Lucé

Eure-et-Loir · CA Chartres Métropole · INSEE 28218

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 53.1/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lucé (INSEE 28218) is in Eure-et-Loir (28), part of CA Chartres Métropole. Population 15,921 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/28218-luce

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Pharmacy).

Better served than 18 % of the 1,530 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	0.53	25	13.34
Social	0.62	20	12.49
Education	0.46	10	4.65
Health	0.54	10	5.45
Public & culture	0.17	5	0.85
Population trend	0.35	10	3.47
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

8 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CATHERINE ET THIERRY BRUNA · LES GOURMANDISES DU VIEUX PUITS · BEST OF BREAD CHARTRES · AURICAM · LA TARTE IN). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE MARRAKECH · LA BELLE ROUGE). ^[3,4]

11 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ATLANTIS · SARL LE PRIMEUR · HALAL MARKET · LE PRIMEUR · SOUK EL NOUR). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

22 × Restaurant (BROCELIANDE · PIZZA VENEZIA · TONTON · SHUN FA · EURL L'AMUSE BOUCHE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LE BALTO · LE CHIQUITO · HOTEL DU CENTRE BAR DES SPORTS). ^[4]

3 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LES BEGUINES · ECOLE MATERNELLE MAURICE VIOLLETTE · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LES LUTINS). ^[3]

5 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN ZAY · ECOL PRIM JEAN JAURES · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN MACE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MENDES FRANCE). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE LES PETITS SENTIERS · COLLEGE EDOUARD HERRIOT). ^[3]

12 × GP (médecin généraliste) (IOANA-ANDREEA BOGHIAN, MÉDECIN · ZOUHAIER GDISSA, MÉDECIN · CHAFIA KARTOBI, MÉDECIN · JEAN-YVES BACHELIER, MÉDECIN · DANIELA ANA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU CARRE D'OR · PHARMACIE DE LA REPUBLIQUE · PHARMACIE DU GEANT LUCE). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GEORGE-SAND). ^[3]

4 × Gym / sports hall (STADE JEAN BOUDRIE · LYCEE PHILIBERT DE L ORME · STADE DES PETITS SENTIERS · STADE FRANCOIS RICHOUX). ^[3]

9 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DU CENTRE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUT AGRIC DU CTRE · CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL LUCE MAINVILLIERS · AGENCE LUCE REPUBLIQUE · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT VAL FRANCE). ^[3]

11 × Hairdresser (JEAN-GUILLAUME AUBRY · UNIVERS DE COIFFURE · VP COIFFURE · CLEAR COIFFURE · L'ATELIER DE GABRIELA). ^[3,4]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL IBIS CHARTRES OUEST LUCE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 10 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 2 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	8	CATHERINE ET THIERRY BRUNA · LES GOURMANDISES DU VIEUX PUITS · BEST OF BREAD CHARTRES · AURICAM · LA TARTE IN	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	LE MARRAKECH · LA BELLE ROUGE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	11	ATLANTIS · SARL LE PRIMEUR · HALAL MARKET · LE PRIMEUR · SOUK EL NOUR	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	INTERMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	22	BROCELIANDE · PIZZA VENEZIA · TONTON · SHUN FA · EURL L'AMUSE BOUCHE	INSEE BPE 22 / INSEE SIRENE 38 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LE BALTO · LE CHIQUITO · HOTEL DU CENTRE BAR DES SPORTS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	3	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LES BEGUINES · ECOLE MATERNELLE MAURICE VIOLLETTE · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LES LUTINS	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	5	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN ZAY · ECOL PRIM JEAN JAURES · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN MACE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MENDES FRANCE	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE LES PETITS SENTIERS · COLLEGE EDOUARD HERRIOT	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	12	IOANA-ANDREEA BOGHIAN, MÉDECIN · ZOUHAIER GDISSA, MÉDECIN · CHAFIA KARTOBI, MÉDECIN · JEAN-YVES BACHELIER, MÉDECIN · DANIELA ANA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 12 [3]
Pharmacy	3	PHARMACIE DU CARRE D'OR · PHARMACIE DE LA REPUBLIQUE · PHARMACIE DU GEANT LUCE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GEORGE-SAND	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	4	STADE JEAN BOUDRIE · LYCEE PHILIBERT DE L ORME · STADE DES PETITS SENTIERS · STADE FRANCOIS RICHOUX	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	9	CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DU CENTRE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUT AGRIC DU CTRE · CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL LUCE MAINVILLIERS · AGENCE LUCE REPUBLIQUE · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT VAL FRANCE	INSEE BPE 9 [3]
Hairdresser	11	JEAN-GUILLAUME AUBRY · UNIVERS DE COIFFURE · VP COIFFURE · CLEAR COIFFURE · L'ATELIER DE GABRIELA	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 17 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL IBIS CHARTRES OUEST LUCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 11,085 peak 1990: 18,796 2023: 15,921 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 16,551 (2012) → 15,921 (2023): -3.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 18,796 (1990) → 15,921 (2023): -15.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 8,830, of which 1.1 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Lucé): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lucé): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lucé): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lucé): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Lucé): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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. ^[9]

Measured at the CHARTRES weather station, 3.8 km away at 155 m; the village itself is at 157 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CHARTRES, 3.8 km away at 155 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 622 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CHARTRES, 3.8 km away at 155 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Pharmacy

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28218/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28218/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28218/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28218/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28218
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
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps	37	129 km SW	15,898	58.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bourget	93	90 km NE	15,925	64.1	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Vauréal	95	78 km NE	16,079	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Sin-le-Noble	59	245 km NE	16,076	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 97 %
Francheville	69	391 km SE	15,604	49.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Leu-la-Forêt	95	86 km NE	16,138	59.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vauréal	95	78 km NE	16,079	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Leu-la-Forêt	95	86 km NE	16,138	59.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Le Bourget	93	90 km NE	15,925	64.1	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps	37	129 km SW	15,898	58.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Sin-le-Noble	59	245 km NE	16,076	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 97 %
Francheville	69	391 km SE	15,604	49.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Lucé'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
Vauréal	95	78 km NE	16,079	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Noisiel	77	97 km NE	16,053	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Vésinet	78	71 km NE	15,554	62.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Montmagny	95	88 km NE	15,105	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt	95	91 km NE	15,063	63.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Arnouville	95	93 km NE	15,023	70.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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