Saint-Aigny

Indre · CC Brenne - Val de Creuse · INSEE 36178

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

No daily shops 18.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Aigny (INSEE 36178) is in Indre (36), part of CC Brenne - Val de Creuse. Population 276 (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/36178-saint-aigny

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 17,623 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.63	10	6.31
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.44

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA SOURCE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	1	LA SOURCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 254 peak 2012: 298 2023: 276 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 298 (2012) → 276 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 244 (1990) → 276 (2023): 13.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 186, of which 15.6 % second homes and 14.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.3 km NFood shop — 2.9 km EPharmacy — 3.2 km SEPrimary school — 3.3 km EGP — 3.4 km E 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): 1.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Blanc): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Blanc): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Blanc): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Le Blanc): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

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. ^[10]

Measured at the LE BLANC weather station, 3.7 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 94 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at BLANC-ARCI, 5.3 km away at 108 m, over 17 summers. ^[10]

An average of 792 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE BLANC, 3.7 km away at 117 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 — 36178/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36178/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36178/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36178/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36165
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
Saint-Vincent-Lespinasse	82	281 km S	284	20.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Coussay	86	66 km W	266	17.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Moncy	61	274 km NW	261	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Sarcé	72	134 km NW	264	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sauveterre	32	355 km S	278	20.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Colombier	42	312 km SE	294	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Coussay	86	66 km W	266	17.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Sarcé	72	134 km NW	264	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Moncy	61	274 km NW	261	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vincent-Lespinasse	82	281 km S	284	20.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Colombier	42	312 km SE	294	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Sauveterre	32	355 km S	278	20.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Saint-Aigny'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
Issepts	46	230 km S	266	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Murs-et-Gélignieux	01	374 km E	239	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Bio	46	215 km S	350	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Rousset-les-Vignes	26	400 km SE	271	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Virac	81	300 km S	252	27	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Souel	81	300 km S	175	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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