Larçay

Indre-et-Loire · CC Touraine-Est Vallées · INSEE 37124

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

Few services 38.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Larçay (INSEE 37124) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Touraine-Est Vallées. Population 2,657 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/37124-larcay

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 7,880 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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) (S.A.R.L. AUX DOUCEURS DE LARCAY). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'ALIBI). ^[4]

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

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SIMON GOELLER, MÉDECIN · ELISE TATIN KOENIG, MÉDECIN · ÉLODIE PARÉ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LARCAY). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (JUSPILLARD COMPLEXE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LE STUDIO M). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	S.A.R.L. AUX DOUCEURS DE LARCAY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'ALIBI	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MOULIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	SIMON GOELLER, MÉDECIN · ELISE TATIN KOENIG, MÉDECIN · ÉLODIE PARÉ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LARCAY	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	JUSPILLARD COMPLEXE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	LE STUDIO M	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 759 2023: 2,657 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,417 (2012) → 2,657 (2023): 9.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,751 (1990) → 2,657 (2023): 51.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,196, of which 2.1 % second homes and 3.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 0.5 km SGP — 0.5 km SPrimary school — 1.4 km SWFood shop — 2.3 km EPharmacy — 2.4 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 (Larçay): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montlouis-sur-Loire): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Larçay): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Véretz): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Larçay): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.5

Days at or below 0 °C 34.1

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 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the JOUE-LES-TOURS weather station, 9.2 km away at 93 m; the village itself is at 56 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at JOUE-LES-TOURS, 9.2 km away at 93 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

An average of 772 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-AVERTIN, 4.3 km away at 90 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 — 37124/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37124/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37124/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37124/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37124
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37156
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37267
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
Guérard	77	229 km NE	2,688	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ham-sous-Varsberg	57	478 km NE	2,888	49.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Franois	25	388 km E	2,257	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Gilly-sur-Isère	73	467 km E	3,149	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 18 % · humidity 93 %
Les Roches-de-Condrieu	38	373 km SE	2,055	42	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Orliénas	69	356 km SE	2,675	52.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Guérard	77	229 km NE	2,688	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Orliénas	69	356 km SE	2,675	52.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Les Roches-de-Condrieu	38	373 km SE	2,055	42	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Franois	25	388 km E	2,257	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Gilly-sur-Isère	73	467 km E	3,149	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 18 % · humidity 93 %
Ham-sous-Varsberg	57	478 km NE	2,888	49.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Larçay'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
Guérard	77	229 km NE	2,688	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Verlinghem	59	402 km NE	2,682	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Léry	27	216 km N	1,975	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Houppeville	76	239 km N	2,814	44.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Grande-Paroisse	77	195 km NE	2,893	44	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vrain	91	175 km NE	3,089	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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