Siecq

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17427

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

Few services 34/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 93 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Siecq (INSEE 17427) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 211 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 34/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 93 % of the 16,263 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.48	10	4.81
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE LES ROMARINS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SIECQ AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (DAVID COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LES ARCADES	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	AUBERGE LES ROMARINS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	SIECQ AP	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	1	DAVID COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 256 peak 1975: 268 2023: 211 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 218 (2012) → 211 (2023): -3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 215 (1990) → 211 (2023): -1.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 127, of which 16.5 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop Primary school — 3.7 km SEBakery — 3.8 km SEGP — 5.8 km NPharmacy — 5.9 km N 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 (Neuvicq-le-Château): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Siecq): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 5.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Beauvais-sur-Matha): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Neuvicq-le-Château): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.5

Days at or below 0 °C 42.5

Muggy days a summer 5

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LES-TOUCHES weather station, 10.1 km away at 52 m; the village itself is at 80 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LES-TOUCHES, 10.1 km away at 52 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 747 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LES-TOUCHES, 10.1 km away at 52 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 — 17427/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17427/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17427/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17427/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17261
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17427
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17037
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
Dampierre-sur-Boutonne	17	31 km NW	267	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Fargues-sur-Ourbise	47	179 km S	338	34	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Pont-du-Navoy	39	469 km E	275	27.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 64 %
Belonchamp	70	561 km NE	207	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Seilhan	31	315 km S	207	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Campagne-sur-Arize	09	324 km SE	300	46.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 69 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dampierre-sur-Boutonne	17	31 km NW	267	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Fargues-sur-Ourbise	47	179 km S	338	34	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Seilhan	31	315 km S	207	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Campagne-sur-Arize	09	324 km SE	300	46.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 69 %
Pont-du-Navoy	39	469 km E	275	27.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 64 %
Belonchamp	70	561 km NE	207	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Siecq'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
Dampierre-sur-Boutonne	17	31 km NW	267	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Chantemerle-sur-la-Soie	17	39 km NW	209	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine	24	59 km SE	331	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Prignac	17	13 km W	282	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
La Villedieu	17	28 km N	200	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Razines	37	135 km N	218	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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