Lye

Indre · CC Écueillé-Valençay · INSEE 36107

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

Few services 32.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lye (INSEE 36107) is in Indre (36), part of CC Écueillé-Valençay. Population 758 (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/36107-lye

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 15,957 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.39	10	3.92
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 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) (MAISON PAVARD). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MARCHE DE LYE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DE PAULINE). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MAISON PAVARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MARCHE DE LYE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 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	LYE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	2	L'ATELIER DE PAULINE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 997 2023: 758 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 851 (2012) → 758 (2023): -10.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 850 (1990) → 758 (2023): -10.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 532, of which 13 % second homes and 14.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.6 km SEBakery — 1.4 km SGP — 3.3 km NEPharmacy — 8.0 km NE 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 (Lye): 1.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lye): 0.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Meusnes): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Selles-sur-Cher): 8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Lye): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.8

Days at or below 0 °C 41.1

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LYE weather station, 2 km away at 130 m; the village itself is at 87 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LYE, 2 km away at 130 m, over 27 summers. ^[11]

An average of 660 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LYE, 2 km away at 130 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 — 36107/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36107/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36107/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36107/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36107
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41139
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41242
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
Boisredon	17	263 km SW	711	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Puch-d'Agenais	47	336 km S	718	35.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Torcé-Viviers-en-Charnie	53	162 km NW	768	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 86 %
Lignières-Orgères	53	193 km NW	719	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Jean-sur-Reyssouze	01	288 km E	762	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 70 %
Château-Chervix	87	181 km S	781	33.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Torcé-Viviers-en-Charnie	53	162 km NW	768	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 86 %
Château-Chervix	87	181 km S	781	33.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Lignières-Orgères	53	193 km NW	719	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 97 %
Boisredon	17	263 km SW	711	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Jean-sur-Reyssouze	01	288 km E	762	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 70 %
Puch-d'Agenais	47	336 km S	718	35.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Lye'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
Vicq-sur-Gartempe	86	73 km SW	658	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Champagné-Saint-Hilaire	86	134 km SW	998	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Crevant	36	90 km SE	705	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Naillat	23	108 km S	687	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Brux	86	147 km SW	777	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Chéniers	23	101 km S	554	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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