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Clémont

Cher · CC Sauldre et Sologne · INSEE 18067

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

Partly served 48.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Clémont (INSEE 18067) is in Cher (18), part of CC Sauldre et Sologne. Population 687 (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/18067-clemont

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 16,456 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.422510.54
Social0.632012.64
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.6353.16
Population trend0.59105.89
Housing mix0.5652.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BOUL'ANGE). [3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant. [3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR DES SPORTS). [4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CLÉMONT). [3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1LA BOUL'ANGEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)1LE PANIER SYMPAINSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar1BAR DES SPORTSINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1CLEMONT APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CLÉMONTINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 670 peak 2017: 719 2023: 687 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 714 (2012) → 687 (2023): -3.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 631 (1990) → 687 (2023): 8.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 485, of which 21.9 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 3.7 km W (Brinon-sur-Sauldre)Food shop — 3.8 km W (Brinon-sur-Sauldre)Pharmacy — 3.8 km W (Brinon-sur-Sauldre)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 3.7 km WFood shop — 3.8 km WPharmacy — 3.8 km W 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 (Clémont): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Brinon-sur-Sauldre): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Clémont): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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. [10]

Measured at the AUBIGNY-SUR-NERE weather station, 11.8 km away at 176 m; the village itself is at 140 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at AUBIGNY-SUR-NERE, 11.8 km away at 176 m, over 30 summers. [10]

An average of 830 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at BRINON, 3.3 km away at 133 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18067/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18067/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18067/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18067/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 18067
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 18037
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Estivareilles42272 km SE72154.9Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %
Marcolès15310 km S60050Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Siran34474 km S75451.3Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Bourdeilles24282 km SW78546.5Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Aubenton02288 km NE65849.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 72 %
Mers-sur-Indre36106 km S65951Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mers-sur-Indre36106 km S65951Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Estivareilles42272 km SE72154.9Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %
Bourdeilles24282 km SW78546.5Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Aubenton02288 km NE65849.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 72 %
Marcolès15310 km S60050Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Siran34474 km S75451.3Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 59 % · 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 Clémont'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mers-sur-Indre36106 km S65951Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Orbigny3790 km SW71240.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Millançay4142 km W71646.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léon03167 km SE53048.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Corvol-l'Orgueilleux5884 km E72142.5Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Mards-en-Othe10130 km NE63543.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %