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Neuville-sur-Brenne

Indre-et-Loire · CC du Castelrenaudais · INSEE 37169

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

Few services 24.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 20 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Neuville-sur-Brenne (INSEE 37169) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC du Castelrenaudais. Population 872 (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/37169-neuville-sur-brenne

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 20 % of the 15,175 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.8954.43

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). [3]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station1STATION SERVICEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 225 peak 2017: 899 2023: 872 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 875 (2012) → 872 (2023): -0.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 516 (1990) → 872 (2023): 69 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 388, of which 5.7 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.4 km S (Château-Renault)Bakery — 2.8 km S (Château-Renault)GP — 3.0 km S (Château-Renault)Pharmacy — 3.2 km S (Château-Renault)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.4 km SBakery — 2.8 km SGP — 3.0 km SPharmacy — 3.2 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 (Château-Renault): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Château-Renault): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Château-Renault): 3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Château-Renault): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Neuville-sur-Brenne): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the SAUNAY weather station, 3.6 km away at 109 m; the village itself is at 100 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at SAUNAY, 3.6 km away at 109 m, over 23 summers. [10]

An average of 707 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAU-RENAULT, 2.7 km away at 98 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

52 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 176,500 € — 1,330 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Indre-et-Loire is 1,846 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37169/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37169/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37169/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37169/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 37063
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 37169
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Draillant74446 km E87224.4Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Mézières-lez-Cléry4571 km E88324.5Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Varzay17247 km SW84522.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Escamps89192 km E83621.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Vieux87209 km S86521.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Amfreville-sur-Iton27171 km N88723Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mézières-lez-Cléry4571 km E88324.5Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Amfreville-sur-Iton27171 km N88723Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Escamps89192 km E83621.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Vieux87209 km S86521.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Varzay17247 km SW84522.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Draillant74446 km E87224.4Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Neuville-sur-Brenne'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Escamps89192 km E83621.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Amfreville-sur-Iton27171 km N88723Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne27174 km N92718.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Val-Doré27147 km N89023.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Jallans2861 km NE78618.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
La Baronnie27151 km N77122.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %