Pouligny-Saint-Pierre

Indre · CC Brenne - Val de Creuse · INSEE 36165

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

Few services 30.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pouligny-Saint-Pierre (INSEE 36165) is in Indre (36), part of CC Brenne - Val de Creuse. Population 1,023 (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 30.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 14,148 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.56	10	5.63
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE BENAVENT). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA PETITE AUBERGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'AUBERGE). ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (POULIGNY ST PIERRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE - POULIGNY). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE BENAVENT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	1	LA PETITE AUBERGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'AUBERGE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LOUIS LAURIAN TOURAINE	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	POULIGNY ST PIERRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE - POULIGNY	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		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 1,018 peak 2012: 1,075 2023: 1,023 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,075 (2012) → 1,023 (2023): -4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 962 (1990) → 1,023 (2023): 6.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 649, of which 15.9 % second homes and 10.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.1 km SWFood shop — 4.2 km WGP — 5.1 km SEPharmacy — 5.6 km S 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 (Pouligny-Saint-Pierre): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fontgombault): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Blanc): 5.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Le Blanc): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Pouligny-Saint-Pierre): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 31.4

Days at or below 0 °C 38.9

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE BLANC weather station, 5.5 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 117 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BLANC-ARCI, 7.3 km away at 108 m, over 17 summers. ^[11]

An average of 792 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE BLANC, 5.5 km away at 117 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 — 36165/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36165/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36165/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36165/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36165
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36018
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
Monthou-sur-Cher	41	77 km N	986	44	Partly served	no figures
Marçon	72	121 km N	1,057	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 93 %
Saint-Bômer-les-Forges	61	252 km NW	1,023	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Épargnes	17	190 km SW	947	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 43 %
Pompignan	30	380 km SE	908	48.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Cabrières-d'Aigues	84	475 km SE	946	51.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Monthou-sur-Cher	41	77 km N	986	44	Partly served	no figures
Marçon	72	121 km N	1,057	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 93 %
Épargnes	17	190 km SW	947	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Bômer-les-Forges	61	252 km NW	1,023	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Pompignan	30	380 km SE	908	48.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Cabrières-d'Aigues	84	475 km SE	946	51.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · 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 Pouligny-Saint-Pierre'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
Lens-Lestang	26	346 km SE	884	48.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cour-et-Buis	38	336 km SE	920	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lapeyrouse-Mornay	26	341 km SE	1,178	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Clairvaux-d'Aveyron	12	272 km SE	1,158	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Genac-Bignac	16	126 km SW	974	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Chaveyriat	01	313 km E	1,078	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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