Villiers-en-Plaine

Deux-Sèvres · CA du Niortais · INSEE 79351

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

Few services 39.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villiers-en-Plaine (INSEE 79351) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CA du Niortais. Population 1,806 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/79351-villiers-en-plaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 10,275 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (PIZZA CASA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (VIVAL / LE 744). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA PLAINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VILLIERS EN PLAINE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE GEORGES-L.-GODEAU). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (NAUD). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	PIZZA CASA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	VIVAL / LE 744	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	PHARMACIE DE LA PLAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	VILLIERS EN PLAINE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE GEORGES-L.-GODEAU	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	1	NAUD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 996 2023: 1,806 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,734 (2012) → 1,806 (2023): 4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,153 (1990) → 1,806 (2023): 56.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 770, of which 3.1 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Pharmacy — 0.5 km EFood shop — 3.8 km SGP — 5.5 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 (Villiers-en-Plaine): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Rémy): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Benet): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Villiers-en-Plaine): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Villiers-en-Plaine): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25

Days at or below 0 °C 19.9

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SURIN_SAPC weather station, 8.4 km away at 100 m; the village itself is at 41 m. ^[11]

The village sits 59 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 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at NIORT, 14.7 km away at 57 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 949 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SURIN_SAPC, 8.4 km away at 100 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 — 79351/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79351/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79351/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79351/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79351
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79293
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85020
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
Saint-Quentin-sur-Isère	38	487 km E	1,466	48.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Courlay	79	41 km N	2,387	43.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Attichy	60	428 km NE	1,857	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Véron	89	348 km NE	1,849	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Thuriau	56	255 km NW	1,885	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Bavent	14	315 km N	1,885	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Courlay	79	41 km N	2,387	43.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Thuriau	56	255 km NW	1,885	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Bavent	14	315 km N	1,885	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Véron	89	348 km NE	1,849	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Attichy	60	428 km NE	1,857	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Quentin-sur-Isère	38	487 km E	1,466	48.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 80 % · 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 Villiers-en-Plaine'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
Garat	16	107 km SE	2,105	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Vix	85	25 km W	1,835	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges	85	12 km NW	1,917	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Mothe-Saint-Héray	79	33 km E	1,652	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Georges-de-Luzençon	12	379 km SE	1,565	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Nanteuil	79	28 km E	1,684	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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