Thézac

Charente-Maritime · CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole · INSEE 17445

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

Few services 25.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Thézac (INSEE 17445) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole. Population 331 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/17445-thezac

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 18,007 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.6	10	5.96
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE LIGNER JF & FILS). ^[4,3]

1 × Restaurant (AU PETIT GASTRONOME). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE LIGNER JF & FILS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	AU PETIT GASTRONOME	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 350 2023: 331 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 321 (2012) → 331 (2023): 3.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 302 (1990) → 331 (2023): 9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 215, of which 10.2 % second homes and 14.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 0.9 km SGP — 3.0 km SWPrimary school — 3.1 km SWBakery — 3.3 km NPharmacy — 7.7 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 (Pisany): 3.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Thézac): 0.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Meursac): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Corme-Royal): 7.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Meursac): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 28.3

Muggy days a summer 6.4

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 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAINTES weather station, 14.6 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 39 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at SAINTES, 14.6 km away at 38 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 899 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAUJON, 10.4 km away at 7 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17445/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17445/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17445/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17445/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17278
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17445
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17232
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17120
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
Goustranville	14	398 km N	378	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Anzex	47	172 km SE	332	21	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Sallen	14	383 km N	322	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	116 km NE	334	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Valforêt	21	468 km NE	331	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 50 % · humidity 64 %
Mantenay-Montlin	01	462 km E	331	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 53 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	116 km NE	334	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Anzex	47	172 km SE	332	21	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Sallen	14	383 km N	322	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Goustranville	14	398 km N	378	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Mantenay-Montlin	01	462 km E	331	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 53 %
Valforêt	21	468 km NE	331	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 50 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Thézac'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
Sigalens	33	148 km SE	342	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bussac	24	118 km E	379	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Nonac	16	72 km SE	266	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Higuères-Souye	64	259 km S	284	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-de-Serre	24	129 km SE	337	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bourg-du-Bost	24	93 km SE	247	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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