Touchay

Cher · CC Berry Grand Sud · INSEE 18266

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

No daily shops 14.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 30 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Touchay (INSEE 18266) is in Cher (18), part of CC Berry Grand Sud. Population 220 (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/18266-touchay

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 16,584 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.27	10	2.69
Housing mix	0.29	5	1.43

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 342 2023: 220 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 278 (2012) → 220 (2023): -20.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 286 (1990) → 220 (2023): -23.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 210, of which 35.7 % second homes and 3.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.4 km EBakery — 2.5 km EFood shop — 5.2 km NWGP — 5.2 km NWPharmacy — 9.5 km SE 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 (Ids-Saint-Roch): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lignières): 5.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lignières): 5.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Châtelet): 9.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Ids-Saint-Roch): 2.4 km to the east (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. ^[11]

Measured at the MAISONNAIS weather station, 4.5 km away at 219 m; the village itself is at 226 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MAISONNAIS, 4.5 km away at 219 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 776 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MAISONNAIS, 4.5 km away at 219 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 — 18266/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18266/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18266/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18266/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18112
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18127
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
Sénezergues	15	223 km S	212	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Freix-Anglards	15	189 km S	215	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 16 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Romain-d'Urfé	42	154 km SE	243	15.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Jean-Roure	07	261 km SE	275	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Lescure-Jaoul	12	276 km S	229	15.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Bazelat	23	65 km SW	221	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bazelat	23	65 km SW	221	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Romain-d'Urfé	42	154 km SE	243	15.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Freix-Anglards	15	189 km S	215	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 16 % · humidity 57 %
Sénezergues	15	223 km S	212	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Jean-Roure	07	261 km SE	275	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Lescure-Jaoul	12	276 km S	229	15.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Touchay'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
Rezay	18	5.1 km SW	204	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Coulonges-les-Hérolles	86	88 km SW	230	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Bize	65	430 km S	208	8.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Thollet	86	89 km W	164	4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léomer	86	98 km W	172	6.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Maisonnais	18	8.0 km S	227	8.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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