Sainte-Gemme-en-Sancerrois

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18208

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

No daily shops 17/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Gemme-en-Sancerrois (INSEE 18208) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 400 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/18208-sainte-gemme-en-sancerrois

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 18,033 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.5	10	5
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	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: 401 peak 2017: 427 2023: 400 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 413 (2012) → 400 (2023): -3.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 400 (1990) → 400 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 293, of which 18.4 % second homes and 14 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.0 km SPrimary school — 3.0 km SGP — 5.3 km NPharmacy — 5.3 km NFood shop — 5.5 km NE 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 (Sury-en-Vaux): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Boulleret): 5.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Savigny-en-Sancerre): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Savigny-en-Sancerre): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sury-en-Vaux): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.2

Days at or below 0 °C 45.7

Muggy days a summer 5.2

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SANCERRE weather station, 6.6 km away at 240 m; the village itself is at 250 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SANCERRE, 6.6 km away at 240 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 884 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SANCERRE, 6.6 km away at 240 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18208/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18208/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18208/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18208/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18258
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18032
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18246
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
Jalogny	71	176 km SE	399	22.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Bluffy	74	310 km SE	395	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Maixme-Hauterive	28	180 km NW	420	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Rauville-la-Place	50	388 km NW	399	16.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Bahus-Soubiran	40	482 km SW	394	19.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Nanteau-sur-Essonne	77	107 km N	414	20.5	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Nanteau-sur-Essonne	77	107 km N	414	20.5	Few services	no figures
Jalogny	71	176 km SE	399	22.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Maixme-Hauterive	28	180 km NW	420	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Bluffy	74	310 km SE	395	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Rauville-la-Place	50	388 km NW	399	16.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Bahus-Soubiran	40	482 km SW	394	19.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Sainte-Gemme-en-Sancerrois'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
Souvigny-de-Touraine	37	130 km W	380	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Tuzaguet	65	515 km S	440	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Norolles	14	277 km NW	361	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Prêtreville	14	267 km NW	391	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rillé	37	193 km W	313	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Argenvières	18	32 km SE	448	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

Commune website · Wikipedia (en) ·Wikipedia (fr) · INSEE dossier complet · OpenStreetMap · Web search · Map

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/18208-sainte-gemme-en-sancerrois