Moléans

Eure-et-Loir · CC du Grand Châteaudun · INSEE 28256

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 8.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moléans (INSEE 28256) is in Eure-et-Loir (28), part of CC du Grand Châteaudun. Population 433 (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 8.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 17,915 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.35	10	3.49
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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	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 [3,4]
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]
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: 268 peak 1990: 510 2023: 433 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 475 (2012) → 433 (2023): -8.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 510 (1990) → 433 (2023): -15.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 240, of which 10.4 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.9 km SWGP — 4.5 km WBakery — 4.7 km WFood shop — 4.8 km SWPharmacy — 5.7 km SW 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 (Marboué): 4.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Châteaudun): 4.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Marboué): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Châteaudun): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Donnemain-Saint-Mamès): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14

Days at or below 0 °C 49.8

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHATEAUDUN weather station, 6 km away at 126 m; the village itself is at 118 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHATEAUDUN, 6 km away at 126 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 618 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAUDUN, 6 km away at 126 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28256/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28256/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28256/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28256/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28233
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28088
INSEE BPE 2025 — 28132
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
Maisons	14	206 km NW	435	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Sausseuzemare-en-Caux	76	189 km NW	425	12.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 80 %
Givraines	45	73 km E	423	14	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Trizay-Coutretot-Saint-Serge	28	44 km NW	430	9.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Bessamorel	43	391 km SE	432	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Lugaignac	33	387 km S	433	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trizay-Coutretot-Saint-Serge	28	44 km NW	430	9.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Givraines	45	73 km E	423	14	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Sausseuzemare-en-Caux	76	189 km NW	425	12.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 80 %
Maisons	14	206 km NW	435	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Lugaignac	33	387 km S	433	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %
Bessamorel	43	391 km SE	432	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 46 % · 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 Moléans'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
Argenvières	18	163 km SE	448	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Léger-de-Rôtes	27	123 km NW	441	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Essises	02	177 km NE	399	13.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Wolschwiller	68	455 km E	431	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Ciran	37	124 km S	425	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Julien-de-la-Liègue	27	114 km N	421	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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