Chambonchard

Creuse · CC Creuse Confluence · INSEE 23046

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

No daily shops 12.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chambonchard (INSEE 23046) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Confluence. Population 83 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 12.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 8,780 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	5	0
Population trend	0.22	10	2.16
Housing mix	0.44	5	2.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	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: 175 2023: 83 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 86 (2012) → 83 (2023): -3.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 116 (1990) → 83 (2023): -28.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 78, of which 28.2 % second homes and 21.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.3 km NEGP — 4.6 km SEBakery — 5.1 km WFood shop — 5.1 km WPharmacy — 5.1 km W 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 (Évaux-les-Bains): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Évaux-les-Bains): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Marcel-en-Marcillat): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Évaux-les-Bains): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Petite-Marche): 2.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.9

Days at or below 0 °C 89.5

Muggy days a summer 3.1

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 90 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHAMBON VOUEIZE weather station, 9.9 km away at 329 m; the village itself is at 322 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at AUZANCES_SAPC, 17.9 km away at 564 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 242 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 876 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHAMBONCHARD, 0.1 km away at 320 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 — 23046/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23046/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23046/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23046/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03244
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03206
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
Marcilly-et-Dracy	21	201 km NE	84	15.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Tintry	71	171 km NE	80	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Courris	81	247 km S	80	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Les Rouges-Eaux	88	396 km NE	80	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Haux	64	437 km SW	84	14.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 20 % · humidity 0 %
Verneuil	16	150 km W	92	14.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 16 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Verneuil	16	150 km W	92	14.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 16 % · humidity 93 %
Tintry	71	171 km NE	80	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Marcilly-et-Dracy	21	201 km NE	84	15.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Courris	81	247 km S	80	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Les Rouges-Eaux	88	396 km NE	80	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Haux	64	437 km SW	84	14.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 20 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Chambonchard'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
Les Rouges-Eaux	88	396 km NE	80	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Montagna-le-Reconduit	39	220 km E	108	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Auge	23	19 km W	92	5.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Pontcharraud	23	41 km SW	82	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-de-Lixy	71	130 km E	91	8.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Bois-de-Champ	88	395 km NE	105	11	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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