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Saint-Christophe

Eure-et-Loir · CC du Grand Châteaudun · INSEE 28329

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

No daily shops 9.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Christophe (INSEE 28329) is in Eure-et-Loir (28), part of CC du Grand Châteaudun. Population 143 (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/28329-saint-christophe

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 13,700 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 trend0.54105.36
Housing mix0.5252.58

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 130 peak 2017: 159 2023: 143 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 147 (2012) → 143 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 138 (1990) → 143 (2023): 3.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 99, of which 24.2 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.3 km S (Donnemain-Saint-Mamès)GP — 3.0 km SW (Marboué)Bakery — 3.1 km SW (Marboué)Food shop — 4.7 km SW (Châteaudun)Pharmacy — 6.2 km S (Châteaudun)
Primary school — 2.3 km SGP — 3.0 km SWBakery — 3.1 km SWFood shop — 4.7 km SWPharmacy — 6.2 km S 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): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Châteaudun): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Marboué): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Châteaudun): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Donnemain-Saint-Mamès): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). [10]

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 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, 7.3 km away at 126 m; the village itself is at 111 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at CHATEAUDUN, 7.3 km away at 126 m, over 29 summers. [11]

An average of 666 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at BONNEVAL, 5.9 km away at 133 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 — 28329/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28329/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28329/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 28329/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28233
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28088
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28132
  11. 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
Courban21252 km E1408.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Courcelles-Frémoy21223 km E14811.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Charcier39370 km SE13611.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Bazac16337 km S1508.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Sonnac-sur-l'Hers11572 km S13711.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 51 % · humidity 36 %
Rebets76154 km N14713.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Rebets76154 km N14713.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Courcelles-Frémoy21223 km E14811.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Courban21252 km E1408.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Bazac16337 km S1508.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Charcier39370 km SE13611.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Sonnac-sur-l'Hers11572 km S13711.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 51 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Saint-Christophe'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
Courcelles-Frémoy21223 km E14811.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lugny-Champagne18151 km SE1424.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Rosey71295 km SE1567.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Morsains51176 km NE15014.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Thuit27126 km N14415.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Le Grand-Madieu16253 km S1537.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %