Colondannes

Creuse · CC du Pays Dunois · INSEE 23065

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

No daily shops 15.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Colondannes (INSEE 23065) is in Creuse (23), part of CC du Pays Dunois. Population 289 (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 15.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 17,765 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	0.33	10	3.33
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.31

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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 × Café / bar (AUBERGE DU PRIEURE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[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, Restaurant, 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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	1	AUBERGE DU PRIEURE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 376 2023: 289 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 282 (2012) → 289 (2023): 2.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 347 (1990) → 289 (2023): -16.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 231, of which 16.9 % second homes and 26 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.2 km SEBakery — 3.4 km SEPharmacy — 4.6 km NEFood shop — 4.7 km NEGP — 4.7 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 (Naillat): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Dun-le-Palestel): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dun-le-Palestel): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Dun-le-Palestel): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Naillat): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 50.8

Muggy days a summer 2.1

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DUN LE PALESTEL weather station, 5.5 km away at 365 m; the village itself is at 360 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at DUN LE PALESTEL, 5.5 km away at 365 m, over 16 summers. ^[10]

An average of 917 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at DUN LE PALESTEL, 5.5 km away at 365 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 — 23065/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23065/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23065/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23065/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23141
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23075
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
Coudroy	45	192 km N	291	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 100 %
Les Roches-l'Évêque	41	174 km N	300	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 93 %
Cahuzac	47	199 km SW	308	19.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 69 %
Bescat	64	387 km SW	255	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Bertrambois	54	479 km NE	320	16.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Bossieu	38	291 km E	326	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Roches-l'Évêque	41	174 km N	300	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 93 %
Coudroy	45	192 km N	291	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 100 %
Cahuzac	47	199 km SW	308	19.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 69 %
Bossieu	38	291 km E	326	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Bescat	64	387 km SW	255	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Bertrambois	54	479 km NE	320	16.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Colondannes'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
Tournavaux	08	463 km NE	234	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Séry-Magneval	60	343 km N	269	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Dehault	72	228 km N	241	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Escorpain	28	272 km N	223	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Villemagne	11	328 km S	236	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Vauchamps	51	325 km NE	338	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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