Marcillé

Deux-Sèvres · CC Mellois en Poitou · INSEE 79251

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

No daily shops 18.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marcillé (INSEE 79251) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Mellois en Poitou. Population 725 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Pouffonds (79214). ^[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/79251-marcille

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 16,267 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.52	10	5.18
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.57

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 766 2023: 725 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 758 (2012) → 725 (2023): -4.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 712 (1990) → 725 (2023): 1.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 368, of which 4.3 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.1 km WGP — 2.1 km WPrimary school — 2.5 km WBakery — 4.5 km NPharmacy — 4.5 km N 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 (Melle): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Melle): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Melle): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Melle): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Melle): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.4

Days at or below 0 °C 30.7

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MELLE weather station, 6.1 km away at 136 m; the village itself is at 106 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at MELLE, 6.1 km away at 136 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 908 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MELLE, 6.1 km away at 136 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 — 79251/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79251/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79251/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79251/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79174
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
Calorguen	22	286 km NW	729	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 99 %
Tourville-les-Ifs	76	395 km N	729	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 82 %
Dolmayrac	47	210 km S	719	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Belleville-en-Caux	76	401 km N	738	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Vandeins	01	401 km E	732	24.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Heuqueville	76	383 km N	717	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dolmayrac	47	210 km S	719	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Calorguen	22	286 km NW	729	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 99 %
Heuqueville	76	383 km N	717	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Tourville-les-Ifs	76	395 km N	729	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 82 %
Belleville-en-Caux	76	401 km N	738	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Vandeins	01	401 km E	732	24.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Marcillé'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
Saint-Biez-en-Belin	72	185 km N	710	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Épieds	49	107 km N	711	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Romans	79	21 km N	690	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Petosse	85	68 km NW	688	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Mézières-sous-Lavardin	72	220 km N	676	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Auffreville-Brasseuil	78	338 km NE	671	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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