Villemain

Deux-Sèvres · CC Mellois en Poitou · INSEE 79349

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 7.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villemain (INSEE 79349) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC Mellois en Poitou. Population 153 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/79349-villemain

Vitality score

Vitality score 7.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 14,226 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.24	10	2.36
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.68

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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)	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 291 2023: 153 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 159 (2012) → 153 (2023): -3.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 208 (1990) → 153 (2023): -26.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 129, of which 13.2 % second homes and 25.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.1 km SFood shop — 3.2 km SGP — 3.2 km SPharmacy — 3.2 km SBakery — 9.0 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 (Lupsault): 9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Couture-d'Argenson): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Couture-d'Argenson): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Couture-d'Argenson): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Couture-d'Argenson): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[10]

Measured at the HANC weather station, 8.5 km away at 125 m; the village itself is at 117 m. ^[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, 8.5 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 — 79349/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79349/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79349/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79349/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 16194
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79106
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
Les Marêts	77	391 km NE	152	15.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Martin-de-Beauville	47	212 km S	154	12.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 84 %
Romilly	41	231 km N	155	8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 89 %
Ols-et-Rinhodes	12	236 km SE	158	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 77 %
Les Ventes-de-Bourse	61	278 km N	148	11.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 96 %
Ménil-Gondouin	61	304 km N	156	9.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 96 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-de-Beauville	47	212 km S	154	12.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 84 %
Romilly	41	231 km N	155	8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 89 %
Ols-et-Rinhodes	12	236 km SE	158	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 77 %
Les Ventes-de-Bourse	61	278 km N	148	11.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 96 %
Ménil-Gondouin	61	304 km N	156	9.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 96 %
Les Marêts	77	391 km NE	152	15.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 95 %

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Elsewhere

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