Veaugues

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18272

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

Partly served 41.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Veaugues (INSEE 18272) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 593 (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/18272-veaugues

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 17,106 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.55	10	5.51
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA PAUSE GOURMANDE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LARBI BARBOUCHE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA PAUSE GOURMANDE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PANIER SYMPA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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)	1	LARBI BARBOUCHE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	VEAUGUES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 610 peak 2012: 681 2023: 593 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 681 (2012) → 593 (2023): -12.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 564 (1990) → 593 (2023): 5.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 418, of which 16.5 % second homes and 17.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 10.4 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 (Veaugues): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Veaugues): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Veaugues): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sancerre): 10.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Veaugues): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.4

Days at or below 0 °C 51.3

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the THAUVENAY_SA weather station, 9.3 km away at 195 m; the village itself is at 216 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at THAUVENAY_SA, 9.3 km away at 195 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 857 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at JALOGNES, 4 km away at 207 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 — 18272/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18272/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18272/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18272/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18272
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18241
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
Clelles	38	349 km SE	596	61.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Sauveterre-la-Lémance	47	326 km SW	563	45.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Houeillès	47	401 km SW	559	35.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Sauzet	46	336 km S	531	56	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Crocq	23	157 km S	389	39.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Vailly-sur-Sauldre	18	24 km N	649	48.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vailly-sur-Sauldre	18	24 km N	649	48.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
Crocq	23	157 km S	389	39.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Sauveterre-la-Lémance	47	326 km SW	563	45.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Sauzet	46	336 km S	531	56	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Clelles	38	349 km SE	596	61.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Houeillès	47	401 km SW	559	35.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · 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 Veaugues'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
Ouarville	28	143 km NW	548	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Chavanges	10	194 km NE	567	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Damvillers	55	303 km NE	613	53.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Le Veurdre	03	60 km S	475	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Sommières-du-Clain	86	213 km SW	729	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Le Grand-Pressigny	37	153 km W	872	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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