Jeu-les-Bois

Indre · CA Châteauroux Métropole · INSEE 36089

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Jeu-les-Bois (INSEE 36089) is in Indre (36), part of CA Châteauroux Métropole. Population 404 (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 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 18,020 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	5	0
Population trend	0.71	10	7.06
Housing mix	0.8	5	4.01

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 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”.

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 343 2023: 404 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 384 (2012) → 404 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 335 (1990) → 404 (2023): 20.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 212, of which 9.9 % second homes and 11.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 6.6 km EFood shop — 6.9 km EGP — 8.0 km NPharmacy — 8.3 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 (Mers-sur-Indre): 6.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mers-sur-Indre): 6.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Ardentes): 8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ardentes): 8.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Jeu-les-Bois): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.5

Days at or below 0 °C 49.1

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the JEU-LES-BOIS-AUTO weather station, 1.3 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 181 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at JEU-LES-BOIS-AUTO, 1.3 km away at 185 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 748 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at JEU-LES-BOIS-AUTO, 1.3 km away at 185 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 — 36089/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36089/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36089/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36089/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36120
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36005
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36089
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
Bazinval	76	365 km N	403	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 81 %
La Chapelle-Moutils	77	262 km NE	400	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Marolles-en-Brie	77	255 km NE	412	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Villard-Saint-Christophe	38	363 km SE	397	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Fourdrain	02	350 km N	404	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Borne	43	234 km SE	403	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Borne	43	234 km SE	403	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Marolles-en-Brie	77	255 km NE	412	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Moutils	77	262 km NE	400	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Fourdrain	02	350 km N	404	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Villard-Saint-Christophe	38	363 km SE	397	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Bazinval	76	365 km N	403	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 81 %

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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 Jeu-les-Bois'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
Oussoy-en-Gâtinais	45	151 km NE	425	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Étaule	89	187 km NE	382	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Balloy	77	217 km NE	359	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Jaulges	89	208 km NE	418	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Tersanne	26	297 km SE	353	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Villereau	45	156 km N	407	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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