Val-Fouzon

Indre · CC Chabris - Pays de Bazelle · INSEE 36229

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

Partly served 41.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Val-Fouzon (INSEE 36229) is in Indre (36), part of CC Chabris - Pays de Bazelle. Population 968 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 2 former communes: Parpeçay (36151), Sainte-Cécile (36183). ^[3]

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/36229-val-fouzon

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 14,497 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.54	10	5.39
Housing mix	0.6	5	3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (TELEGUEI). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (LES BROCHES DU BERRY · D'HIER ET D'AUJOURD'HUI). ^[4,5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VARENNES SUR FOUZON AP). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE LOUNAKA). ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	TELEGUEI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	2	LES BROCHES DU BERRY · D'HIER ET D'AUJOURD'HUI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	VARENNES SUR FOUZON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	COIFFURE LOUNAKA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,215 2023: 968 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,042 (2012) → 968 (2023): -7.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 932 (1990) → 968 (2023): 3.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 699, of which 20 % second homes and 10 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 5.7 km NEPharmacy — 5.8 km NE 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 (Val-Fouzon): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Val-Fouzon): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chabris): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Chabris): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Val-Fouzon): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.1

Days at or below 0 °C 51

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the POULAINES weather station, 3.5 km away at 109 m; the village itself is at 86 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LYE, 8.2 km away at 130 m, over 27 summers. ^[11]

An average of 694 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at POULAINES, 3.5 km away at 109 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

101 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 74,000 € — 762 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Indre is 880 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

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 — 36229/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36229/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36229/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 36229/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36229
INSEE BPE 2025 — 36034
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
Le Ménil	88	396 km E	970	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 45 % · humidity 86 %
Buzy	64	482 km S	1,006	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Étagnac	16	160 km SW	982	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vincent-du-Lorouër	72	108 km NW	814	44.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 82 %
Bézenet	03	136 km SE	910	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pont-Chrétien-Chabenet	36	66 km S	917	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Pont-Chrétien-Chabenet	36	66 km S	917	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vincent-du-Lorouër	72	108 km NW	814	44.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 82 %
Bézenet	03	136 km SE	910	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Étagnac	16	160 km SW	982	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Le Ménil	88	396 km E	970	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 45 % · humidity 86 %
Buzy	64	482 km S	1,006	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · 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 Val-Fouzon'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
Auzits	12	306 km S	824	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sers	16	205 km SW	896	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Proissans	24	255 km S	1,102	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lhommaizé	86	116 km SW	898	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Livry	58	122 km SE	643	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martial-de-Nabirat	24	276 km S	586	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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