Allouis

Cher · CC Terres du Haut Berry · INSEE 18005

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

Few services 27.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Allouis (INSEE 18005) is in Cher (18), part of CC Terres du Haut Berry. Population 1,036 (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/18005-allouis

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 14,098 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.97	10	9.67
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (AU CH'TI PIERROT). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE NICOLAS VANIER). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE JEANNE ROCHE-MAZON). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	AU CH'TI PIERROT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE NICOLAS VANIER	INSEE BPE 1 [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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE JEANNE ROCHE-MAZON	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: 551 peak 2017: 1,071 2023: 1,036 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 973 (2012) → 1,036 (2023): 6.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 706 (1990) → 1,036 (2023): 46.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 464, of which 2.2 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.7 km SWFood shop — 1.8 km SWBakery — 2.5 km SPharmacy — 2.5 km S 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 (Mehun-sur-Yèvre): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mehun-sur-Yèvre): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Mehun-sur-Yèvre): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mehun-sur-Yèvre): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Allouis): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.8

Days at or below 0 °C 57.8

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the QUINCY weather station, 7 km away at 124 m; the village itself is at 131 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at QUINCY_SA, 7.6 km away at 128 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 758 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MEHUN-SUR-YEVRE, 2.3 km away at 122 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18005/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18005/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18005/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18005/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18141
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18005
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
Pouillé-les-Côteaux	44	258 km W	1,033	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 73 %
Les Éparres	38	297 km SE	1,028	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Chaffois	25	308 km E	1,032	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 35 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Barthélemy	70	334 km E	1,085	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Brie	35	296 km W	988	34.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Le Subdray	18	18 km S	967	37.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Subdray	18	18 km S	967	37.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Pouillé-les-Côteaux	44	258 km W	1,033	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 73 %
Brie	35	296 km W	988	34.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Les Éparres	38	297 km SE	1,028	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Chaffois	25	308 km E	1,032	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 35 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Barthélemy	70	334 km E	1,085	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 76 % · 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 Allouis'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
Hoffen	67	468 km NE	1,160	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Ignat	63	160 km SE	916	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Culhat	63	168 km SE	1,182	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Curtafond	01	240 km SE	825	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Serbannes	03	147 km SE	854	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Poliénas	38	328 km SE	1,111	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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