Le Chautay

Cher · CC Portes du Berry entre Loire et Val d'Aubois · INSEE 18062

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

No daily shops 17.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Chautay (INSEE 18062) is in Cher (18), part of CC Portes du Berry entre Loire et Val d'Aubois. Population 256 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/18062-le-chautay

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,315 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.42	10	4.21
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.19

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

2 × Hairdresser (LAURENCE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE VANESSA). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	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	2	LAURENCE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE VANESSA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 310 peak 1982: 317 2023: 256 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 271 (2012) → 256 (2023): -5.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 278 (1990) → 256 (2023): -7.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 149, of which 8.1 % second homes and 12.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.3 km SFood shop — 3.3 km SWGP — 3.3 km SPharmacy — 3.3 km SW 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 Guerche-sur-l'Aubois): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Chautay): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25

Days at or below 0 °C 38.3

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the OUROUER-LES-B. weather station, 12.8 km away at 253 m; the village itself is at 178 m. ^[10]

The village sits 75 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at OUROUER, 13.6 km away at 221 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA GUERCHE, 2.1 km away at 185 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 — 18062/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18062/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18062/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18062/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18108
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18062
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
Cardeilhac	31	457 km SW	259	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Esparsac	82	377 km SW	252	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 95 %
Varennes	37	156 km W	250	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bonneuil	16	285 km SW	247	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 14 %
Frégimont	47	358 km SW	271	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Grun-Bordas	24	279 km SW	244	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Varennes	37	156 km W	250	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Grun-Bordas	24	279 km SW	244	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Bonneuil	16	285 km SW	247	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 14 %
Frégimont	47	358 km SW	271	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Esparsac	82	377 km SW	252	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 95 %
Cardeilhac	31	457 km SW	259	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Le Chautay'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
Varennes	37	156 km W	250	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Francon	31	442 km S	236	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Chavin	36	113 km SW	270	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Villegouin	36	121 km W	325	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Luzé	37	191 km W	276	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Espiens	47	372 km SW	358	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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