Sens-Beaujeu

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18249

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

Few services 28/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sens-Beaujeu (INSEE 18249) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 403 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 28/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 17,998 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.51	10	5.13
Housing mix	0.42	5	2.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE GALETAS). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SENS BEAUJEU AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Primary school (élémentaire), 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	2	LE GALETAS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	SENS BEAUJEU 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 511 2023: 403 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 423 (2012) → 403 (2023): -4.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 398 (1990) → 403 (2023): 1.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 336, of which 29.2 % second homes and 13.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.4 km NEBakery — 4.7 km SGP — 7.8 km NPharmacy — 9.7 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 (Neuvy-Deux-Clochers): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Menetou-Râtel): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jars): 7.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sancerre): 9.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Sens-Beaujeu): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.5

Days at or below 0 °C 48.9

Muggy days a summer 4.5

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the SANCERRE weather station, 6.7 km away at 240 m; the village itself is at 292 m. ^[13]

The village sits 52 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at SANCERRE, 6.7 km away at 240 m, over 20 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 52 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 925 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at BUE, 6.1 km away at 271 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18249/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18249/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18249/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18249/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18144
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18117
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18241
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18249
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
Aillant-sur-Milleron	45	54 km N	373	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Victor-et-Melvieu	12	364 km S	286	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Verrières	61	188 km NW	408	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes	89	128 km NE	407	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 74 %
Bourg-Bruche	67	350 km E	378	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
La Celle-Guenand	37	144 km W	379	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aillant-sur-Milleron	45	54 km N	373	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes	89	128 km NE	407	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 74 %
La Celle-Guenand	37	144 km W	379	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Verrières	61	188 km NW	408	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 91 %
Bourg-Bruche	67	350 km E	378	27	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Victor-et-Melvieu	12	364 km S	286	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · 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 Sens-Beaujeu'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
Précy	18	30 km SE	353	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Le Chalard	87	232 km SW	302	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Léger-le-Petit	18	32 km SE	362	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Crézancy-en-Sancerre	18	3.4 km SE	417	25.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Menetou-Couture	18	35 km SE	343	11.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Bourdonné	78	177 km NW	506	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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