Melleran

Deux-Sèvres · CC Mellois en Poitou · INSEE 79175

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

Few services 24.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Melleran (INSEE 79175) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Mellois en Poitou. Population 480 (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/79175-melleran

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 17,890 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.32	10	3.18
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.24

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA FOURNEE LEZEENNE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MELLERAN LE CHAT QUI PÊCHE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA FOURNEE LEZEENNE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	MELLERAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MELLERAN LE CHAT QUI PÊCHE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 [3,4]
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: 750 2023: 480 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 519 (2012) → 480 (2023): -7.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 587 (1990) → 480 (2023): -18.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 323, of which 17.6 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 5.7 km SWGP — 5.7 km SWPharmacy — 5.7 km SW 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 (Melleran): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chef-Boutonne): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chef-Boutonne): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Chef-Boutonne): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.9

Days at or below 0 °C 42.9

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the HANC weather station, 7 km away at 125 m; the village itself is at 157 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at MELLE, 16.5 km away at 136 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 851 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at HANC, 7 km away at 125 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 — 79175/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79175/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79175/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79175/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79175
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79083
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
Barrou	37	101 km NE	478	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Boil	71	364 km E	491	30.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Verneuil-sur-Indre	37	130 km NE	466	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Mailly-la-Ville	89	324 km NE	493	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-des-Ollières	63	271 km E	459	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Ussel	15	256 km SE	453	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 26 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Barrou	37	101 km NE	478	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Verneuil-sur-Indre	37	130 km NE	466	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Ussel	15	256 km SE	453	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 26 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Jean-des-Ollières	63	271 km E	459	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Mailly-la-Ville	89	324 km NE	493	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Boil	71	364 km E	491	30.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Melleran'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
Treteau	03	272 km E	520	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Pruniers	36	173 km NE	496	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Ruffec	36	106 km NE	562	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Fraigne	16	20 km S	427	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Sonnac	17	38 km SW	512	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Chantérac	24	112 km S	652	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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