Ruffec

Indre · CC Brenne - Val de Creuse · INSEE 36176

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

Few services 36.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ruffec (INSEE 36176) is in Indre (36), part of CC Brenne - Val de Creuse. Population 562 (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/36176-ruffec

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 17,427 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.45	10	4.46
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 0 of 3

Lodging 2 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) (LE FOURNIL DES HIRONDELLES). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES BRENNE - VAL DE CREUSE). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT CHEZ P'TIT JEAN). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DES HIRONDELLES	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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
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	RUFFEC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES BRENNE - VAL DE CREUSE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL RESTAURANT CHEZ P'TIT JEAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 635 2023: 562 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 619 (2012) → 562 (2023): -9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 594 (1990) → 562 (2023): -5.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 333, of which 19.2 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.9 km NWFood shop — 7.1 km WGP — 7.9 km WPharmacy — 8.2 km W 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 (Ruffec): 0.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Blanc): 7.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Blanc): 7.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Blanc): 8.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.3

Days at or below 0 °C 49

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BLANC-ARCI weather station, 6.3 km away at 108 m; the village itself is at 83 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BLANC-ARCI, 6.3 km away at 108 m, over 17 summers. ^[10]

An average of 673 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BLANC-ARCI, 6.3 km away at 108 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 — 36176/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36176/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36176/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36176/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36176
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
Les Ternes	15	231 km SE	567	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Ayrens	15	204 km SE	614	36.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Port-Lesney	39	357 km E	532	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Corveissiat	01	333 km E	601	42.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Everly	77	257 km NE	566	35	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Faugères	34	376 km SE	548	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ayrens	15	204 km SE	614	36.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Les Ternes	15	231 km SE	567	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Everly	77	257 km NE	566	35	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Corveissiat	01	333 km E	601	42.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Port-Lesney	39	357 km E	532	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Faugères	34	376 km SE	548	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Ruffec'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
Faux-en-Périgord	24	208 km S	672	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Gy-en-Sologne	41	86 km N	475	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Champlost	89	244 km NE	767	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Chapelle-Viviers	86	38 km SW	551	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Melleran	79	106 km SW	480	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Chargey-lès-Gray	70	347 km E	667	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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