Ranton

Vienne · CC du Pays Loudunais · INSEE 86205

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

Few services 20.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ranton (INSEE 86205) is in Vienne (86), part of CC du Pays Loudunais. Population 204 (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 20.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 16,069 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.55	10	5.46
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.13

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE 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	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: 227 2023: 204 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 183 (2012) → 204 (2023): 11.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 195 (1990) → 204 (2023): 4.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 126, of which 8.7 % second homes and 16.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.6 km SFood shop — 6.5 km WBakery — 6.7 km SWGP — 7.9 km NEPharmacy — 7.9 km NE 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 (Plaine-et-Vallées): 6.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-de-Mâcon): 6.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Les Trois-Moutiers): 7.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Les Trois-Moutiers): 7.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Laon): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.8

Days at or below 0 °C 33.5

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LOUDUN weather station, 10.5 km away at 96 m; the village itself is at 100 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LOUDUN, 10.5 km away at 96 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 632 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-LEGER-DE-MON, 7.9 km away at 90 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86205/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86205/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86205/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86205/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79196
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79274
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86274
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86227
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
Meunet-sur-Vatan	36	144 km E	198	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Labalme	01	434 km E	204	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Lucy-le-Bocage	02	336 km NE	202	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Morley	55	431 km NE	204	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Thouars-sur-Garonne	47	307 km S	228	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %
Merles	82	336 km S	200	22.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meunet-sur-Vatan	36	144 km E	198	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Thouars-sur-Garonne	47	307 km S	228	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %
Lucy-le-Bocage	02	336 km NE	202	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Merles	82	336 km S	200	22.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Morley	55	431 km NE	204	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Labalme	01	434 km E	204	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 47 % · 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 Ranton'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
Morley	55	431 km NE	204	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Jully-sur-Sarce	10	348 km E	232	17.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Polisy	10	351 km E	176	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Orignac	65	431 km S	253	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Razines	37	31 km E	218	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Marnes	79	16 km S	217	9.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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