-de-Clermont'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Collongues65247 km S15315.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Neuffons33100 km SE15414.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Angeduc1638 km E14516.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Sabalos65247 km S14814.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Louit65245 km S19417.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Brie-sous-Matha1747 km NE1639.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %