Moussac

Vienne · CC Vienne et Gartempe · INSEE 86171

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

Few services 20.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moussac (INSEE 86171) is in Vienne (86), part of CC Vienne et Gartempe. Population 436 (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/86171-moussac

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,925 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	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.38	10	3.77
Housing mix	0.41	5	2.04

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MOUSSAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL MOULIN CHAUVET). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	MOUSSAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	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	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL MOULIN CHAUVET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 772 2023: 436 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 464 (2012) → 436 (2023): -6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 497 (1990) → 436 (2023): -12.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 402, of which 29.6 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 5.2 km NFood shop — 5.4 km SBakery — 5.6 km SGP — 5.6 km SPharmacy — 12.5 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 (L'Isle-Jourdain): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (L'Isle-Jourdain): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (L'Isle-Jourdain): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Usson-du-Poitou): 12.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Queaux): 5.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.2

Days at or below 0 °C 50.4

Muggy days a summer 8.4

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE-VIGEANT weather station, 4.5 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 95 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LE-VIGEANT, 4.5 km away at 117 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 784 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE-VIGEANT, 4.5 km away at 117 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 — 86171/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86171/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86171/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86171/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86112
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86276
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86203
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
Folles	87	62 km E	439	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 81 %
Apinac	42	275 km E	437	16.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Leynhac	15	213 km SE	297	15.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 50 %
Ladinhac	15	221 km SE	434	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Pérassay	36	114 km E	416	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 100 %
Rancon	87	42 km SE	475	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rancon	87	42 km SE	475	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Folles	87	62 km E	439	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 81 %
Pérassay	36	114 km E	416	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 100 %
Leynhac	15	213 km SE	297	15.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 50 %
Ladinhac	15	221 km SE	434	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Apinac	42	275 km E	437	16.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 51 % · 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 Moussac'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
Queaux	86	5.2 km N	586	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bonnefont	65	338 km S	314	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maur	18	128 km E	253	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Cap d'Astarac	32	327 km S	460	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Touchay	18	126 km NE	220	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Millac	86	10 km S	462	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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