Saint-Michel-de-Fronsac

Gironde · CC du Fronsadais · INSEE 33451

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

Few services 36.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Michel-de-Fronsac (INSEE 33451) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Fronsadais. Population 509 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 36.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 17,741 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.34	10	3.37
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Fishmonger. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LES CUISINES DE CORALIE · L'ESCAPADE DU FRONSADAIS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT MICHEL DE FRONSAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE ST MICHEL DE FRONSAC- LA RIVIERE MAIRIE DE SAINT MICHEL DE FRONSAC). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LES CUISINES DE CORALIE · L'ESCAPADE DU FRONSADAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	SAINT MICHEL DE FRONSAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE ST MICHEL DE FRONSAC- LA RIVIERE MAIRIE DE SAINT MICHEL DE FRONSAC	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 513 peak 1990: 608 2023: 509 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 533 (2012) → 509 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 608 (1990) → 509 (2023): -16.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 272, of which 4.4 % second homes and 11 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 2.4 km EGP — 2.6 km EBakery — 3.7 km SFood shop — 4.2 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 (Vayres): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arveyres): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Fronsac): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fronsac): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Michel-de-Fronsac): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.1

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 5.7

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BEYCHAC ET CAIL weather station, 8.7 km away at 40 m; the village itself is at 8 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ST EMILION, 9.2 km away at 38 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

An average of 815 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BEYCHAC ET CAIL, 8.7 km away at 40 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 — 33451/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33451/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33451/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33451/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33539
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33015
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33174
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33451
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
La Bazouge-de-Chemeré	53	342 km N	497	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Damerey	71	461 km NE	545	39.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Favières	54	618 km NE	572	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %
Usseau	86	225 km N	573	37.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Quesnoy-le-Montant	80	595 km N	514	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Morlanne	64	159 km S	611	46	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Morlanne	64	159 km S	611	46	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Usseau	86	225 km N	573	37.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
La Bazouge-de-Chemeré	53	342 km N	497	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Damerey	71	461 km NE	545	39.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Quesnoy-le-Montant	80	595 km N	514	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Favières	54	618 km NE	572	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Saint-Michel-de-Fronsac'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
Mongauzy	33	48 km SE	667	42	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Thors	17	100 km N	477	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Jouhet	86	195 km NE	502	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Créon-d'Armagnac	40	105 km S	331	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Césaire	17	93 km N	888	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Sonnac	17	101 km N	512	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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