Orsennes

Indre · CC de la Marche Berrichonne · INSEE 36146

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

Partly served 55.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Orsennes (INSEE 36146) is in Indre (36), part of CC de la Marche Berrichonne. Population 696 (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/36146-orsennes

Vitality score

Vitality score 55.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 16,408 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.26	10	2.62
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.21

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'EPI MARCHOIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICAVE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (ATHEMIE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA FONTAINE). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FAUSTINE PINTON, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

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

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

3 × Hairdresser (SANDRINE COIFFURE DOMICILE · BRIGITTE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L'EPI MARCHOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICAVE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	ATHEMIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA FONTAINE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	FAUSTINE PINTON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ORSENNES 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	3	SANDRINE COIFFURE DOMICILE · BRIGITTE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 1,372 2023: 696 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 785 (2012) → 696 (2023): -11.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 913 (1990) → 696 (2023): -23.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 598, of which 17.9 % second homes and 21.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 9.1 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 (Orsennes): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Orsennes): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Orsennes): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cluis): 9.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Orsennes): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.7

Days at or below 0 °C 53.1

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ORSENNES weather station, 1.7 km away at 315 m; the village itself is at 286 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ORSENNES, 1.7 km away at 315 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

An average of 862 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ORSENNES, 1.7 km away at 315 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 — 36146/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36146/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36146/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36146/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36146
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36056
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
Sardent	23	49 km S	760	56.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Dournazac	87	112 km SW	672	56.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Vézins-de-Lévézou	12	264 km SE	656	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Puycapel	15	203 km S	717	52.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
La Croisille-sur-Briance	87	95 km S	728	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pal-de-Chalencon	43	215 km SE	1,038	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 28 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sardent	23	49 km S	760	56.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
La Croisille-sur-Briance	87	95 km S	728	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Dournazac	87	112 km SW	672	56.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Puycapel	15	203 km S	717	52.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pal-de-Chalencon	43	215 km SE	1,038	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 28 %
Vézins-de-Lévézou	12	264 km SE	656	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · 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 Orsennes'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
La Croisille-sur-Briance	87	95 km S	728	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vollore-Ville	63	166 km SE	718	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sébastien	23	15 km SW	612	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Augerolles	63	171 km SE	862	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sornin-Leulac	87	43 km SW	564	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Arnac-la-Poste	87	33 km SW	902	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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