Sainte-Soulle

Charente-Maritime · CA de La Rochelle · INSEE 17407

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

Partly served 49.1/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Soulle (INSEE 17407) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA de La Rochelle. Population 5,034 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17407-sainte-soulle

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 38 % of the 4,664 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	0.36	25	8.95
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.5	10	4.99
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL D'USSEAU · SARL BURYLO). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Restaurant (LA PIZZA SOLINOISE · A HAN THAI). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CIBOULETTE ET COMPAGNIE · O 5 VINS). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE LES TROIS PRES). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE MIXTE USSEAU). ^[3]

6 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CLEMENCE JOLIT, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE MEKLAT-FOURNIER, MÉDECIN · JOSE PINTO, MÉDECIN · ANNE-SOPHIE TREMBLAY-BEJANIN, MÉDECIN · MATTHIEU BEYSENS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE COURTOIS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (MAISON DES ASSOCIATIONS). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (LE PETIT SALON · COIFFURE DE FEI · CHARLINE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 2 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	LE FOURNIL D'USSEAU · SARL BURYLO	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	ANGELEO	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	2	LA PIZZA SOLINOISE · A HAN THAI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CIBOULETTE ET COMPAGNIE · O 5 VINS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LES TROIS PRES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE MIXTE USSEAU	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	6	CLEMENCE JOLIT, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE MEKLAT-FOURNIER, MÉDECIN · JOSE PINTO, MÉDECIN · ANNE-SOPHIE TREMBLAY-BEJANIN, MÉDECIN · MATTHIEU BEYSENS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 6 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE COURTOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	MAISON DES ASSOCIATIONS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	6	LE PETIT SALON · COIFFURE DE FEI · CHARLINE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 1,386 2023: 5,034 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,740 (2012) → 5,034 (2023): 34.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,603 (1990) → 5,034 (2023): 93.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,330, of which 1.5 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.7 km SE 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 (Sainte-Soulle): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Soulle): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sainte-Soulle): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sainte-Soulle): 0.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sainte-Soulle): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.1

Days at or below 0 °C 16.1▸

Muggy days a summer 6.9

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LA ROCHELLE weather station, 11.9 km away at 4 m; the village itself is at 34 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at LA ROCHELLE, 11.9 km away at 4 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 759 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LA ROCHELLE, 11.9 km away at 4 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

339 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 290,000 € — 3,100 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

15 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 187,800 € — 3,048 € per m². ^[10]

The median across Charente-Maritime is 2,339 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17407/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17407/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17407/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17407/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17407
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez	42	409 km E	5,116	53.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %
Sadirac	33	163 km S	4,769	49.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Le Lion-d'Angers	49	162 km N	5,390	61.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Venansault	85	67 km NW	4,757	46.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Bages	66	505 km SE	4,560	47	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Savin	38	493 km E	4,323	50.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Venansault	85	67 km NW	4,757	46.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Le Lion-d'Angers	49	162 km N	5,390	61.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Sadirac	33	163 km S	4,769	49.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez	42	409 km E	5,116	53.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Savin	38	493 km E	4,323	50.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Bages	66	505 km SE	4,560	47	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Sainte-Soulle'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
Marsilly	17	11 km NW	3,176	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Esnandes	17	11 km NW	2,224	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Puilboreau	17	8.2 km W	6,765	63.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Nieul-sur-Mer	17	12 km W	5,811	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Dompierre-sur-Mer	17	3.9 km W	6,315	57.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Périgny	17	7.3 km SW	8,877	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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