Chenay

Deux-Sèvres · CC Mellois en Poitou · INSEE 79084

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

Few services 23.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chenay (INSEE 79084) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Mellois en Poitou. Population 461 (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 23.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 17,925 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.34	10	3.41
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (DUGE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1	DUGE	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 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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 616 2023: 461 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 499 (2012) → 461 (2023): -7.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 548 (1990) → 461 (2023): -15.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 278, of which 10.4 % second homes and 14.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 6.7 km SBakery — 6.8 km SFood shop — 7.0 km SGP — 7.0 km S 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 (Lezay): 6.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lezay): 7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lezay): 7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lezay): 6.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Chenay): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[10]

Measured at the LEZAY weather station, 7.4 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 128 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MELLE, 13.4 km away at 136 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 951 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LEZAY, 7.4 km away at 128 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 — 79084/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79084/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79084/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79084/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79148
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79084
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
Rosteig	67	624 km NE	464	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Sébécourt	27	302 km N	461	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 86 %
Villenauxe-la-Petite	77	342 km NE	453	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Perruel	27	361 km N	465	29.2	Few services	no figures
Gotein-Libarrenx	64	355 km S	479	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %
Marçay	37	88 km N	465	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marçay	37	88 km N	465	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Sébécourt	27	302 km N	461	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 86 %
Villenauxe-la-Petite	77	342 km NE	453	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Gotein-Libarrenx	64	355 km S	479	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %
Perruel	27	361 km N	465	29.2	Few services	no figures
Rosteig	67	624 km NE	464	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · 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 Chenay'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
Combovin	26	429 km E	476	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Peyrat	09	405 km SE	495	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Bogy	07	389 km E	488	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Eberbach-Seltz	67	672 km NE	436	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bourdet	79	47 km W	564	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Lactencin	36	133 km NE	405	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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