Roussines

Indre · CC Marche Occitane - Val d'Anglin · INSEE 36174

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 16.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Roussines (INSEE 36174) is in Indre (36), part of CC Marche Occitane - Val d'Anglin. Population 355 (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/36174-roussines

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 18,079 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.29	10	2.89
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.39

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 525 2023: 355 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 350 (2012) → 355 (2023): 1.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 450 (1990) → 355 (2023): -21.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 261, of which 16.1 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.6 km SFood shop — 2.7 km SPharmacy — 3.1 km SBakery — 7.7 km NW 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 (Prissac): 7.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Benoît-du-Sault): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Benoît-du-Sault): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Benoît-du-Sault): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Roussines): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.6

Days at or below 0 °C 53.1

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHAILLAC weather station, 8.3 km away at 180 m; the village itself is at 229 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ARGENTON, 14.5 km away at 178 m, over 14 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 51 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHAILLAC, 8.3 km away at 180 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 — 36174/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36174/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36174/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36174/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36168
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36182
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36174
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
Roumégoux	15	190 km S	336	25.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bosjean	71	303 km E	321	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 81 %
Anjouin	36	86 km N	313	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Cour-Marigny	45	183 km NE	379	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Just-et-Vacquières	30	343 km SE	325	23.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 41 % · humidity 71 %
Subligny	18	147 km NE	337	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Anjouin	36	86 km N	313	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Subligny	18	147 km NE	337	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
La Cour-Marigny	45	183 km NE	379	24.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Roumégoux	15	190 km S	336	25.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bosjean	71	303 km E	321	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Just-et-Vacquières	30	343 km SE	325	23.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 41 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Roussines'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
Le Montellier	01	290 km E	336	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sérénac	81	288 km S	504	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Rebourguil	12	307 km S	296	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Meillard	03	142 km E	303	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Nabirat	24	191 km S	341	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-en-Brionnais	71	221 km E	324	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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