Bossée

Indre-et-Loire · CC Loches Sud Touraine · INSEE 37029

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

Partly served 40.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bossée (INSEE 37029) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Loches Sud Touraine. Population 327 (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/37029-bossee

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 17,995 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.56	10	5.62
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.32

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL BOSSEEN). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	1	LE FOURNIL BOSSEEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 [3,4]
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: 371 2023: 327 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 336 (2012) → 327 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 308 (1990) → 327 (2023): 6.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 192, of which 6.8 % second homes and 11.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 5.4 km NEPharmacy — 5.4 km NEGP — 5.7 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 (Bossée): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Manthelan): 5.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Manthelan): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Manthelan): 5.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bossée): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.1

Days at or below 0 °C 41.4

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE LOUROUX weather station, 5.6 km away at 123 m; the village itself is at 115 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST-EPAIN, 10.7 km away at 112 m, over 27 summers. ^[10]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at STE-CATHERINE, 3.2 km away at 116 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 — 37029/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37029/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37029/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37029/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37029
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37143
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
Sarzay	36	106 km SE	301	33.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Les Monts-Verts	48	315 km SE	313	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 0 %
Miramont-Sensacq	40	400 km S	342	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Locquignol	59	407 km NE	301	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Fougerolles	36	106 km SE	349	28.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Moncayolle-Larrory-Mendibieu	64	445 km S	284	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sarzay	36	106 km SE	301	33.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Fougerolles	36	106 km SE	349	28.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Les Monts-Verts	48	315 km SE	313	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 0 %
Miramont-Sensacq	40	400 km S	342	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Locquignol	59	407 km NE	301	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Moncayolle-Larrory-Mendibieu	64	445 km S	284	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · 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 Bossée'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-Genest	03	171 km SE	386	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	92 km S	334	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Basses	86	47 km W	344	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Autry-Issards	03	194 km E	313	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Vézières	86	48 km W	340	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Mazerolles	16	152 km S	314	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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