Berchères-Saint-Germain

Eure-et-Loir · CA Chartres Métropole · INSEE 28034

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

Few services 32.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Berchères-Saint-Germain (INSEE 28034) is in Eure-et-Loir (28), part of CA Chartres Métropole. Population 905 (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 32.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 14,940 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.68

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE RELAIS SAINT GERMAIN). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), 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]
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	LE RELAIS SAINT GERMAIN	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
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: 325 2023: 905 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 766 (2012) → 905 (2023): 18.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 594 (1990) → 905 (2023): 52.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 404, of which 3.2 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.6 km NWFood shop — 3.9 km NEBakery — 5.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.7 km SEGP — 5.8 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 (Jouy): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bouglainval): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Prest): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Jouy): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Berchères-Saint-Germain): 0.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 44.1

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CHARTRES weather station, 8.4 km away at 155 m; the village itself is at 160 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CHARTRES, 8.4 km away at 155 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 622 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CHARTRES, 8.4 km away at 155 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28034/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28034/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28034/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28034/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28358
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28034
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
Sort-en-Chalosse	40	571 km S	885	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 85 % · humidity 0 %
Fauillet	47	466 km S	864	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	56 km NW	871	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fatines	72	100 km SW	929	32.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Marquefave	31	580 km S	991	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Garnay	28	22 km NW	1,019	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Garnay	28	22 km NW	1,019	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	56 km NW	871	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fatines	72	100 km SW	929	32.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Fauillet	47	466 km S	864	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Sort-en-Chalosse	40	571 km S	885	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 85 % · humidity 0 %
Marquefave	31	580 km S	991	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Berchères-Saint-Germain'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
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	56 km NW	871	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Garnay	28	22 km NW	1,019	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Mailloc	14	106 km NW	1,040	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois	77	109 km E	1,009	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Père	58	166 km SE	1,056	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Savas	07	435 km SE	896	42.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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