La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin

Indre-et-Loire · CC Loches Sud Touraine · INSEE 37057

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

Few services 30.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin (INSEE 37057) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Loches Sud Touraine. Population 688 (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/37057-la-chapelle-blanche-saint-martin

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 16,444 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.83	10	8.28
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 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 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU BLE DU COIN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA CHAPELLE BLANCHE ST MARTIN RP). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (LE PERROQUET BLEU). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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	AU BLE DU COIN	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	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 ELEMENTAIRE	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	LA CHAPELLE BLANCHE ST MARTIN 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	1	LE PERROQUET BLEU	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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: 717 2023: 688 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 683 (2012) → 688 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 518 (1990) → 688 (2023): 32.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 374, of which 7.8 % second homes and 12.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 5.0 km SEFood shop — 5.2 km SPharmacy — 5.3 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 (La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ligueil): 5.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ligueil): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ligueil): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin): 0.2 km to the north (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 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 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, 10.7 km away at 123 m; the village itself is at 123 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FERRIERE-LARCON, 12.6 km away at 116 m, over 30 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, 8.7 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 — 37057/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37057/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37057/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37057/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37057
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37130
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
Brosville	27	226 km N	670	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Les Hauts-de-Chée	55	381 km NE	693	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Valay	70	367 km E	638	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vaast-d'Équiqueville	76	306 km N	748	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Arvillers	80	326 km NE	759	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Greneville-en-Beauce	45	157 km NE	654	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Greneville-en-Beauce	45	157 km NE	654	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 93 %
Brosville	27	226 km N	670	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vaast-d'Équiqueville	76	306 km N	748	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Arvillers	80	326 km NE	759	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Valay	70	367 km E	638	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Les Hauts-de-Chée	55	381 km NE	693	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · 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 La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin'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
Brosville	27	226 km N	670	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Les Hauts-de-Chée	55	381 km NE	693	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Brillon-en-Barrois	55	368 km NE	704	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Condé-sur-Marne	51	333 km NE	747	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
La Taillée	85	153 km SW	550	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chassenon	16	137 km S	836	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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