Vergeroux

Charente-Maritime · CA Rochefort Océan · INSEE 17463

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

Few services 25.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vergeroux (INSEE 17463) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CA Rochefort Océan. Population 1,279 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 25.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 12,820 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ANDRE FORT). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LES SABLONS). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ANDRE FORT	INSEE BPE 1 [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 LES SABLONS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 336 2023: 1,279 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,052 (2012) → 1,279 (2023): 21.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 551 (1990) → 1,279 (2023): 132.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 574, of which 3.7 % second homes and 3.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.6 km EBakery — 0.7 km SEPharmacy — 1.0 km SEGP — 1.2 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 (Rochefort): 0.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rochefort): 0.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Rochefort): 1.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Rochefort): 1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Vergeroux): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-LAURENT PREE-INRAE weather station, 4.4 km away at 3 m; the village itself is at 6 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-LAURENT PREE-INRAE, 4.4 km away at 3 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 774 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-LAURENT PREE-INRAE, 4.4 km away at 3 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 — 17463/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17463/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17463/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17463/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17299
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17463
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
Laquenexy	57	648 km NE	1,255	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 34 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux	53	242 km N	1,172	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Aydoilles	88	624 km NE	1,018	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %
Recy	51	521 km NE	1,093	21.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
Chambry	77	446 km NE	1,064	25.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Neaufles-Saint-Martin	27	421 km NE	1,289	25.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 66 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Germain-le-Fouilloux	53	242 km N	1,172	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Neaufles-Saint-Martin	27	421 km NE	1,289	25.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 66 %
Chambry	77	446 km NE	1,064	25.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Recy	51	521 km NE	1,093	21.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
Aydoilles	88	624 km NE	1,018	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %
Laquenexy	57	648 km NE	1,255	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 34 % · 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 Vergeroux'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
Dalou	09	386 km SE	775	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Azereix	65	316 km S	992	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Antran	86	154 km NE	1,148	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Breuil-Magné	17	3.2 km NE	1,926	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Longèves	17	30 km N	1,052	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Momères	65	321 km S	722	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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