Bougon

Deux-Sèvres · CC Haut Val de Sèvre · INSEE 79042

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 16.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bougon (INSEE 79042) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Haut Val de Sèvre. Population 169 (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 16.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 14,935 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.31	10	3.09
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	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: 327 2023: 169 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 177 (2012) → 169 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 209 (1990) → 169 (2023): -19.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 96, of which 3.1 % second homes and 9.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.5 km NFood shop — 3.5 km NGP — 3.5 km WPharmacy — 3.8 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 (Pamproux): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pamproux): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Mothe-Saint-Héray): 3.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pamproux): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bougon): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25

Days at or below 0 °C 44.8

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LEZAY weather station, 12.2 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 112 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MELLE, 16 km away at 136 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 951 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LEZAY, 12.2 km away at 128 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 — 79042/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79042/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79042/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79042/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79184
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79042
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
Kirrberg	67	600 km NE	167	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Cessales	31	353 km SE	168	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Hampont	57	568 km NE	167	16	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Besmé	02	427 km NE	166	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Martinpuich	62	460 km NE	173	16.6	No daily shops	no figures
Lescurry	65	337 km S	161	17.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lescurry	65	337 km S	161	17.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Cessales	31	353 km SE	168	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Besmé	02	427 km NE	166	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Martinpuich	62	460 km NE	173	16.6	No daily shops	no figures
Hampont	57	568 km NE	167	16	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Kirrberg	67	600 km NE	167	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Bougon'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
Saint-Vérand	71	368 km E	155	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Chasselas	71	367 km E	175	17.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Voissay	17	62 km SW	173	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Romans-des-Champs	79	28 km SW	169	11.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Crœttwiller	67	670 km NE	174	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vrain	51	448 km NE	231	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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