Vignoux-sous-les-Aix

Cher · CC Terres du Haut Berry · INSEE 18280

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

Few services 35.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vignoux-sous-les-Aix (INSEE 18280) is in Cher (18), part of CC Terres du Haut Berry. Population 708 (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 35.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 16,345 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	0.63	10	6.35
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE PECHE MIGNON). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	LE PECHE MIGNON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	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: 255 peak 2017: 719 2023: 708 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 709 (2012) → 708 (2023): -0.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 624 (1990) → 708 (2023): 13.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 340, of which 3.8 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.3 km SWGP — 3.9 km NWFood shop — 4.0 km NWPharmacy — 5.3 km N 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 (Pigny): 2.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Menetou-Salon): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Vignoux-sous-les-Aix): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21

Days at or below 0 °C 48.5

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-MARTIN-D'A. weather station, 3.9 km away at 172 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST-MARTIN-D'A., 3.9 km away at 172 m, over 17 summers. ^[12]

An average of 930 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-MARTIN-D'A., 3.9 km away at 172 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18280/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18280/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18280/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18280/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18145
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18280
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
Moulins	35	302 km W	724	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Trelins	42	200 km SE	682	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Surin	79	237 km W	635	37	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Izier	21	206 km E	783	42.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Longchamps	27	250 km N	662	39.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce	41	109 km NW	634	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce	41	109 km NW	634	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Trelins	42	200 km SE	682	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Izier	21	206 km E	783	42.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Surin	79	237 km W	635	37	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Longchamps	27	250 km N	662	39.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Moulins	35	302 km W	724	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · 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 Vignoux-sous-les-Aix'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
Bordes	65	477 km S	752	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Virson	17	282 km SW	731	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-les-Étieux	18	51 km S	729	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Alix	69	219 km SE	777	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Pointis-de-Rivière	31	478 km S	825	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Eysus	64	510 km SW	625	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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