Sainte-Lizaigne

Indre · CC du Pays d'Issoudun · INSEE 36199

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

No daily shops 19.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Lizaigne (INSEE 36199) is in Indre (36), part of CC du Pays d'Issoudun. Population 1,101 (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/36199-sainte-lizaigne

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 13,749 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.49	10	4.93
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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 1 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JULIE PENNERET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, 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	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 PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES TOURNESOLS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JULIE PENNERET, 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	1	SAINTE LIZAIGNE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 [3,4]
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: 821 peak 2012: 1,221 2023: 1,101 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,221 (2012) → 1,101 (2023): -9.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,109 (1990) → 1,101 (2023): -0.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 585, of which 3.9 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Food shop — 5.0 km SWBakery — 6.6 km SPharmacy — 6.8 km S 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 (Issoudun): 6.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Bordes): 5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sainte-Lizaigne): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Issoudun): 6.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sainte-Lizaigne): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.3

Days at or below 0 °C 45.6

Muggy days a summer 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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the REUILLY weather station, 7.7 km away at 155 m; the village itself is at 126 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at REUILLY, 7.7 km away at 155 m, over 16 summers. ^[11]

An average of 667 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at REUILLY, 7.7 km away at 155 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 — 36199/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36199/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36199/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36199/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36088
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36021
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36199
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
Therdonne	60	268 km N	1,225	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Diges	89	131 km NE	1,052	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Terminiers	28	122 km N	881	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt	37	131 km W	842	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Angerville-la-Martel	76	326 km N	1,079	24	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 62 %
Aubiac	47	338 km S	1,174	22	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Terminiers	28	122 km N	881	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt	37	131 km W	842	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Diges	89	131 km NE	1,052	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Therdonne	60	268 km N	1,225	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Angerville-la-Martel	76	326 km N	1,079	24	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 62 %
Aubiac	47	338 km S	1,174	22	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 72 % · 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 Sainte-Lizaigne'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
Diges	89	131 km NE	1,052	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Terminiers	28	122 km N	881	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt	37	131 km W	842	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Fossé	41	89 km NW	1,254	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Orphin	78	176 km N	875	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Coutouvre	42	197 km SE	1,085	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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