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Montigny-le-Chartif

Eure-et-Loir · CC Entre Beauce et Perche · INSEE 28261

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

No daily shops 12.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montigny-le-Chartif (INSEE 28261) is in Eure-et-Loir (28), part of CC Entre Beauce et Perche. Population 586 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/28261-montigny-le-chartif

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 17,201 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
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.77107.68
Housing mix0.5452.68

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 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 542 peak 2012: 643 2023: 586 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 643 (2012) → 586 (2023): -8.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 462 (1990) → 586 (2023): 26.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 341, of which 23.2 % second homes and 2.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 4.5 km W (Frazé)Bakery — 6.4 km W (Chassant)Primary school — 6.8 km W (Chassant)GP — 7.0 km E (Illiers-Combray)Pharmacy — 7.9 km E (Illiers-Combray)
Food shop — 4.5 km WBakery — 6.4 km WPrimary school — 6.8 km WGP — 7.0 km EPharmacy — 7.9 km E 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 (Chassant): 6.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Frazé): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Illiers-Combray): 7 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Illiers-Combray): 7.9 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Chassant): 6.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

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 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the BLANDAINVILLE weather station, 8.9 km away at 163 m; the village itself is at 187 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at BLANDAINVILLE, 8.9 km away at 163 m, over 24 summers. [11]

An average of 696 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ILLIERS-COMBRAY, 7.4 km away at 170 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28261/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28261/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28261/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28261/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28086
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28161
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28196
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Le Givre85279 km SW53515.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Hymer14129 km NW65610.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Fort-Moville27128 km NW50114.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ambenay2769 km NW54410.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 80 %
Yèvre-la-Ville4588 km E6528.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 96 %
La Table73493 km SE44514.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 4 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ambenay2769 km NW54410.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 80 %
Yèvre-la-Ville4588 km E6528.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 96 %
Fort-Moville27128 km NW50114.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hymer14129 km NW65610.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Le Givre85279 km SW53515.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 77 %
La Table73493 km SE44514.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 4 % · 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 Montigny-le-Chartif'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
Fort-Moville27128 km NW50114.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Celles-sur-Ource10242 km E49010No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Maraye-en-Othe10201 km E4239.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir2825 km SE41112.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Amné7294 km W56916.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Cerisy80210 km NE52622.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %