Chârost

Cher · CC du Pays d'Issoudun · INSEE 18055

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

Served 60.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chârost (INSEE 18055) is in Cher (18), part of CC du Pays d'Issoudun. Population 888 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/18055-charost

Vitality score

Vitality score 60.2/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 97 % of the 15,029 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	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.28	10	2.83
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

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

1 × Restaurant (JOLYMONG CREATIONS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE BAR DU CENTRE). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHARLES DUFOUR, MÉDECIN · LUC COLOMBIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PANIER SYMPA	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	JOLYMONG CREATIONS	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE BAR DU CENTRE	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)	2	CHARLES DUFOUR, MÉDECIN · LUC COLOMBIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE MIJOIN RION	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	CHAROST 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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,131 peak 1975: 1,166 2023: 888 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,041 (2012) → 888 (2023): -14.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,134 (1990) → 888 (2023): -21.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 563, of which 4.4 % second homes and 13.7 % 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 (Chârost): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chârost): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chârost): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Chârost): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Chârost): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.9

Days at or below 0 °C 53.1

Muggy days a summer 4.8

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CIVRAY weather station, 5 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 126 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CIVRAY, 5 km away at 148 m, over 15 summers. ^[9]

An average of 761 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at PLOU, 0.7 km away at 124 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18055/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18055/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18055/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18055/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18055
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
Serrières	07	276 km SE	1,095	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Cercié	69	218 km SE	1,131	54.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Rauzan	33	301 km SW	1,247	60	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Sains-Richaumont	02	336 km N	923	65.3	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Poix-Terron	08	349 km NE	883	72.9	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Pleurs	51	229 km NE	825	55.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 89 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cercié	69	218 km SE	1,131	54.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Pleurs	51	229 km NE	825	55.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 89 %
Serrières	07	276 km SE	1,095	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Rauzan	33	301 km SW	1,247	60	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Sains-Richaumont	02	336 km N	923	65.3	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Poix-Terron	08	349 km NE	883	72.9	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Chârost'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
Barbizon	77	165 km N	1,261	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes	10	205 km NE	1,084	51.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Seebach	67	489 km NE	1,616	44.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Valence-en-Brie	77	171 km N	1,007	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Bessay-sur-Allier	03	113 km SE	1,382	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Bonneuil-Matours	86	123 km W	2,081	59.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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