Clessé

Deux-Sèvres · CA du Bocage Bressuirais · INSEE 79094

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

Partly served 47.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Clessé (INSEE 79094) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CA du Bocage Bressuirais. Population 923 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/79094-clesse

Vitality score

Vitality score 47.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 14,821 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.5	10	4.99
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.23

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 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

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

2 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE RELAIS DES 2 MOULINS). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (CYCLOGARE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-FRANCOIS MOREAU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CLESSE AP). ^[3]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (STADE MUNICIPAL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE RELAIS DES 2 MOULINS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	CYCLOGARE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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)	1	JEAN-FRANCOIS MOREAU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	CLESSE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CLESSÉ	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	STADE MUNICIPAL	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 1,173 2023: 923 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 955 (2012) → 923 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 924 (1990) → 923 (2023): -0.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 481, of which 7.7 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 6.4 km NW 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 (Clessé): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Clessé): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Clessé): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Chapelle-Saint-Laurent): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.8

Days at or below 0 °C 47.2

Muggy days a summer 3.7

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CLESSE weather station, 1.4 km away at 207 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VERNOUX STNA, 13 km away at 202 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 868 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CLESSE, 1.4 km away at 207 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 — 79094/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79094/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79094/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79094/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79094
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79076
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
Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour	19	241 km SE	928	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %
Douelle	46	285 km SE	830	53.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Julien-de-Cassagnas	30	454 km SE	734	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte	38	497 km E	1,162	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Cologne	32	350 km S	947	59.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 93 %
Bourg-Saint-Bernard	31	384 km SE	1,125	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour	19	241 km SE	928	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %
Douelle	46	285 km SE	830	53.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %
Cologne	32	350 km S	947	59.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 93 %
Bourg-Saint-Bernard	31	384 km SE	1,125	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Julien-de-Cassagnas	30	454 km SE	734	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte	38	497 km E	1,162	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Clessé'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
Dampierre-sur-Linotte	70	510 km E	753	51.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Le Grand-Pressigny	37	95 km E	872	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Souvigné	37	108 km NE	933	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Ménil	53	120 km N	923	38.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois	37	94 km NE	732	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Neste	65	411 km S	964	46.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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