Saint-Hilaire-sur-Benaize

Indre · CC Marche Occitane - Val d'Anglin · INSEE 36197

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

No daily shops 17.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Hilaire-sur-Benaize (INSEE 36197) is in Indre (36), part of CC Marche Occitane - Val d'Anglin. Population 311 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,918 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	0.56	10	5.61
Housing mix	0.56	5	2.8

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 (AU FIL DE LA BENAIZE). ^[3,4]

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

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	AU FIL DE LA BENAIZE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 463 2023: 311 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 356 (2012) → 311 (2023): -12.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 293 (1990) → 311 (2023): 6.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 268, of which 22 % second homes and 20.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 5.9 km NWGP — 6.0 km EBakery — 6.5 km EFood shop — 6.6 km EPharmacy — 6.6 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 (Bélâbre): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bélâbre): 6.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bélâbre): 6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bélâbre): 6.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Concremiers): 5.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

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, 7.1 km away at 108 m; the village itself is at 92 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at BLANC-ARCI, 7.1 km away at 108 m, over 17 summers. ^[10]

An average of 824 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BELABRE, 6.7 km away at 112 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 — 36197/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36197/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36197/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36197/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36058
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
Vaylats	46	251 km S	327	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Victor-d'Épine	27	297 km N	335	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Varenguebec	50	363 km NW	321	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 44 % · winter 53 %
Gouttières	63	142 km E	298	13.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Frayssinet	46	214 km S	309	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Sortosville-en-Beaumont	50	380 km NW	297	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gouttières	63	142 km E	298	13.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Frayssinet	46	214 km S	309	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Vaylats	46	251 km S	327	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Victor-d'Épine	27	297 km N	335	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Varenguebec	50	363 km NW	321	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 44 % · winter 53 %
Sortosville-en-Beaumont	50	380 km NW	297	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %

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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-Hilaire-sur-Benaize'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
Braslou	37	71 km NW	319	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Édon	16	132 km SW	272	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin-de-Cadelech	24	213 km S	346	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Bio	46	206 km S	350	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Montredon	46	233 km S	300	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Oyé	71	240 km E	271	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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