Torteron

Cher · CC Portes du Berry entre Loire et Val d'Aubois · INSEE 18265

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

Few services 33.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Torteron (INSEE 18265) is in Cher (18), part of CC Portes du Berry entre Loire et Val d'Aubois. Population 785 (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/18265-torteron

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 15,759 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.49	10	4.9
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.2

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 1 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) (MAISON CAILLOT). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (COULEUR CAFFEE). ^[4]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MAISON CAILLOT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	COULEUR CAFFEE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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	TORTERON 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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 869 peak 1975: 871 2023: 785 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 823 (2012) → 785 (2023): -4.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 793 (1990) → 785 (2023): -1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 449, of which 8 % second homes and 10.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 0.5 km SEPharmacy — 3.0 km NEFood shop — 3.1 km NEGP — 8.4 km S 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 (Torteron): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Jouet-sur-l'Aubois): 3.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois): 8.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Jouet-sur-l'Aubois): 3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Torteron): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.9

Days at or below 0 °C 39.4

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the OUROUER-LES-B. weather station, 15.9 km away at 253 m; the village itself is at 189 m. ^[11]

The village sits 64 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at OUROUER, 16.3 km away at 221 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA GUERCHE, 7.2 km away at 185 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 — 18265/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18265/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18265/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18265/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18265
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18118
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18108
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
Culin	38	242 km SE	790	42.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Port-Mort	27	265 km NW	889	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Crancey	10	174 km N	691	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Jauldes	16	249 km SW	847	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Brachy	76	344 km NW	663	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Draché	37	177 km W	698	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Crancey	10	174 km N	691	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Draché	37	177 km W	698	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Culin	38	242 km SE	790	42.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Jauldes	16	249 km SW	847	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Port-Mort	27	265 km NW	889	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Brachy	76	344 km NW	663	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Torteron'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
Jauldes	16	249 km SW	847	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Coulgens	16	246 km SW	558	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Romans-lès-Melle	79	257 km W	729	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Courbillac	16	278 km SW	725	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Genac-Bignac	16	263 km SW	974	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Challonges	74	246 km SE	610	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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