Villard

Creuse · CC du Pays Dunois · INSEE 23263

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

No daily shops 17.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villard (INSEE 23263) is in Creuse (23), part of CC du Pays Dunois. Population 381 (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 17.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 18,018 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	0.62	10	6.17
Housing mix	0.46	5	2.32

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 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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	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 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	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	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: 457 2023: 381 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 354 (2012) → 381 (2023): 7.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 341 (1990) → 381 (2023): 11.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 254, of which 26.8 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km SWFood shop — 3.9 km SWPharmacy — 3.9 km SWGP — 4.1 km SWBakery — 5.8 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 (Fresselines): 5.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Dun-le-Palestel): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dun-le-Palestel): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Dun-le-Palestel): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Dun-le-Palestel): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

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, 3.1 km away at 365 m; the village itself is at 321 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at DUN LE PALESTEL, 3.1 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, 3.1 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 — 23263/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23263/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23263/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23263/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23087
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
Ver	50	367 km NW	386	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Beaufour-Druval	14	344 km N	453	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Neuve	22	452 km NW	413	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Castéra-Lectourois	32	276 km S	329	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Bitry	58	166 km NE	308	16.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Vijon	36	34 km E	300	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vijon	36	34 km E	300	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Bitry	58	166 km NE	308	16.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Castéra-Lectourois	32	276 km S	329	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Beaufour-Druval	14	344 km N	453	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Ver	50	367 km NW	386	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Neuve	22	452 km NW	413	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · 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 Villard'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
Sommecaise	89	205 km NE	388	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Favril	28	241 km N	360	11.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-aux-Choux	72	183 km NW	283	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bœurs-en-Othe	89	251 km NE	334	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Boussay	37	84 km NW	237	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chéronnac	87	96 km SW	314	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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