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Chambois

Eure · CC Interco Normandie Sud Eure · INSEE 27032

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

Few services 24.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chambois (INSEE 27032) is in Eure (27), part of CC Interco Normandie Sud Eure. Population 1,322 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). [2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 2 former communes: Corneuil (27172), Thomer-la-Sôgne (27634). [3]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/27032-chambois

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 12,542 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.2203.93
Education0.39103.93
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.88108.76
Housing mix0.9154.53

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 2 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. [4,5]

1 × Restaurant (RELAIS 154). [4,5]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERN INTERCOMMUNALE D'AVRILLY). [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). [4]

1 × Hairdresser. [4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant1RELAIS 154INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)1ECOLE MATERN INTERCOMMUNALE D'AVRILLYINSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser1INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 609 peak 2017: 1,376 2023: 1,322 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,298 (2012) → 1,322 (2023): 1.8 % over 10 years. [6,1]

Population 961 (1990) → 1,322 (2023): 37.6 % over 30 years. [7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 633, of which 4.7 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. [8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 2.9 km SW (Sylvains-Lès-Moulins)Bakery — 4.7 km NW (Les Ventes)GP — 6.4 km NE (Guichainville)Pharmacy — 6.4 km NE (Prey)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.9 km SWBakery — 4.7 km NWGP — 6.4 km NEPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Les Ventes): 4.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Food shop (Sylvains-Lès-Moulins): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

GP (Guichainville): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

Pharmacy (Prey): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [12]

Primary school (Chambois): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). [13]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [14]

Measured at the GUICHAINVILLE weather station, 5.9 km away at 147 m; the village itself is at 153 m. [14]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [14]

Humidity measured at EVREUX-HUEST, 12 km away at 138 m, over 30 summers. [14]

An average of 664 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 5.5 mm on a day it rains. [14]

Rainfall measured at GUICHAINVILLE, 5.9 km away at 147 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [14]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27032/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE COG 2026
  4. INSEE BPE 2025
  5. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27032/2012
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27032/1990
  8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27032/logement/2023
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 27678
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 27693
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 27306
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 27478
  13. INSEE BPE 2025 — 27032
  14. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bailleau-Armenonville2858 km SE1,29923.2Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Vaugrigneuse9181 km SE1,45829.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Offekerque62232 km N1,29126.5Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Val d'Orger2750 km N98629.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Les Hauts-de-Caux7686 km N1,33124.5Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Pérouges01453 km SE1,38736.1Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Val d'Orger2750 km N98629.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bailleau-Armenonville2858 km SE1,29923.2Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Vaugrigneuse9181 km SE1,45829.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Les Hauts-de-Caux7686 km N1,33124.5Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Offekerque62232 km N1,29126.5Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Pérouges01453 km SE1,38736.1Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · 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 Chambois'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vaugrigneuse9181 km SE1,45829.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Val d'Orger2750 km N98629.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Treis-Sants-en-Ouche2741 km W1,32123Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Chaillac-sur-Vienne87340 km S1,25025.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux77134 km E1,46831Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Pasly02165 km E1,10020.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %