Sermur

Creuse · CC Marche et Combraille en Aquitaine · INSEE 23171

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

No daily shops 10.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sermur (INSEE 23171) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Marche et Combraille en Aquitaine. Population 102 (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 10.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 10,792 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	0.23	10	2.34
Housing mix	0.21	5	1.04

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: 238 2023: 102 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 120 (2012) → 102 (2023): -15 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 139 (1990) → 102 (2023): -26.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 139, of which 39.6 % second homes and 20.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 5.9 km EPharmacy — 7.6 km SEFood shop — 7.7 km SEPrimary school — 7.8 km SEGP — 7.8 km SE 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 (Les Mars): 5.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mérinchal): 7.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mérinchal): 7.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Mérinchal): 7.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mérinchal): 7.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.3

Days at or below 0 °C 64.3

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LUPERSAT_SAPC weather station, 3.2 km away at 610 m; the village itself is at 682 m. ^[10]

The village sits 72 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at AUZANCES_SAPC, 7 km away at 564 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 118 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 941 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LUPERSAT_SAPC, 3.2 km away at 610 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 — 23171/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23171/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23171/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23171/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23123
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23131
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
Varenne-l'Arconce	71	139 km E	110	11.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Signy-Montlibert	08	455 km NE	93	13.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Saint-Hérent	63	80 km SE	111	14.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Fourtou	11	341 km S	77	17.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Fraissines	81	223 km S	90	12.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 88 %
Montfroc	26	322 km SE	100	11.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 7 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Hérent	63	80 km SE	111	14.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Varenne-l'Arconce	71	139 km E	110	11.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Fraissines	81	223 km S	90	12.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 88 %
Montfroc	26	322 km SE	100	11.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 7 % · humidity 100 %
Fourtou	11	341 km S	77	17.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Signy-Montlibert	08	455 km NE	93	13.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %

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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 Sermur'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
Pressy-sous-Dondin	71	170 km E	101	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vitry-Laché	58	162 km NE	103	4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Azat-Châtenet	23	53 km W	108	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Marie	15	127 km S	98	4.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Poët-Sigillat	26	288 km SE	114	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Isenay	58	142 km NE	94	5.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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