Saint-Laurs

Deux-Sèvres · CC Val de Gâtine · INSEE 79263

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

Few services 22.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Laurs (INSEE 79263) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Val de Gâtine. Population 615 (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 22.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 16,957 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	0.86	10	8.61
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.31

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. ^[3,4]

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

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. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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 [4,3]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 533 2023: 615 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 539 (2012) → 615 (2023): 14.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 452 (1990) → 615 (2023): 36.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 305, of which 6.9 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.1 km SEFood shop — 4.9 km SPharmacy — 5.0 km SGP — 5.2 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 (Ardin): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Coulonges-sur-l'Autize): 4.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Coulonges-sur-l'Autize): 5.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Coulonges-sur-l'Autize): 5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Laurs): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.2

Days at or below 0 °C 30.3

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VERNOUX-EN-GATI weather station, 9.5 km away at 205 m; the village itself is at 105 m. ^[11]

The village sits 100 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SCILLE, 10.3 km away at 247 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 142 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,046 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VERNOUX-EN-GATI, 9.5 km away at 205 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79263/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79263/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79263/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79263/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79012
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79101
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79263
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
Mauvezin-sur-Gupie	47	227 km S	613	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Brestot	27	328 km N	628	24	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 84 %
Mézières-en-Vexin	27	333 km NE	607	18.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-d'Écublei	61	269 km N	625	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Haravilliers	95	354 km NE	589	23.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Boissy-Mauvoisin	78	316 km NE	615	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mauvezin-sur-Gupie	47	227 km S	613	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Martin-d'Écublei	61	269 km N	625	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Boissy-Mauvoisin	78	316 km NE	615	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Brestot	27	328 km N	628	24	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 84 %
Mézières-en-Vexin	27	333 km NE	607	18.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Haravilliers	95	354 km NE	589	23.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %

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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-Laurs'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
Boissy-Mauvoisin	78	316 km NE	615	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Brillouet	85	32 km W	616	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Maurice-le-Girard	85	21 km NW	597	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lommoye	78	316 km NE	639	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Crotelles	37	156 km NE	649	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Noisy-Rudignon	77	332 km NE	580	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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