Givardon

Cher · CC les Trois Provinces · INSEE 18102

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

No daily shops 15.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Givardon (INSEE 18102) is in Cher (18), part of CC les Trois Provinces. Population 300 (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 15.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 17,873 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	0.45	10	4.49
Housing mix	0.43	5	2.14

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 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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 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)	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	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: 434 2023: 300 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 306 (2012) → 300 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 316 (1990) → 300 (2023): -5.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 252, of which 28.6 % second homes and 13.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 7.3 km EBakery — 7.7 km EGP — 7.8 km EPharmacy — 7.8 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 (Sancoins): 7.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sancoins): 7.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sancoins): 7.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sancoins): 7.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Givardon): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.1

Days at or below 0 °C 64.9

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SANCOINS weather station, 8.3 km away at 203 m; the village itself is at 193 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at OUROUER, 9.4 km away at 221 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 800 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SANCOINS, 8.3 km away at 203 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

41 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 60,000 € — 664 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Cher is 956 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

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 — 18102/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18102/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18102/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18102/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18242
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18102
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
Soudeilles	19	165 km S	299	16.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Pierrefitte-ès-Bois	45	74 km N	282	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 86 %
Mazirat	03	72 km S	273	14.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Crouttes	61	306 km NW	306	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Aubin-du-Thenney	27	298 km NW	346	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin-de-Scellon	27	312 km NW	326	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mazirat	03	72 km S	273	14.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Pierrefitte-ès-Bois	45	74 km N	282	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 86 %
Soudeilles	19	165 km S	299	16.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin-du-Thenney	27	298 km NW	346	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Crouttes	61	306 km NW	306	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Aubin-de-Scellon	27	312 km NW	326	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 69 % · 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 Givardon'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
Saint-Laurent-en-Brionnais	71	127 km SE	324	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Rebourguil	12	329 km S	296	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Queyssac-les-Vignes	19	224 km S	235	17.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Monestier	03	69 km S	291	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Michel	31	431 km S	306	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Ratières	26	248 km SE	275	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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