Brinon-sur-Sauldre

Cher · CC Sauldre et Sologne · INSEE 18037

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

Partly served 58.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brinon-sur-Sauldre (INSEE 18037) is in Cher (18), part of CC Sauldre et Sologne. Population 971 (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 58.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 95 % of the 14,485 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.38	10	3.77
Housing mix	0.41	5	2.03

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SAVEURS ET GOURMANDISES). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL LAGNEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (FCM SOLOGNE EPICERIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (O'POULET ROTI). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MADALINA-IRINA DINCA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (BRINON SUR SAULDRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MAURICE GENEVOIX). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'INSTANT COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Hotel. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SAVEURS ET GOURMANDISES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL LAGNEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	FCM SOLOGNE EPICERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	O'POULET ROTI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	MADALINA-IRINA DINCA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE JACQUES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BRINON SUR SAULDRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MAURICE GENEVOIX	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	1	L'INSTANT COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 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: 1,332 2023: 971 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,006 (2012) → 971 (2023): -3.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,107 (1990) → 971 (2023): -12.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 822, of which 29.7 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.5 km SE 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 (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.3

Days at or below 0 °C 51.9

Muggy days a summer 3.4

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the AUBIGNY-SUR-NERE weather station, 15.1 km away at 176 m; the village itself is at 143 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at AUBIGNY-SUR-NERE, 15.1 km away at 176 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 830 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BRINON, 0.8 km away at 133 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18037/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18037/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18037/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18037/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18037
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
Saint-André-les-Alpes	04	519 km SE	1,029	59.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Mézières-en-Brenne	36	115 km SW	941	65.4	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Cluis	36	120 km S	969	66	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Goult	84	473 km SE	1,055	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-le-Jeune	07	388 km SE	968	70.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal	15	243 km S	1,032	47.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 59 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mézières-en-Brenne	36	115 km SW	941	65.4	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Cluis	36	120 km S	969	66	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal	15	243 km S	1,032	47.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 59 %
Saint-Paul-le-Jeune	07	388 km SE	968	70.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Goult	84	473 km SE	1,055	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-André-les-Alpes	04	519 km SE	1,029	59.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Brinon-sur-Sauldre'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
Cluis	36	120 km S	969	66	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Champagne-en-Valromey	01	320 km SE	831	67.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Le Donjon	03	179 km SE	1,007	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Moncontour	86	188 km SW	976	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ancy-le-Franc	89	145 km E	834	66.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Droué	41	102 km NW	999	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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