Draché

Identity

Draché (INSEE 37098) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Loches Sud Touraine. Population 698 (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/37098-drache

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 16,393 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.

Services

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (DELICES ET GOURMANDISES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (DRACHE AP). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (ZONE MULTIACTIVITES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 719 (2012) → 698 (2023): -2.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 592 (1990) → 698 (2023): 17.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 342, of which 4.1 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Draché): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Marcé-sur-Esves): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Celle-Saint-Avant): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Nouâtre): 5.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

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

Climate

An average of 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-EPAIN weather station, 11.5 km away at 112 m; the village itself is at 62 m. ^[12]

The village sits 50 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST-EPAIN, 11.5 km away at 112 m, over 27 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 50 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at STE-CATHERINE, 9.7 km away at 116 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37098/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37098/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37098/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37098/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 37098
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 37145
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 37045
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 37174
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024