Benais

Indre-et-Loire · CC Touraine Ouest Val de Loire · INSEE 37024

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

Partly served 41/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Benais (INSEE 37024) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Touraine Ouest Val de Loire. Population 945 (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/37024-benais

Vitality score

Vitality score 41/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 14,696 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.6	10	5.96
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.15

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BOULANGE DE CATHY). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (OSSANT BERNICHE). ^[3]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (BENAIS RP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA BOULANGE DE CATHY	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	OSSANT BERNICHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BENAIS RP	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
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: 836 peak 2012: 963 2023: 945 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 963 (2012) → 945 (2023): -1.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 862 (1990) → 945 (2023): 9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 516, of which 8.5 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.5 km NWBakery — 1.8 km SEPharmacy — 2.0 km SEGP — 2.1 km SE 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 (Restigné): 1.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Benais): 1.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Restigné): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Restigné): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Benais): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.7

Days at or below 0 °C 39.2

Muggy days a summer 4.6

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the INGRANDES -BLTO weather station, 4.2 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 55 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at INGRANDES -BLTO, 4.2 km away at 56 m, over 14 summers. ^[10]

An average of 666 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BOURGUEIL, 4.4 km away at 31 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 — 37024/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37024/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37024/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37024/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37193
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37024
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
Guyans-Vennes	25	480 km E	838	49.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Romans-lès-Melle	79	125 km S	729	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Port-Mort	27	226 km NE	889	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Lépanges-sur-Vologne	88	492 km E	844	41.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Digny	28	155 km NE	1,003	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
Bourret	82	380 km S	971	40.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Romans-lès-Melle	79	125 km S	729	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Digny	28	155 km NE	1,003	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
Port-Mort	27	226 km NE	889	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Bourret	82	380 km S	971	40.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Guyans-Vennes	25	480 km E	838	49.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Lépanges-sur-Vologne	88	492 km E	844	41.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Benais'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
Saint-Romans-lès-Melle	79	125 km S	729	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Ouen-les-Vignes	37	62 km E	963	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Étagnac	16	162 km S	982	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Genis-d'Hiersac	16	173 km S	942	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rétaud	17	194 km S	1,058	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chassenon	16	166 km S	836	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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