Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie

Indre · CC de la Châtre et Sainte-Sévère · INSEE 36186

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

Few services 32.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie (INSEE 36186) is in Indre (36), part of CC de la Châtre et Sainte-Sévère. Population 232 (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/36186-saint-christophe-en-boucherie

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 16,846 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.34	10	3.38
Housing mix	0.49	5	2.47

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (RENE-LAURENT CAMBRAY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL LE RELAIS). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	RENE-LAURENT CAMBRAY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL LE RELAIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 412 2023: 232 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 245 (2012) → 232 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 277 (1990) → 232 (2023): -16.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 194, of which 25.3 % second homes and 12.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 13.0 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 (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Châtelet): 13 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.6

Days at or below 0 °C 48

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-CHRISTOPHE weather station, 0.3 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 270 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MONTGIVRAY, 13.5 km away at 204 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 66 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 854 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-CHRISTOPHE, 0.3 km away at 265 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

30 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 69,500 € — 713 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Indre is 880 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36186/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36186/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36186/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36186/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18059
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Lauresses	46	213 km S	239	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 99 %
Marques	76	347 km N	236	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Issor	64	454 km SW	256	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %
La Tuilière	42	153 km SE	273	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Bois-Anzeray	27	272 km NW	193	25	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Langé	36	64 km NW	253	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Langé	36	64 km NW	253	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Tuilière	42	153 km SE	273	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Lauresses	46	213 km S	239	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 99 %
Bois-Anzeray	27	272 km NW	193	25	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Marques	76	347 km N	236	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Issor	64	454 km SW	256	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %

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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-Christophe-en-Boucherie'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
Langé	36	64 km NW	253	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Paulmy	37	103 km W	238	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-André-le-Désert	71	186 km E	243	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Mazirat	03	60 km SE	273	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Simeyrols	24	206 km S	256	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vanzay	79	162 km W	234	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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