Dampierre-en-Crot

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18084

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 7.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Dampierre-en-Crot (INSEE 18084) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 205 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 7.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 16,110 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.27	10	2.71
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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: 312 2023: 205 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 210 (2012) → 205 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 266 (1990) → 205 (2023): -22.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 159, of which 11.9 % second homes and 18.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.2 km NBakery — 4.3 km NWFood shop — 4.5 km NEPharmacy — 5.0 km EGP — 5.1 km E 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 (Oizon): 4.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barlieu): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vailly-sur-Sauldre): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Vailly-sur-Sauldre): 5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Concressault): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.6

Days at or below 0 °C 52.8

Muggy days a summer 5.7

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VAILLY/SAULDRE weather station, 2.6 km away at 226 m; the village itself is at 272 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at VAILLY/SAULDRE, 2.6 km away at 226 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

An average of 795 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at VAILLY/SAULDRE, 2.6 km away at 226 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18084/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18084/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18084/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18084/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18170
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18022
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18070
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
Lias-d'Armagnac	32	450 km SW	201	11.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Orgedeuil	16	254 km SW	207	8.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Mouhers	36	117 km SW	201	7.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %
Dompierre-en-Morvan	21	124 km E	201	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 64 %
Estipouy	32	468 km S	204	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Quercy	46	306 km S	202	8.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mouhers	36	117 km SW	201	7.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %
Dompierre-en-Morvan	21	124 km E	201	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 64 %
Orgedeuil	16	254 km SW	207	8.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Quercy	46	306 km S	202	8.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Lias-d'Armagnac	32	450 km SW	201	11.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Estipouy	32	468 km S	204	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Dampierre-en-Crot'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
Loudet	31	505 km S	191	8.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Puydarrieux	65	495 km S	226	9.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
La Boissière-en-Gâtine	79	246 km SW	223	8.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Lombia	64	506 km SW	206	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Bézues-Bajon	32	479 km S	188	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Épenède	16	220 km SW	206	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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