Rezay

Cher · CC Berry Grand Sud · INSEE 18193

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

Few services 26/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rezay (INSEE 18193) is in Cher (18), part of CC Berry Grand Sud. Population 204 (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/18193-rezay

Vitality score

Vitality score 26/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 16,069 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.35	10	3.5
Housing mix	0.4	5	2.02

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (PIZZAS PRISCA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	PIZZAS PRISCA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 343 2023: 204 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 226 (2012) → 204 (2023): -9.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 240 (1990) → 204 (2023): -15 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 191, of which 29.8 % second homes and 15.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 4.2 km WBakery — 4.4 km WFood shop — 4.5 km WPrimary school — 4.5 km WPharmacy — 8.7 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 (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Châtelet): 8.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.1

Days at or below 0 °C 51.5

Muggy days a summer 5.5

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MAISONNAIS weather station, 3.4 km away at 219 m; the village itself is at 178 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MAISONNAIS, 3.4 km away at 219 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

An average of 776 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MAISONNAIS, 3.4 km away at 219 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18193/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18193/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18193/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18193/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18059
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 Donzeil	23	73 km S	186	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 57 % · humidity 57 %
Lacour	82	282 km S	171	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Boucieu-le-Roi	07	266 km SE	243	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Just-Ibarre	64	463 km SW	197	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Julien-Molhesabate	43	240 km SE	162	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 36 %
Sermages	58	133 km E	189	15.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Donzeil	23	73 km S	186	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 57 % · humidity 57 %
Sermages	58	133 km E	189	15.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Julien-Molhesabate	43	240 km SE	162	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 36 %
Boucieu-le-Roi	07	266 km SE	243	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Lacour	82	282 km S	171	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just-Ibarre	64	463 km SW	197	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Rezay'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
Cazavet	09	418 km S	204	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Touchay	18	5.1 km NE	220	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Coulonges-les-Hérolles	86	84 km W	230	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Nueil-sous-Faye	86	148 km W	217	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Prinçay	86	150 km W	201	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Bize	65	425 km S	208	8.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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