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Massognes

Vienne · CC du Haut Poitou · INSEE 86150

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

No daily shops 13.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Massognes (INSEE 86150) is in Vienne (86), part of CC du Haut Poitou. Population 274 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/86150-massognes

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 17,590 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.82108.17
Housing mix0.6953.43

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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 271 peak 2012: 296 2023: 274 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 296 (2012) → 274 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 208 (1990) → 274 (2023): 31.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 153, of which 15.7 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.2 km NE (Cuhon)Food shop — 4.5 km SE (Vouzailles)Bakery — 4.7 km SW (Cherves)GP — 7.2 km W (Thénezay)Pharmacy — 7.2 km W (Thénezay)
Primary school — 3.2 km NEFood shop — 4.5 km SEBakery — 4.7 km SWGP — 7.2 km WPharmacy — 7.2 km W 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 (Cherves): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Vouzailles): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Thénezay): 7.2 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Thénezay): 7.2 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Cuhon): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the NEUVILLE DE POI weather station, 15.1 km away at 110 m; the village itself is at 116 m. [12]

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

Humidity measured at VOUILLE, 15.4 km away at 111 m, over 11 summers. [12]

An average of 658 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at GRIMAUDIERE(LA), 7.9 km away at 85 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86150/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86150/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86150/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86150/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86073
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86299
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 79326
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86089
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Boncourt28256 km NE27414.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Tavant3749 km NE26712No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Jarrie-Audouin1790 km SW27010.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Ségus65408 km S26813.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Suré61183 km N27710.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 92 %
Pontoux71385 km E27616No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Tavant3749 km NE26712No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Jarrie-Audouin1790 km SW27010.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Suré61183 km N27710.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 92 %
Boncourt28256 km NE27414.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Pontoux71385 km E27616No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 100 %
Ségus65408 km S26813.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · 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 Massognes'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
La Jarrie-Audouin1790 km SW27010.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Ségus65408 km S26813.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Coutant7959 km S27310.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Provency89308 km E25011.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Charlas31394 km S24312.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Jarret65407 km S29914.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %