Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille

Charente-Maritime · CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole · INSEE 17404

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

Few services 23.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille (INSEE 17404) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole. Population 708 (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/17404-saint-simon-de-pellouaille

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 16,345 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE SAINT-SIMON-DE-PELLOUAILLE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE SAINT-SIMON-DE-PELLOUAILLE	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	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: 315 2023: 708 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 595 (2012) → 708 (2023): 19 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 309 (1990) → 708 (2023): 129.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 376, of which 10.4 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.0 km SWFood shop — 3.9 km NEGP — 4.3 km NEPharmacy — 4.3 km NE 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 (Cravans): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tesson): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Tesson): 4.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tesson): 4.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

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, 5.8 km away at 55 m; the village itself is at 40 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 5.8 km away at 55 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLARS EN PONS, 5.8 km away at 55 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 — 17404/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17404/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17404/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17404/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17133
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17441
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17404
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
L'Orée-d'Écouves	61	327 km N	709	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 81 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Pierre-es-Champs	60	462 km N	672	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %
Sainte-Aulde	77	476 km NE	706	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
Piseux	27	373 km N	675	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 74 %
La Saulsotte	10	455 km NE	677	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Plasnes	27	404 km N	729	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
L'Orée-d'Écouves	61	327 km N	709	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 81 % · humidity 36 %
Piseux	27	373 km N	675	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 74 %
Plasnes	27	404 km N	729	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %
La Saulsotte	10	455 km NE	677	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Pierre-es-Champs	60	462 km N	672	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %
Sainte-Aulde	77	476 km NE	706	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %

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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-Simon-de-Pellouaille'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-Martin-de-Ribérac	24	93 km SE	723	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Bayon-sur-Gironde	33	63 km S	734	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Jazennes	17	7.1 km SE	542	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Barinque	64	248 km S	580	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Comps	33	61 km S	531	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Villars-en-Pons	17	5.8 km E	583	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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