Rivière

Indre-et-Loire · CC Chinon, Vienne et Loire · INSEE 37201

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

Few services 30.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rivière (INSEE 37201) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Chinon, Vienne et Loire. Population 699 (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 30.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 16,401 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.72	10	7.2
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DE RIVIÈRE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LES MOUSSAILLONS	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DE RIVIÈRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
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: 321 peak 2012: 746 2023: 699 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 746 (2012) → 699 (2023): -6.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 573 (1990) → 699 (2023): 22 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 391, of which 5.9 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.7 km WBakery — 3.1 km WGP — 3.1 km NWPharmacy — 3.1 km W 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 (Chinon): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chinon): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chinon): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Chinon): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Rivière): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.3

Days at or below 0 °C 41

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LIGRE weather station, 3.7 km away at 67 m; the village itself is at 37 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LIGRE, 3.7 km away at 67 m, over 27 summers. ^[10]

An average of 655 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LIGRE, 3.7 km away at 67 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 — 37201/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37201/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37201/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37201/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37072
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37201
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
Lescheroux	01	380 km E	726	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Barrès	07	440 km SE	824	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Combas	30	472 km SE	780	33.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Belleau	54	477 km NE	766	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Flaujagues	33	259 km S	594	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 95 %
Bort-l'Étang	63	285 km SE	727	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Flaujagues	33	259 km S	594	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 95 %
Bort-l'Étang	63	285 km SE	727	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Lescheroux	01	380 km E	726	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Barrès	07	440 km SE	824	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Combas	30	472 km SE	780	33.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Belleau	54	477 km NE	766	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 49 % · 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 Rivière'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
Ordizan	65	449 km S	513	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Fontivillié	79	108 km S	754	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Forêt-le-Roi	91	198 km NE	492	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Humes-Jorquenay	52	386 km E	594	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Frozes	86	55 km S	621	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Chavigny-Bailleul	27	204 km N	566	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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