Villexavier

Charente-Maritime · CC de la Haute Saintonge · INSEE 17476

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

No daily shops 11/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villexavier (INSEE 17476) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de la Haute Saintonge. Population 267 (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/17476-villexavier

Vitality score

Vitality score 11/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 17,524 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	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.49	10	4.93
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.44

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 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”.

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	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)	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	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: 274 peak 2007: 303 2023: 267 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 265 (2012) → 267 (2023): 0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 269 (1990) → 267 (2023): -0.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 144, of which 5.6 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.6 km SEFood shop — 3.0 km NWPharmacy — 4.4 km NEBakery — 4.5 km NEGP — 6.9 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 (Ozillac): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Simon-de-Bordes): 3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jonzac): 6.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Ozillac): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Tugéras-Saint-Maurice): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22

Days at or below 0 °C 28.5

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN weather station, 9.9 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 70 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 9.9 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 898 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST GERMAIN DE LUSIGNAN, 9.9 km away at 71 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 — 17476/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17476/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17476/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17476/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17270
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17403
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17197
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17454
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
Brémoy	14	403 km N	262	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Litteau	14	422 km N	271	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Caubon-Saint-Sauveur	47	99 km SE	261	10.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Tréflévénez	29	442 km NW	260	11.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet	47	136 km SE	274	14.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Creyssensac-et-Pissot	24	92 km E	273	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Creyssensac-et-Pissot	24	92 km E	273	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Caubon-Saint-Sauveur	47	99 km SE	261	10.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet	47	136 km SE	274	14.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Brémoy	14	403 km N	262	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Litteau	14	422 km N	271	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Tréflévénez	29	442 km NW	260	11.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 82 % · 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 Villexavier'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
Champagne-Vigny	16	40 km E	234	14	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Salon	24	103 km E	261	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cours-les-Bains	33	115 km S	227	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Fossès-et-Baleyssac	33	94 km SE	222	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Mauriac	33	77 km SE	230	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Roquebrune	33	90 km SE	279	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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