Chambon

Indre-et-Loire · CC Loches Sud Touraine · INSEE 37048

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

No daily shops 18.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chambon (INSEE 37048) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Loches Sud Touraine. Population 311 (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/37048-chambon

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.58	10	5.8
Housing mix	0.48	5	2.39

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 1 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 (LE VIEUX FOURNIL). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

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

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. ^[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	LE VIEUX FOURNIL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 381 2023: 311 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 318 (2012) → 311 (2023): -2.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 288 (1990) → 311 (2023): 8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 241, of which 26.1 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km WBakery — 3.8 km NWFood shop — 5.5 km SPharmacy — 6.1 km SGP — 6.3 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 (Barrou): 3.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Roche-Posay): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Roche-Posay): 6.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (La Roche-Posay): 6.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lésigny): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.6

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the FERRIERE-LARCON weather station, 16.9 km away at 116 m; the village itself is at 70 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at FERRIERE-LARCON, 16.9 km away at 116 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 765 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BOUSSAY, 4.4 km away at 130 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 — 37048/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37048/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37048/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37048/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37019
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86207
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86129
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
La Bâtie-Montsaléon	05	467 km SE	304	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Pierrerue	34	416 km SE	289	19.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Le Castellet	04	517 km SE	296	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Millemont	78	230 km N	272	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis	30	395 km SE	296	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
La Madeleine-Bouvet	61	181 km N	400	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 66 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Madeleine-Bouvet	61	181 km N	400	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 66 %
Millemont	78	230 km N	272	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis	30	395 km SE	296	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Pierrerue	34	416 km SE	289	19.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
La Bâtie-Montsaléon	05	467 km SE	304	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Le Castellet	04	517 km SE	296	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Chambon'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
Mauvières	36	37 km SE	306	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Rigny-le-Ferron	10	261 km NE	323	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montigny-le-Guesdier	77	251 km NE	295	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lestiou	41	115 km NE	291	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sauveur-lès-Bray	77	253 km NE	350	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Vault-de-Lugny	89	241 km E	271	14.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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