Bouges-le-Château

Indre · CC Levroux Boischaut Champagne · INSEE 36023

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 23.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bouges-le-Château (INSEE 36023) is in Indre (36), part of CC Levroux Boischaut Champagne. Population 261 (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 23.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 17,386 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.35	10	3.47
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA FOURNEE DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BOUGES LE CHATEAU AP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA FOURNEE DU CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	BOUGES LE CHATEAU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 501 2023: 261 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 286 (2012) → 261 (2023): -8.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 308 (1990) → 261 (2023): -15.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 187, of which 17.1 % second homes and 13.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 8.2 km SWGP — 8.3 km SWPharmacy — 8.8 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 (Bouges-le-Château): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Levroux): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Levroux): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Levroux): 8.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bouges-le-Château): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.5

Days at or below 0 °C 48

Muggy days a summer 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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the GUILLY weather station, 7.3 km away at 135 m; the village itself is at 130 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GUILLY, 7.3 km away at 135 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

An average of 693 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GUILLY, 7.3 km away at 135 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36023/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36023/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36023/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36023/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36093
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
Montillot	89	164 km E	247	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Champignol-lez-Mondeville	10	256 km NE	260	18.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Houdelaincourt	55	329 km NE	281	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Tuzan	33	337 km SW	263	25.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Chevillé	72	115 km NW	334	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 86 %
Arracourt	54	408 km NE	254	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pierre-de-Chevillé	72	115 km NW	334	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 86 %
Montillot	89	164 km E	247	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Champignol-lez-Mondeville	10	256 km NE	260	18.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Houdelaincourt	55	329 km NE	281	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Tuzan	33	337 km SW	263	25.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 76 %
Arracourt	54	408 km NE	254	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · 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 Bouges-le-Château'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
Montillot	89	164 km E	247	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Houdelaincourt	55	329 km NE	281	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cerneux	77	222 km NE	272	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chassagne-Montrachet	21	232 km E	261	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chassillé	72	173 km NW	249	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre	18	95 km E	292	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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