Farges-Allichamps

Cher · CC Coeur de France · INSEE 18091

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

Few services 27.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Farges-Allichamps (INSEE 18091) is in Cher (18), part of CC Coeur de France. Population 256 (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/18091-farges-allichamps

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.54	10	5.41
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.26

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AUTOGRILL COTE FRANCE · MC DONALD'S). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	2	AUTOGRILL COTE FRANCE · MC DONALD'S	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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)	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	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 245 2023: 256 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 229 (2012) → 256 (2023): 11.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 246 (1990) → 256 (2023): 4.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 138, of which 17.4 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.6 km NEFood shop — 2.6 km NEGP — 2.7 km NEPharmacy — 7.6 km SE 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 (Bruère-Allichamps): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bruère-Allichamps): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bruère-Allichamps): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Orval): 7.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Farges-Allichamps): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.9

Days at or below 0 °C 50.4

Muggy days a summer 2

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 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ORVAL RAD weather station, 5.9 km away at 165 m; the village itself is at 187 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ORVAL RAD, 5.9 km away at 165 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 826 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ORCENAIS, 5.5 km away at 212 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

20 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 92,905 € — 665 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Cher is 956 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18091/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18091/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18091/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18091/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18038
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18172
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18091
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Juvigny-sur-Loison	55	372 km NE	239	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Maruéjols-lès-Gardon	30	335 km SE	259	31	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Cressia	39	236 km E	243	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 27 % · humidity 86 %
Villuis	77	197 km N	272	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Précy-le-Sec	89	142 km NE	233	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Cuse-et-Adrisans	25	312 km E	274	30.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 76 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Précy-le-Sec	89	142 km NE	233	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villuis	77	197 km N	272	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cressia	39	236 km E	243	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 27 % · humidity 86 %
Cuse-et-Adrisans	25	312 km E	274	30.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 76 %
Maruéjols-lès-Gardon	30	335 km SE	259	31	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Juvigny-sur-Loison	55	372 km NE	239	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Farges-Allichamps'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
Précy-le-Sec	89	142 km NE	233	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Vergisson	71	184 km E	222	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-Saint-Salves	89	154 km NE	256	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Serrières	71	181 km E	300	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Veyssilieu	38	248 km SE	328	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Colombier	24	264 km SW	285	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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