Bruère-Allichamps

Cher · CC Coeur de France · INSEE 18038

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

Partly served 44.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bruère-Allichamps (INSEE 18038) is in Cher (18), part of CC Coeur de France. Population 567 (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 44.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 17,378 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.43	10	4.31
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 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) (BLERY). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (IDZOUZANE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DE L'ABBAYE DE NOIRLAC · LE BISTROT DU CENTRE). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (THIERRY TINTURIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DE BRU'HAIR). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE PRELONG). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BLERY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	IDZOUZANE	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	2	AUBERGE DE L'ABBAYE DE NOIRLAC · LE BISTROT DU CENTRE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	THIERRY TINTURIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	BRUERE ALLICHAMPS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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'ATELIER DE BRU'HAIR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE PRELONG	INSEE SIRENE 1 / 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: 669 2023: 567 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 646 (2012) → 567 (2023): -12.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 609 (1990) → 567 (2023): -6.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 390, of which 15.9 % second homes and 17.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 6.4 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 (Bruère-Allichamps): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bruère-Allichamps): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bruère-Allichamps): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Orval): 6.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bruère-Allichamps): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.9

Days at or below 0 °C 50.4

Muggy days a summer 2

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

Measured at the ORVAL RAD weather station, 4.9 km away at 165 m; the village itself is at 166 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ORVAL RAD, 4.9 km away at 165 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 735 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ORVAL RAD, 4.9 km away at 165 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 — 18038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18038
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18172
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
Mareuil-sur-Arnon	18	24 km NW	487	34.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Annebault	14	328 km NW	521	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde	24	255 km SW	536	31.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Caillac	46	267 km S	581	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 62 % · humidity 36 %
Les Aspres	61	254 km NW	625	44.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Sennely	45	104 km N	677	49.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mareuil-sur-Arnon	18	24 km NW	487	34.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Sennely	45	104 km N	677	49.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Les Aspres	61	254 km NW	625	44.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde	24	255 km SW	536	31.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Caillac	46	267 km S	581	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 62 % · humidity 36 %
Annebault	14	328 km NW	521	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 78 % · 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 Bruère-Allichamps'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
Narcy	58	71 km NE	464	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Escurolles	03	94 km SE	804	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Varaize	17	239 km W	533	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
La Ferté-Beauharnais	41	97 km NW	561	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Montrieux-en-Sologne	41	103 km NW	638	62	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Puligny-Montrachet	21	178 km E	340	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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