Savigny-en-Sancerre

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18246

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 41.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Savigny-en-Sancerre (INSEE 18246) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 1,088 (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/18246-savigny-en-sancerre

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 13,808 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.61	10	6.09
Housing mix	0.56	5	2.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (O' REPERE DU BON PAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA BOULE D'OR · LA RECREPE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (RESTAURANT DE LA BOULE D'OR). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE REMI BRISSIAUD). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (RICHARD POPOTTE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE DE LA PLACE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAVIGNY EN SANCERRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	O' REPERE DU BON PAIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	LA BOULE D'OR · LA RECREPE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	RESTAURANT DE LA BOULE D'OR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE REMI BRISSIAUD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	RICHARD POPOTTE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL PHARMACIE DE LA PLACE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAVIGNY EN SANCERRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE	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]
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: 895 2023: 1,088 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,053 (2012) → 1,088 (2023): 3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 981 (1990) → 1,088 (2023): 10.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 769, of which 22.2 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 5.3 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 (Savigny-en-Sancerre): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Boulleret): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Savigny-en-Sancerre): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Savigny-en-Sancerre): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Savigny-en-Sancerre): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.9

Days at or below 0 °C 66.8

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LERE weather station, 6.6 km away at 139 m; the village itself is at 215 m. ^[10]

The village sits 76 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LERE, 6.6 km away at 139 m, over 28 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 76 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 723 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LERE, 6.6 km away at 139 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 — 18246/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18246/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18246/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18246/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18032
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-Martin-de-Valamas	07	303 km SE	1,075	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Souesmes	41	47 km W	999	57.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 91 %
Charroux	86	233 km SW	1,036	48.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Maruéjols-et-Avéjan	30	372 km S	889	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Moncontour	86	223 km W	976	58.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Hirel	35	366 km W	1,382	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Souesmes	41	47 km W	999	57.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 91 %
Moncontour	86	223 km W	976	58.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Charroux	86	233 km SW	1,036	48.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Valamas	07	303 km SE	1,075	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hirel	35	366 km W	1,382	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Maruéjols-et-Avéjan	30	372 km S	889	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Savigny-en-Sancerre'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-Martin-de-Valamas	07	303 km SE	1,075	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Santenay	21	154 km E	820	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Champignelles	89	43 km NE	905	58.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lhuis	01	281 km SE	886	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Tramayes	71	186 km SE	1,070	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Deux-Grosnes	69	188 km SE	1,946	58.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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