Verdigny

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18274

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

Few services 24.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Verdigny (INSEE 18274) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 313 (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/18274-verdigny

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 17,885 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.55	10	5.47
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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]

1 × Restaurant (L'AUBERGE DU VIGNERON). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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	1	L'AUBERGE DU VIGNERON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 323 2023: 313 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 302 (2012) → 313 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 299 (1990) → 313 (2023): 4.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 198, of which 19.2 % second homes and 15.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.2 km NFood shop — 2.5 km SEGP — 2.7 km SEPharmacy — 2.9 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 (Sury-en-Vaux): 2.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sancerre): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sancerre): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sancerre): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Verdigny): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.2

Days at or below 0 °C 45.7

Muggy days a summer 5.2

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SANCERRE weather station, 1.6 km away at 240 m; the village itself is at 251 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SANCERRE, 1.6 km away at 240 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 884 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SANCERRE, 1.6 km away at 240 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 — 18274/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18274/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18274/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18274/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18258
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18241
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18274
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-Geneys-près-Saint-Paulien	43	255 km S	313	28.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 26 % · humidity 64 %
Vauxrenard	69	189 km SE	311	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Urbeis	67	347 km E	309	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
La Cresse	12	354 km S	333	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Baron	30	384 km S	337	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 79 %
Boô-Silhen	65	532 km SW	312	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 81 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vauxrenard	69	189 km SE	311	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Geneys-près-Saint-Paulien	43	255 km S	313	28.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 26 % · humidity 64 %
Urbeis	67	347 km E	309	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
La Cresse	12	354 km S	333	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Baron	30	384 km S	337	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 79 %
Boô-Silhen	65	532 km SW	312	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 81 %

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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 Verdigny'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
Souvigny-de-Touraine	37	130 km W	380	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Izaut-de-l'Hôtel	31	508 km S	298	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Plessis-l'Évêque	77	184 km N	291	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Jongieux	73	291 km SE	289	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Eslourenties-Daban	64	506 km SW	380	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Gemme-en-Sancerrois	18	5.1 km N	400	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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