Fransèches

Creuse · CC Creuse Sud Ouest · INSEE 23086

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

No daily shops 13.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fransèches (INSEE 23086) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Sud Ouest. Population 240 (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 13.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 17,060 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.5	10	5.04
Housing mix	0.29	5	1.47

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 [3,4]
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: 341 2023: 240 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 250 (2012) → 240 (2023): -4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 239 (1990) → 240 (2023): 0.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 224, of which 35.3 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.8 km NWPrimary school — 2.8 km SEGP — 3.3 km SWFood shop — 6.5 km NEPharmacy — 6.8 km SW 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 (Fransèches): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lavaveix-les-Mines): 6.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Georges-la-Pouge): 6.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Ars): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.5

Days at or below 0 °C 68.1

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the AHUN LYCEE weather station, 8.5 km away at 460 m; the village itself is at 511 m. ^[13]

The village sits 51 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at AHUN LYCEE, 8.5 km away at 460 m, over 21 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 51 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 976 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at FRANSECHES, 1.1 km away at 500 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23086/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23086/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23086/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23086/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23086
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23105
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23197
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23007
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
Sarrogna	39	278 km E	228	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Sioniac	19	118 km S	246	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Villac	24	111 km SW	295	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 45 % · humidity 64 %
Rives	47	184 km SW	194	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 32 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières	30	267 km SE	194	16.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Sidiailles	18	58 km N	294	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sidiailles	18	58 km N	294	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Villac	24	111 km SW	295	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 45 % · humidity 64 %
Sioniac	19	118 km S	246	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Rives	47	184 km SW	194	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 32 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières	30	267 km SE	194	16.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Sarrogna	39	278 km E	228	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 81 % · 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 Fransèches'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
Saint-Victour	19	67 km SE	199	12.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Charron	23	40 km E	195	4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Cernières	27	345 km N	228	11.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Mortagne	88	435 km NE	196	13.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Champeau-en-Morvan	21	212 km NE	223	4.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Champagnac-la-Noaille	19	79 km S	237	15.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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