Crosses

Cher · CC la Septaine · INSEE 18081

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

Few services 22/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Crosses (INSEE 18081) is in Cher (18), part of CC la Septaine. Population 375 (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 22/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 18,072 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	0.75	10	7.54
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.83

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]

1 × Hairdresser (LES NUANCES D'EMILIE). ^[3,4]

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

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	LES NUANCES D'EMILIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 279 peak 2017: 391 2023: 375 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 352 (2012) → 375 (2023): 6.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 299 (1990) → 375 (2023): 25.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 177, of which 1.7 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.0 km NFood shop — 4.0 km NGP — 5.9 km NEPharmacy — 6.1 km NE 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 (Savigny-en-Septaine): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Savigny-en-Septaine): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Avord): 5.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Avord): 6.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Crosses): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.9

Days at or below 0 °C 48.7

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the AVORD weather station, 6.5 km away at 175 m; the village itself is at 150 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at AVORD, 6.5 km away at 175 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 757 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at AVORD, 6.5 km away at 175 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18081/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18081/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18081/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18081/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18247
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18018
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18081
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
Labergement-Foigney	21	204 km E	375	18	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jacques-d'Aliermont	76	330 km N	373	21	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Frégouville	32	401 km S	369	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Dives	60	288 km N	376	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Berville	95	245 km N	374	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Zaessingue	68	367 km E	375	25	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Labergement-Foigney	21	204 km E	375	18	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Berville	95	245 km N	374	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Dives	60	288 km N	376	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jacques-d'Aliermont	76	330 km N	373	21	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Zaessingue	68	367 km E	375	25	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Frégouville	32	401 km S	369	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Crosses'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
Resson	55	278 km NE	361	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Frébuans	39	225 km E	386	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Esnon	89	132 km NE	375	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-sur-École	77	163 km N	365	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Gatey	39	217 km E	373	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chailly-lès-Ennery	57	365 km NE	394	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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