Poulaines

Indre · CC Chabris - Pays de Bazelle · INSEE 36162

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

Partly served 47.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Poulaines (INSEE 36162) is in Indre (36), part of CC Chabris - Pays de Bazelle. Population 816 (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 47.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 15,532 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.4	10	3.96
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 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) (LES DELICES DU MOULIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (GROUPE SCOLAIRE PUBLIC JOSEPH BARBERON). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (NADINE JAMET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SARL PHARMACIE DAVID RENONCE). ^[3,4]

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

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

3 × Hairdresser (FABRICE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · CARINE COIFF' A VOTRE DOMICILE · POULAINES COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES DELICES DU MOULIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MARCHE DE POULAINES	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	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	GROUPE SCOLAIRE PUBLIC JOSEPH BARBERON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	NADINE JAMET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SARL PHARMACIE DAVID RENONCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	POULAINES 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	FABRICE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · CARINE COIFF' A VOTRE DOMICILE · POULAINES 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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,167 2023: 816 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 897 (2012) → 816 (2023): -9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 911 (1990) → 816 (2023): -10.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 628, of which 12.4 % second homes and 18 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 1.6 km SE 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 (Poulaines): 1.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

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

Pharmacy (Poulaines): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Poulaines): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.1

Days at or below 0 °C 51

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the POULAINES weather station, 4.9 km away at 109 m; the village itself is at 115 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at GUILLY, 11.4 km away at 135 m, over 24 summers. ^[9]

An average of 694 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at POULAINES, 4.9 km away at 109 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36162/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36162/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36162/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36162/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36162
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
Ménigoute	79	150 km SW	846	50.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 91 %
Lhuis	01	335 km SE	886	56.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Grez-en-Bouère	53	183 km NW	980	55.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes	44	225 km W	961	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 88 %
Puisseguin	33	282 km SW	834	53.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvy-Sautour	89	188 km NE	873	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ménigoute	79	150 km SW	846	50.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 91 %
Grez-en-Bouère	53	183 km NW	980	55.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Neuvy-Sautour	89	188 km NE	873	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes	44	225 km W	961	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 88 %
Puisseguin	33	282 km SW	834	53.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Lhuis	01	335 km SE	886	56.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Poulaines'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
Verrières	86	116 km SW	921	65.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Santenay	21	232 km E	820	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Entrains-sur-Nohain	58	125 km E	740	53	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Ternand	69	257 km SE	762	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Sagy	71	284 km E	1,249	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Pellevoisin	36	27 km SW	792	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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