La Berthenoux

Indre · CC de la Châtre et Sainte-Sévère · INSEE 36017

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

No daily shops 18.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Berthenoux (INSEE 36017) is in Indre (36), part of CC de la Châtre et Sainte-Sévère. Population 361 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/36017-la-berthenoux

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 18,032 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.27	10	2.73
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

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

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA BERTHENOUX AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LA BERTHENOUX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 743 2023: 361 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 441 (2012) → 361 (2023): -18.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 467 (1990) → 361 (2023): -22.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 319, of which 18.2 % second homes and 21 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.9 km NEBakery — 5.0 km NEGP — 5.1 km NEPharmacy — 10.1 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 (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montgivray): 10.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Berthenoux): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.6

Days at or below 0 °C 48

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-CHRISTOPHE weather station, 5.2 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 245 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONTGIVRAY, 8.7 km away at 204 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 854 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-CHRISTOPHE, 5.2 km away at 265 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 — 36017/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36017/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36017/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36017/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36127
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36017
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
Nolay	58	109 km NE	353	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Dussac	24	160 km SW	427	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Méard	87	118 km S	366	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Fromental	87	76 km SW	524	20.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Villedieu-le-Château	41	159 km NW	381	24.7	Few services	no figures
La Chapelle-Faucher	24	176 km SW	395	19	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fromental	87	76 km SW	524	20.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Nolay	58	109 km NE	353	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Méard	87	118 km S	366	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Villedieu-le-Château	41	159 km NW	381	24.7	Few services	no figures
Dussac	24	160 km SW	427	21	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Faucher	24	176 km SW	395	19	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %

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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 La Berthenoux'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
Épeigné-les-Bois	37	100 km NW	401	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire-la-Treille	87	73 km SW	361	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Paulnay	36	73 km W	348	10.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Arpheuilles-Saint-Priest	03	68 km SE	383	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Molières	46	208 km S	357	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Baudres	36	58 km NW	397	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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