Bessines

Deux-Sèvres · CA du Niortais · INSEE 79034

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

Served 63.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bessines (INSEE 79034) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CA du Niortais. Population 1,903 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/79034-bessines

Vitality score

Vitality score 63.4/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 96 % of the 9,921 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.88	20	17.66
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.49	10	4.94
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.88

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CHOCOLATERIE DE FRANCE · LE FOURNIL DU BANETIER). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (STUDIO COMME J'AIME · HISTOIRE DE FRAIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (LIDL). ^[3,4]

9 × Restaurant (L ADRESSE · BREIZH'NAD · DOMAINE DE LA TUILERIE AUBERGE CITADINE · LE VILLAGGIO · LMC BESSINES). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LE JADE · CHEZ TONTON · MELIS). ^[4]

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

9 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AXELLE MARTINET, MÉDECIN · SÉBASTIEN FAVRAUD, MÉDECIN · YOHAN BURGUIERE, MÉDECIN · MAX GRUFFY, MÉDECIN · MATHILDE PAIRAULT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BESSINES LPR RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (ASSOCIATION BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BESSINES). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (SL CREATION · LE CHARME COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (AGAPE HOTEL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Fishmonger.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	CHOCOLATERIE DE FRANCE · LE FOURNIL DU BANETIER	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	STUDIO COMME J'AIME · HISTOIRE DE FRAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	LIDL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Restaurant	9	L ADRESSE · BREIZH'NAD · DOMAINE DE LA TUILERIE AUBERGE CITADINE · LE VILLAGGIO · LMC BESSINES	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LE JADE · CHEZ TONTON · MELIS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN RICHARD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	9	AXELLE MARTINET, MÉDECIN · SÉBASTIEN FAVRAUD, MÉDECIN · YOHAN BURGUIERE, MÉDECIN · MAX GRUFFY, MÉDECIN · MATHILDE PAIRAULT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 9 [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	BESSINES LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	ASSOCIATION BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BESSINES	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	SL CREATION · LE CHARME COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	AGAPE HOTEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 657 2023: 1,903 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,608 (2012) → 1,903 (2023): 18.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,131 (1990) → 1,903 (2023): 68.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 852, of which 1.2 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 1.1 km SEGP — 1.2 km EPharmacy — 1.9 km NE 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 (Bessines): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bessines): 1.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Pharmacy (Niort): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bessines): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.6

Days at or below 0 °C 34.1

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the NIORT weather station, 8.9 km away at 57 m; the village itself is at 15 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at NIORT, 8.9 km away at 57 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 837 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at NIORT, 8.9 km away at 57 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 — 79034/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79034/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79034/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79034/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79034
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79191
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
Plailly	60	388 km NE	1,786	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lucenay	69	404 km E	2,070	50.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Chonas-l'Amballan	38	423 km E	1,729	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Boigny-sur-Bionne	45	263 km NE	2,194	49	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Corbehem	62	520 km NE	2,258	41.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Biard	86	70 km NE	1,910	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Biard	86	70 km NE	1,910	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Boigny-sur-Bionne	45	263 km NE	2,194	49	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Plailly	60	388 km NE	1,786	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lucenay	69	404 km E	2,070	50.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Chonas-l'Amballan	38	423 km E	1,729	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Corbehem	62	520 km NE	2,258	41.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · 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 Bessines'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
Biard	86	70 km NE	1,910	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Puymoyen	16	93 km SE	2,403	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Cantenay-Épinard	49	137 km N	2,415	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sancé	71	410 km E	2,151	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Annet-sur-Marne	77	379 km NE	3,408	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lampertheim	67	670 km NE	3,457	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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