Morogues

Cher · CC Terres du Haut Berry · INSEE 18156

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

No daily shops 18.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Morogues (INSEE 18156) is in Cher (18), part of CC Terres du Haut Berry. Population 424 (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/18156-morogues

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 17,961 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	0.43	10	4.3
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.16

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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MOROGUES 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 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	MOROGUES 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: 492 2023: 424 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 415 (2012) → 424 (2023): 2.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 456 (1990) → 424 (2023): -7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 316, of which 18.4 % second homes and 13 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.8 km SWBakery — 4.9 km SGP — 7.9 km WPharmacy — 8.4 km W 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 (Les Aix-d'Angillon): 4.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aubinges): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Menetou-Salon): 7.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Menetou-Salon): 8.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Morogues): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.4

Days at or below 0 °C 37.2

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the HENRICHEMONT weather station, 5.1 km away at 377 m; the village itself is at 219 m. ^[12]

The village sits 158 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, 5.6 km away at 257 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

An average of 875 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LES AIX-D'ANG., 4.8 km away at 195 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 — 18156/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18156/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18156/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18156/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18003
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18145
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18156
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
Le Châtenet-en-Dognon	87	170 km SW	407	18	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 59 %
Marsolan	32	400 km SW	438	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Estivaux	19	231 km S	403	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Épineuil-le-Fleuriel	18	76 km S	436	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 72 %
Ambernac	16	210 km SW	381	17.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Santranges	18	32 km NE	440	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Santranges	18	32 km NE	440	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Épineuil-le-Fleuriel	18	76 km S	436	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 72 %
Le Châtenet-en-Dognon	87	170 km SW	407	18	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 59 %
Ambernac	16	210 km SW	381	17.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Estivaux	19	231 km S	403	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Marsolan	32	400 km SW	438	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Morogues'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
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	78 km SW	396	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Tour-Saint-Gelin	37	167 km W	501	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-d'Arcé	72	179 km W	337	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Montigny	18	6.4 km E	316	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saulgond	16	199 km SW	530	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Courcelles-la-Forêt	72	205 km W	397	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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