Vinon

Cher · CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire · INSEE 18287

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

Few services 30.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vinon (INSEE 18287) is in Cher (18), part of CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire. Population 302 (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/18287-vinon

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 17,879 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	0.46	10	4.65
Housing mix	0.4	5	2

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (ERIC GRESSIN BOUCHER CHARCUTIER TRA). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE BAROUDEUR). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1	ERIC GRESSIN BOUCHER CHARCUTIER TRA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 BAROUDEUR	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 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	1	VINON 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 269 peak 1990: 313 2023: 302 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 290 (2012) → 302 (2023): 4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 313 (1990) → 302 (2023): -3.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 230, of which 30 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.9 km NEBakery — 3.9 km NWGP — 4.8 km NPharmacy — 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 (Bué): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vinon): 0.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sancerre): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

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

Primary school (Vinon): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the THAUVENAY_SA weather station, 3.1 km away at 195 m; the village itself is at 183 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at THAUVENAY_SA, 3.1 km away at 195 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 719 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at THAUVENAY_SA, 3.1 km away at 195 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 — 18287/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18287/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18287/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 18287/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18039
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18287
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
Mont-Saint-Vincent	71	145 km SE	308	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Sougères-en-Puisaye	89	48 km NE	289	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Chalinargues	15	237 km S	304	20.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 20 % · humidity 86 %
L'Hospitalet-du-Larzac	12	369 km S	348	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Charchilla	39	237 km E	302	28.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Monestier-du-Percy	38	353 km SE	254	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sougères-en-Puisaye	89	48 km NE	289	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-Saint-Vincent	71	145 km SE	308	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Chalinargues	15	237 km S	304	20.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 20 % · humidity 86 %
Charchilla	39	237 km E	302	28.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Monestier-du-Percy	38	353 km SE	254	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
L'Hospitalet-du-Larzac	12	369 km S	348	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Vinon'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
Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre	18	4.2 km NE	292	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Boigneville	91	122 km N	369	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Privé	89	46 km N	515	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vandenesse	58	82 km SE	287	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rillé	37	195 km W	313	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Montalet-le-Bois	78	209 km N	322	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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