Valdelaume

Deux-Sèvres · CC Mellois en Poitou · INSEE 79140

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

Few services 24/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Valdelaume (INSEE 79140) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Mellois en Poitou. Population 818 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 3 former communes: Ardilleux (79011), Bouin (79045), Pioussay (79211). ^[3]

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/79140-valdelaume

Vitality score

Vitality score 24/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 15,508 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	0.49	10	4.88
Housing mix	0.57	5	2.87

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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. ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar. ^[5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (CREA'STYLE). ^[4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	CREA'STYLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,273 2023: 818 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 884 (2012) → 818 (2023): -7.5 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 828 (1990) → 818 (2023): -1.2 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 597, of which 21.3 % second homes and 10.9 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.3 km EFood shop — 5.1 km SGP — 5.1 km NWPharmacy — 5.5 km NWBakery — 5.6 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 (Chef-Boutonne): 5.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Paizay-Naudouin-Embourie): 5.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Chef-Boutonne): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Chef-Boutonne): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Valdelaume): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.9

Days at or below 0 °C 42.9

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the HANC weather station, 1.3 km away at 125 m; the village itself is at 117 m. ^[12]

An average of 851 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at HANC, 1.3 km away at 125 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79140/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79140/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79140/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79140/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79083
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16253
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79140
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
Besneville	50	386 km N	661	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Sigismond	74	511 km E	641	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 42 %
Saint-Riquier-ès-Plains	76	420 km N	636	27.2	Few services	no figures
Seigy	41	170 km NE	971	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 77 %
Irai	61	294 km N	603	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 69 %
Dormelles	77	333 km NE	816	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 96 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Seigy	41	170 km NE	971	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 77 %
Irai	61	294 km N	603	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 69 %
Dormelles	77	333 km NE	816	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 96 %
Besneville	50	386 km N	661	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Riquier-ès-Plains	76	420 km N	636	27.2	Few services	no figures
Saint-Sigismond	74	511 km E	641	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 42 %

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Elsewhere

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