Culan

Cher · CC Berry Grand Sud · INSEE 18083

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

Partly served 58.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Culan (INSEE 18083) is in Cher (18), part of CC Berry Grand Sud. Population 779 (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 58.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 97 % of the 15,799 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.34	10	3.36
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.15

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (A.P.G. 02-02 · CHEZ JORDAN ET SOPHIE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (MATRON MAIGGY). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE DU CHATEAU). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (KARINE GODON-BOURIN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MAURICE ESTÈVE). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CULAN · CAISSE LOCALE CREDIT AGRICOLE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (KRIS'COIF). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	A.P.G. 02-02 · CHEZ JORDAN ET SOPHIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	FRANCHISE SPAR	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	MATRON MAIGGY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CAFE DU CHATEAU	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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)	1	KARINE GODON-BOURIN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE JACQUET	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MAURICE ESTÈVE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	2	CULAN · CAISSE LOCALE CREDIT AGRICOLE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	1	KRIS'COIF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,310 2023: 779 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 791 (2012) → 779 (2023): -1.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 932 (1990) → 779 (2023): -16.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 577, of which 18.5 % second homes and 13.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.5 km N 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 (Culan): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Culan): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Culan): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Culan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Culan): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.4

Days at or below 0 °C 58.7

Muggy days a summer 4.5

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CHATEAUMEILLANT weather station, 10.3 km away at 243 m; the village itself is at 267 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at PREVERANGES, 16.1 km away at 462 m, over 28 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 195 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 783 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CULAN, 0.5 km away at 272 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 — 18083/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18083/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18083/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18083/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18083
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
Vouvant	85	239 km W	829	62.2	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 79 %
Lyons-la-Forêt	27	324 km N	756	60.4	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Puisseguin	33	261 km SW	834	53.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Santenay	21	183 km E	820	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Gouarec	22	456 km NW	866	67.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Rochefort-en-Terre	56	377 km W	647	69.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Santenay	21	183 km E	820	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Vouvant	85	239 km W	829	62.2	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 79 %
Puisseguin	33	261 km SW	834	53.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Lyons-la-Forêt	27	324 km N	756	60.4	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Rochefort-en-Terre	56	377 km W	647	69.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Gouarec	22	456 km NW	866	67.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Culan'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
Moncontour	86	184 km W	976	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Issigeac	24	243 km SW	744	75.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Verrières	86	135 km W	921	65.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Adriers	86	123 km W	698	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sagy	71	226 km E	1,249	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
La Trimouille	86	101 km W	859	52	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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