Le Busseau

Deux-Sèvres · CC Val de Gâtine · INSEE 79059

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

Few services 32.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Busseau (INSEE 79059) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Val de Gâtine. Population 734 (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/79059-le-busseau

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 16,179 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.44	10	4.41
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA P'TITE PAUSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE P'TIT CANAILLOU). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE BUSSEAU AP). ^[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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA P'TITE PAUSE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	LE P'TIT CANAILLOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	LE BUSSEAU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
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: 1,025 2023: 734 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 768 (2012) → 734 (2023): -4.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 780 (1990) → 734 (2023): -5.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 439, of which 12.8 % second homes and 12.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.3 km WPharmacy — 5.9 km NGP — 6.1 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 (Le Busseau): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Hilaire-de-Voust): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (L'Absie): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (L'Absie): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Le Busseau): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.6

Days at or below 0 °C 19.4

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 19 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SCILLE weather station, 4.5 km away at 247 m; the village itself is at 107 m. ^[11]

The village sits 140 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at SCILLE, 4.5 km away at 247 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 140 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 924 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SCILLE, 4.5 km away at 247 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 — 79059/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79059/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79059/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79059/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79059
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85229
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79001
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
Sanvensa	12	328 km SE	643	34.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Champsac	87	154 km SE	702	35.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Parly	89	326 km NE	817	35.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Puycornet	82	308 km SE	785	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Rigny-sur-Arroux	71	354 km E	613	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %
Blanzay	86	78 km SE	819	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Blanzay	86	78 km SE	819	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Champsac	87	154 km SE	702	35.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Puycornet	82	308 km SE	785	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Parly	89	326 km NE	817	35.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Sanvensa	12	328 km SE	643	34.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Rigny-sur-Arroux	71	354 km E	613	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 53 % · 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 Le Busseau'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
Neuvic-Entier	87	195 km SE	865	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Rouez	72	177 km N	804	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Fenioux	79	8.8 km SE	638	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Rouessé-Vassé	72	178 km N	785	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Vitrac-Saint-Vincent	16	121 km SE	489	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Sargé-sur-Braye	41	185 km NE	945	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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