Marçais

Cher · CC Coeur de France · INSEE 18136

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

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marçais (INSEE 18136) is in Cher (18), part of CC Coeur de France. Population 308 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/18136-marcais

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,889 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.33	10	3.3
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.42

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 1 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 MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MARCAIS AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE 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	1	MARCAIS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 484 2023: 308 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 323 (2012) → 308 (2023): -4.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 371 (1990) → 308 (2023): -17 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 196, of which 15.8 % second homes and 14.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 7.1 km SEPharmacy — 8.7 km SWBakery — 9.0 km SWGP — 9.2 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 (Le Châtelet): 9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arcomps): 7.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Orval): 9.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Le Châtelet): 8.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Marçais): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Measured at the ORVAL RAD weather station, 8.5 km away at 165 m; the village itself is at 211 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ORVAL RAD, 8.5 km away at 165 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

An average of 826 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ORCENAIS, 3.2 km away at 212 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 — 18136/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18136/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18136/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18136/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18059
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18009
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18172
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18136
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
Saint-Germain-d'Arcé	72	188 km NW	337	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montigny	18	65 km N	316	17	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux	19	122 km S	293	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 38 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Eulalie-d'Ans	24	192 km SW	298	18.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Ambernac	16	161 km SW	381	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Jalognes	18	68 km NE	264	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montigny	18	65 km N	316	17	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Jalognes	18	68 km NE	264	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux	19	122 km S	293	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 38 % · humidity 86 %
Ambernac	16	161 km SW	381	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Germain-d'Arcé	72	188 km NW	337	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Eulalie-d'Ans	24	192 km SW	298	18.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Marçais'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-Vérain	58	102 km NE	349	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	24 km W	396	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Thionne	03	98 km E	291	10.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Meillard	03	75 km SE	303	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-en-Brionnais	71	152 km E	324	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Chavin	36	60 km W	270	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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