Montigny

Cher · CC Terres du Haut Berry · INSEE 18151

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

No daily shops 17/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montigny (INSEE 18151) is in Cher (18), part of CC Terres du Haut Berry. Population 316 (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/18151-montigny

Vitality score

Vitality score 17/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 17,916 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	0.34	10	3.43
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.09

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 PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONTIGNY 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 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 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	1	MONTIGNY 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: 489 2023: 316 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 387 (2012) → 316 (2023): -18.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 375 (1990) → 316 (2023): -15.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 257, of which 19.1 % second homes and 16 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 5.9 km NEFood shop — 6.2 km EGP — 6.2 km EPharmacy — 13.9 km NW 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 (Neuvy-Deux-Clochers): 5.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Veaugues): 6.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Veaugues): 6.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Henrichemont): 13.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Montigny): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.4

Days at or below 0 °C 38.7

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the HENRICHEMONT weather station, 9.3 km away at 377 m; the village itself is at 271 m. ^[12]

The village sits 106 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at PARASSY, 11.8 km away at 257 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 857 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at JALOGNES, 8.3 km away at 207 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 — 18151/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18151/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18151/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18151/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18272
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18109
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18151
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
Marçais	18	65 km S	308	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux	19	184 km S	293	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Germain-d'Arcé	72	185 km W	337	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Eulalie-d'Ans	24	256 km SW	298	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Vérain	58	39 km NE	349	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Jalognes	18	7.8 km E	264	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Jalognes	18	7.8 km E	264	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vérain	58	39 km NE	349	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Marçais	18	65 km S	308	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux	19	184 km S	293	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Germain-d'Arcé	72	185 km W	337	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Eulalie-d'Ans	24	256 km SW	298	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · 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 Montigny'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-Germain-d'Arcé	72	185 km W	337	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Morogues	18	6.4 km W	424	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Orches	86	183 km W	353	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Rouvres-les-Bois	36	80 km W	281	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mary	71	155 km SE	281	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire-la-Treille	87	151 km SW	361	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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