Saint-Germain-de-Longue-Chaume

Deux-Sèvres · CC de Parthenay-Gâtine · INSEE 79255

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

Few services 23.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Germain-de-Longue-Chaume (INSEE 79255) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC de Parthenay-Gâtine. Population 380 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 23.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 18,061 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.53	10	5.33
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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]

2 × Restaurant (LA PARTH DE BOEUF · LE COUP DE FOURCHETTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT GERMAIN DE LONGUE CHAUME AP). ^[3]

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, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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	2	LA PARTH DE BOEUF · LE COUP DE FOURCHETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	SAINT GERMAIN DE LONGUE CHAUME AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 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: 474 2023: 380 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 414 (2012) → 380 (2023): -8.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 368 (1990) → 380 (2023): 3.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 195, of which 3.1 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.3 km SFood shop — 4.2 km NEBakery — 4.4 km WGP — 4.4 km WPharmacy — 7.3 km S 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): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Amailloux): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Clessé): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Aubin-le-Cloud): 7.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

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

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. ^[12]

Measured at the CLESSE weather station, 5.5 km away at 207 m; the village itself is at 209 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at VERNOUX STNA, 16.4 km away at 202 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 868 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CLESSE, 5.5 km away at 207 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 — 79255/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79255/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79255/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79255/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79094
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79008
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79239
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79118
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
Princé	35	176 km N	400	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 82 %
Rougnac	16	142 km SE	395	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvicq	17	164 km S	378	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 86 %
Cambon-lès-Lavaur	81	389 km SE	362	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Christie-d'Armagnac	32	327 km S	382	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 29 %
Sendets	33	256 km S	354	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rougnac	16	142 km SE	395	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvicq	17	164 km S	378	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 86 %
Princé	35	176 km N	400	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 82 %
Sendets	33	256 km S	354	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Christie-d'Armagnac	32	327 km S	382	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 29 %
Cambon-lès-Lavaur	81	389 km SE	362	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Germain-de-Longue-Chaume'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-Christophe	16	121 km SE	334	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Monléon-Magnoac	65	391 km S	405	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Champniers	86	76 km SE	358	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Paulnay	36	115 km E	348	10.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Journet	86	105 km E	366	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Le Petit-Pressigny	37	99 km E	305	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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