Pruniers

Indre · CC Champagne Boischauts · INSEE 36169

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

Few services 26.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pruniers (INSEE 36169) is in Indre (36), part of CC Champagne Boischauts. Population 496 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/36169-pruniers

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 17,779 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.6	10	6.05
Housing mix	0.72	5	3.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX 6 EPIS). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX 6 EPIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	PRUNIERS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 638 2023: 496 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 558 (2012) → 496 (2023): -11.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 449 (1990) → 496 (2023): 10.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 344, of which 14 % second homes and 19.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 6.5 km NEPharmacy — 6.5 km NEGP — 9.0 km SW 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 (Pruniers): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chezal-Benoît): 6.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Août): 9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Chezal-Benoît): 6.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.9

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-CHRISTOPHE weather station, 13.5 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 166 m. ^[11]

The village sits 99 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ISSOUDUN, 17.9 km away at 138 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

An average of 791 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PRUNIERS, 0.3 km away at 164 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 — 36169/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36169/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36169/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36169/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36169
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18065
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36180
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
Bassac	16	208 km SW	529	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Fort-du-Plasne	39	301 km E	484	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Gouex	86	114 km SW	487	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
La Taillée	85	232 km W	550	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sonnac	17	207 km SW	512	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Apremont-la-Forêt	55	353 km NE	427	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gouex	86	114 km SW	487	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Sonnac	17	207 km SW	512	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Bassac	16	208 km SW	529	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
La Taillée	85	232 km W	550	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fort-du-Plasne	39	301 km E	484	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Apremont-la-Forêt	55	353 km NE	427	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 27 % · 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 Pruniers'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
Gouex	86	114 km SW	487	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
La Taillée	85	232 km W	550	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeure-d'Ay	07	275 km SE	495	40	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Verneuil-sur-Indre	37	82 km W	466	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Barrou	37	98 km W	478	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Melleran	79	173 km SW	480	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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