Faye-la-Vineuse

Indre-et-Loire · CC Touraine Val de Vienne · INSEE 37105

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

Few services 27.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Faye-la-Vineuse (INSEE 37105) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Touraine Val de Vienne. Population 272 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 27.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 74 % of the 17,579 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.29	10	2.93
Housing mix	0.43	5	2.17

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (GEORGETTE LABOMBE). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (FAYE LA VINEUSE RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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)	1	GEORGETTE LABOMBE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 4 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	FAYE LA VINEUSE 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 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: 597 2023: 272 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 286 (2012) → 272 (2023): -4.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 343 (1990) → 272 (2023): -20.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 219, of which 28.3 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop Bakery — 4.5 km SEPrimary school — 6.5 km NGP — 6.5 km NPharmacy — 6.5 km N 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 (Saint-Christophe): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Faye-la-Vineuse): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Richelieu): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Richelieu): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Richelieu): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.6

Days at or below 0 °C 38.1

Muggy days a summer 2.9

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COURCOUE weather station, 7.3 km away at 115 m; the village itself is at 116 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LIGRE, 18.1 km away at 67 m, over 27 summers. ^[11]

An average of 691 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at COURCOUE, 7.3 km away at 115 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37105/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37105/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37105/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37105/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86217
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37105
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37196
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
Artins	41	93 km N	266	25.2	Few services	no figures
Campouriez	12	307 km SE	322	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Paizay-Naudouin-Embourie	16	106 km S	337	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Robert	19	203 km S	294	42.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Fleury-la-Forêt	27	288 km N	292	22	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Gigny	39	394 km E	264	17.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 36 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Artins	41	93 km N	266	25.2	Few services	no figures
Paizay-Naudouin-Embourie	16	106 km S	337	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Robert	19	203 km S	294	42.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Fleury-la-Forêt	27	288 km N	292	22	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Campouriez	12	307 km SE	322	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Gigny	39	394 km E	264	17.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 36 % · 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 Faye-la-Vineuse'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
Ferrière-Larçon	37	42 km E	242	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chives	17	117 km S	317	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Leuglay	21	348 km E	283	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Andryes	89	246 km E	450	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Jouac	87	97 km SE	197	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Badefols-d'Ans	24	203 km S	421	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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