Le Thou

Charente-Maritime · CC Aunis Sud · INSEE 17447

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

Partly served 44/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Thou (INSEE 17447) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC Aunis Sud. Population 2,117 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/17447-le-thou

Vitality score

Vitality score 44/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 9,222 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.46	20	9.18
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.43	10	4.32
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L. GAUDIN). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (MOUSS COUSCOUS · L'INSTANT Z · LE 513 · LA CAP'S AND CO · FOOD TRUCK NOMADE PECHE LOCALE). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE JOSEPH DEPLANNE LE THOU). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DU THOU). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SOPHIE MAILLOUX, MÉDECIN · PIERRE-JACQUES CHABOUSSANT, MÉDECIN · NICOLAS LAURENCEAU, MÉDECIN · ROBIN PRUNOTTO, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE THOU LIRE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (STYLISTE-VISAGISTE BY AURELIA · LE SALON DE CHARLENE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L. GAUDIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	5	MOUSS COUSCOUS · L'INSTANT Z · LE 513 · LA CAP'S AND CO · FOOD TRUCK NOMADE PECHE LOCALE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE JOSEPH DEPLANNE LE THOU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DU THOU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	SOPHIE MAILLOUX, MÉDECIN · PIERRE-JACQUES CHABOUSSANT, MÉDECIN · NICOLAS LAURENCEAU, MÉDECIN · ROBIN PRUNOTTO, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [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	LE THOU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE THOU LIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	STYLISTE-VISAGISTE BY AURELIA · LE SALON DE CHARLENE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 792 2023: 2,117 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,807 (2012) → 2,117 (2023): 17.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,024 (1990) → 2,117 (2023): 106.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 908, of which 2.4 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 3.3 km SFood shop — 3.7 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 (Le Thou): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Thou): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Ciré-d'Aunis): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Le Thou): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.7

Days at or below 0 °C 27.8

Muggy days a summer 6

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-LAURENT PREE-INRAE weather station, 13.5 km away at 3 m; the village itself is at 25 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ST-LAURENT PREE-INRAE, 13.5 km away at 3 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 843 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MURON, 9.3 km away at 11 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 — 17447/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17447/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17447/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17447/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17447
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17003
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17107
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
Saint-Laurent-d'Agny	69	437 km E	2,111	44.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Lamanon	13	542 km SE	2,097	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Pontcarré	77	407 km NE	2,136	39.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Combaillaux	34	456 km SE	2,001	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Limetz-Villez	78	379 km NE	2,110	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Avanton	86	114 km NE	2,226	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Avanton	86	114 km NE	2,226	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Limetz-Villez	78	379 km NE	2,110	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Pontcarré	77	407 km NE	2,136	39.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Laurent-d'Agny	69	437 km E	2,111	44.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Combaillaux	34	456 km SE	2,001	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Lamanon	13	542 km SE	2,097	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · 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 Le Thou'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
Scorbé-Clairvaux	86	131 km NE	2,174	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Belloy-en-France	95	415 km NE	2,250	44.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Vérines	17	12 km N	2,354	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Villedoux	17	21 km NW	2,166	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Esnandes	17	24 km NW	2,224	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Semussac	17	54 km S	2,585	52.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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