La Roche-Posay

Vienne · CA Grand Châtellerault · INSEE 86207

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

Partly served 57.5/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Roche-Posay (INSEE 86207) is in Vienne (86), part of CA Grand Châtellerault. Population 1,566 (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/86207-la-roche-posay

Vitality score

Vitality score 57.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Bakery (boulangerie)).

Better served than 90 % of the 11,298 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.95	20	19
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.66	10	6.56
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.58	10	5.84
Housing mix	0.14	5	0.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 2 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 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 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE TERRASSON). ^[3]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EDDIF ABDALLAH). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (SUPER U). ^[3,4]

8 × Restaurant (DAN BERG ANIMATRICE · SARL LE DUGUESCLIN · AUBERGE DE LA ROCHE · COUP DE COEUR · ROCH'FOOD). ^[3,4]

5 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE CLAIRE FONTAINE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE LEON HUET). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CLAUDE SAPIN, MÉDECIN · GILLES FLEURANT, MÉDECIN · STEPHANIE CHEMOUNY, MÉDECIN · CARINE MEDERER, MÉDECIN · MAGALI LAVILLENIE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE THERMALE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (LE KERLOUET). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COLLEGE). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (BAIGNADE AMENAGEE). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CAISSE REG CRED AGRIC MUT TOURAIN POITOU · BNP PARIBAS). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (PRIM · UN CHEMIN VERS SOI · DANTON FLORINE). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Hotel (HOTEL DE L'ESPLANADE · HOTEL DE L'EUROPE · HOTEL LE CLOS PAILLE). ^[3,4]

4 × Campsite (CAMPING RENOIR · LA ROCHE POSAY VACANCES · CAMPING GCU LA ROCHE POSAY · LE P'TIT CAMPING). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 6 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE TERRASSON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	EDDIF ABDALLAH	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	SUPER U	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	8	DAN BERG ANIMATRICE · SARL LE DUGUESCLIN · AUBERGE DE LA ROCHE · COUP DE COEUR · ROCH'FOOD	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [3,4]
Café / bar	5		INSEE SIRENE 5 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE CLAIRE FONTAINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE LEON HUET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	CLAUDE SAPIN, MÉDECIN · GILLES FLEURANT, MÉDECIN · STEPHANIE CHEMOUNY, MÉDECIN · CARINE MEDERER, MÉDECIN · MAGALI LAVILLENIE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE THERMALE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	1	LE KERLOUET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COLLEGE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	1	BAIGNADE AMENAGEE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	2	CAISSE REG CRED AGRIC MUT TOURAIN POITOU · BNP PARIBAS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	3	PRIM · UN CHEMIN VERS SOI · DANTON FLORINE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	3	HOTEL DE L'ESPLANADE · HOTEL DE L'EUROPE · HOTEL LE CLOS PAILLE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Campsite	4	CAMPING RENOIR · LA ROCHE POSAY VACANCES · CAMPING GCU LA ROCHE POSAY · LE P'TIT CAMPING	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,323 peak 2012: 1,566 2023: 1,566 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,566 (2012) → 1,566 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,444 (1990) → 1,566 (2023): 8.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,676, of which 42.9 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (La Roche-Posay): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Roche-Posay): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Roche-Posay): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Roche-Posay): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Roche-Posay): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.7

Days at or below 0 °C 50

Muggy days a summer 4.1

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LESIGNY weather station, 8.5 km away at 60 m; the village itself is at 71 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ARCHIGNY, 15.2 km away at 138 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 67 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ROCHE-POSAY Cou, 2.7 km away at 130 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Bakery (boulangerie)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86207/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86207/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86207/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86207/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86207
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
Tourneville-sur-Mer	50	297 km NW	1,666	43.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Le Tholy	88	469 km E	1,489	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Julien-en-Born	40	342 km SW	1,781	67.2	Served	no figures
Lit-et-Mixe	40	346 km SW	1,719	58.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Cervione	2B	847 km SE	2,149	66.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 34 % · humidity 0 %
Castellane	04	553 km SE	1,472	64.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tourneville-sur-Mer	50	297 km NW	1,666	43.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Julien-en-Born	40	342 km SW	1,781	67.2	Served	no figures
Lit-et-Mixe	40	346 km SW	1,719	58.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Le Tholy	88	469 km E	1,489	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Castellane	04	553 km SE	1,472	64.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Cervione	2B	847 km SE	2,149	66.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 34 % · humidity 0 %

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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 La Roche-Posay'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
Éguzon-Chantôme	36	70 km SE	1,301	55.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Pouilly-sur-Loire	58	172 km E	1,635	53.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles	87	67 km SE	1,208	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Châteaumeillant	18	109 km E	1,629	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Brinon-sur-Sauldre	18	139 km NE	971	58.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Cercy-la-Tour	58	216 km E	1,653	52.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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