Bazaiges

Indre · CC Éguzon - Argenton - Vallée de la Creuse · INSEE 36014

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

No daily shops 15.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bazaiges (INSEE 36014) is in Indre (36), part of CC Éguzon - Argenton - Vallée de la Creuse. Population 229 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 15.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 16,761 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.44	10	4.39
Housing mix	0.44	5	2.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

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, 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	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 382 2023: 229 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 221 (2012) → 229 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 244 (1990) → 229 (2023): -6.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 180, of which 27.8 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.4 km NWFood shop — 6.3 km NEBakery — 6.4 km NEGP — 7.5 km SEPharmacy — 8.8 km N 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 (Badecon-le-Pin): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Badecon-le-Pin): 6.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Éguzon-Chantôme): 7.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Pêchereau): 8.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Celon): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.2

Days at or below 0 °C 47.3

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the EGUZON weather station, 7.9 km away at 272 m; the village itself is at 266 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ARGENTON, 8.6 km away at 178 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 88 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 934 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at EGUZON, 7.9 km away at 272 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 — 36014/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36014/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36014/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36014/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36158
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36070
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36154
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36033
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
Boussay	37	62 km NW	237	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Le Mesnil-Garnier	50	338 km NW	220	14.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Serres-et-Montguyard	24	220 km SW	231	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Rayssac	81	306 km S	234	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Alleuze	15	209 km SE	224	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Plouzélambre	22	449 km NW	198	15.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boussay	37	62 km NW	237	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Alleuze	15	209 km SE	224	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Serres-et-Montguyard	24	220 km SW	231	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Rayssac	81	306 km S	234	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Le Mesnil-Garnier	50	338 km NW	220	14.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Plouzélambre	22	449 km NW	198	15.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 57 % · 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 Bazaiges'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
Boussay	37	62 km NW	237	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Rayssac	81	306 km S	234	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Pouligny-Saint-Martin	36	37 km E	235	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sennevières	37	75 km NW	226	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Chatain	86	97 km SW	240	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bitry	58	161 km NE	308	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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