Cours

Deux-Sèvres · CC Val de Gâtine · INSEE 79104

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

Few services 22.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cours (INSEE 79104) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Val de Gâtine. Population 521 (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 22.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,689 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.79	10	7.86
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 398 peak 2017: 554 2023: 521 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 541 (2012) → 521 (2023): -3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 405 (1990) → 521 (2023): 28.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 238, of which 2.1 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.2 km SEGP — 1.2 km SEBakery — 1.4 km SEFood shop — 1.9 km SEPharmacy — 9.3 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 (Champdeniers): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Champdeniers): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Pharmacy (Mazières-en-Gâtine): 9.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Champdeniers): 1.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.2

Days at or below 0 °C 35.8

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SURIN weather station, 4.4 km away at 112 m; the village itself is at 106 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VERNOUX STNA, 17.4 km away at 202 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 96 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SURIN, 4.4 km away at 112 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 — 79104/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79104/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79104/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79104/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79066
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79172
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
Sapogne-et-Feuchères	08	523 km NE	514	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Villeneuve-les-Cerfs	63	293 km E	514	21.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Somme-Suippe	51	473 km NE	513	25.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Vinzieux	07	417 km E	538	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Neuville-Coppegueule	80	406 km NE	509	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Campet-et-Lamolère	40	287 km S	506	24.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Campet-et-Lamolère	40	287 km S	506	24.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Villeneuve-les-Cerfs	63	293 km E	514	21.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Neuville-Coppegueule	80	406 km NE	509	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Vinzieux	07	417 km E	538	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Somme-Suippe	51	473 km NE	513	25.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Sapogne-et-Feuchères	08	523 km NE	514	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Cours'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
Bartrès	65	376 km S	485	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Champagnac	17	119 km S	488	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Échallat	16	91 km S	480	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Fontenille-Saint-Martin-d'Entraigues	79	47 km SE	531	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Luchat	17	91 km S	511	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Nantillé	17	72 km S	325	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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