Souméras

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17432

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

Few services 23.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Souméras (INSEE 17432) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 381 (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 23.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 18,018 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.93	10	9.27
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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 (CHEZ DANIELA). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING TWINLAKES). ^[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, 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

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	CHEZ DANIELA	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	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	1	CAMPING TWINLAKES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 239 2023: 381 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 354 (2012) → 381 (2023): 7.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 267 (1990) → 381 (2023): 42.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 197, of which 4.1 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.6 km SEPharmacy — 1.9 km SEBakery — 2.0 km WPrimary school — 2.0 km NEGP — 2.7 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 (Chamouillac): 2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montendre): 1.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montendre): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montendre): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Coux): 2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.2

Days at or below 0 °C 37

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONTLIEU_SAPC weather station, 13.7 km away at 89 m; the village itself is at 56 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 17.7 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTLIEU_SAPC, 13.7 km away at 89 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 — 17432/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17432/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17432/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17432/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17081
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17240
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17130
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
Janville	14	430 km N	382	17.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Crouy-Saint-Pierre	80	552 km N	374	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 93 %
Rouvroy-sur-Marne	52	543 km NE	371	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Altwiller	67	690 km NE	373	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Plassac-Rouffiac	16	46 km NE	371	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Neuhaeusel	67	754 km NE	388	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Plassac-Rouffiac	16	46 km NE	371	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Janville	14	430 km N	382	17.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Rouvroy-sur-Marne	52	543 km NE	371	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Crouy-Saint-Pierre	80	552 km N	374	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 93 %
Altwiller	67	690 km NE	373	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Neuhaeusel	67	754 km NE	388	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Souméras'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
Plassac-Rouffiac	16	46 km NE	371	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Coutant-le-Grand	17	78 km N	417	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
La Bastide-de-Lordat	09	294 km SE	330	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Palais-du-Né	16	30 km NE	305	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Beaufort	31	238 km SE	475	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Champdolent	17	75 km NW	425	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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