Ternant

Charente-Maritime · CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté · INSEE 17440

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

Few services 20.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ternant (INSEE 17440) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Vals de Saintonge Communauté. Population 385 (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/17440-ternant

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 18,038 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	10	0
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.98

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 1 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-YVES MARTIN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (CAMILLE COIFFURE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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)	1	JEAN-YVES MARTIN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	CAMILLE COIFFURE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 179 2023: 385 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 370 (2012) → 385 (2023): 4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 215 (1990) → 385 (2023): 79.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 246, of which 10.2 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 2.6 km SEBakery — 3.4 km EPharmacy — 3.4 km EFood shop — 3.5 km EPrimary school — 3.8 km E 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-Jean-d'Angély): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Jean-d'Angély): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Ternant): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-d'Angély): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-d'Angély): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.1

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 3.2

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 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LES NOUILLERS weather station, 8.9 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 13 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at NUAILLE SUR BOUTONNE, 15.1 km away at 36 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 848 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-JEAN-D Y., 4.4 km away at 32 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17440/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17440/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17440/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17440/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17347
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17440
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
Amance	54	603 km NE	365	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Popian	34	415 km SE	380	17	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Furchhausen	67	677 km NE	376	12	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Montaigu	39	478 km E	427	8.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bény-sur-Mer	14	372 km N	467	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Warlus	62	538 km NE	377	11.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bény-sur-Mer	14	372 km N	467	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Popian	34	415 km SE	380	17	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Montaigu	39	478 km E	427	8.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Warlus	62	538 km NE	377	11.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Amance	54	603 km NE	365	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Furchhausen	67	677 km NE	376	12	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Ternant'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
Sauvagnat-Sainte-Marthe	63	296 km E	460	14	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Allichamps	52	504 km NE	348	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vaudrey	39	488 km E	355	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Beurey-sur-Saulx	55	525 km NE	412	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Proverville	10	473 km NE	217	8.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rousson	89	376 km NE	386	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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