Semblançay

Indre-et-Loire · CC de Gâtine-Racan · INSEE 37245

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

Partly served 49.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Semblançay (INSEE 37245) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC de Gâtine-Racan. Population 2,200 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/37245-semblancay

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Pharmacy).

Better served than 69 % of the 8,987 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.7	10	7.04
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.98	10	9.78
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 1 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) (SIMBERT). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE LAURENT. S). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'OREE DES BOIS · LPES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA MERE HAMARD). ^[3,4]

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

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-MICHEL MATHIEU, MÉDECIN · SYLVIE GONDEL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

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

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

3 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LA MERE HAMARD). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SIMBERT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE LAURENT. S	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	L'OREE DES BOIS · LPES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	LA MERE HAMARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLQIUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	JEAN-MICHEL MATHIEU, MÉDECIN · SYLVIE GONDEL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	3		INSEE SIRENE 3 / 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	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3		INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LA MERE HAMARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 867 2023: 2,200 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,112 (2012) → 2,200 (2023): 4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,489 (1990) → 2,200 (2023): 47.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 901, of which 1.8 % second homes and 5.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.4 km E 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 (Semblançay): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Semblançay): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Semblançay): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Rouziers-de-Touraine): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Semblançay): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.5

Days at or below 0 °C 45.3

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FONDETTES weather station, 8.4 km away at 93 m; the village itself is at 106 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FONDETTES, 8.4 km away at 93 m, over 27 summers. ^[10]

An average of 713 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FONDETTES, 8.4 km away at 93 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Pharmacy

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37245/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37245/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37245/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37245/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37245
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37204
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
Mézeray	72	58 km NW	1,841	41.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Foëcy	18	124 km E	2,046	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Châteauneuf-le-Rouge	13	591 km SE	2,376	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Vignoux-sur-Barangeon	18	124 km E	2,026	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lencloître	86	79 km S	2,483	49.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Valloire-sur-Cisse	41	50 km E	2,385	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Valloire-sur-Cisse	41	50 km E	2,385	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Mézeray	72	58 km NW	1,841	41.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Lencloître	86	79 km S	2,483	49.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Foëcy	18	124 km E	2,046	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vignoux-sur-Barangeon	18	124 km E	2,026	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Châteauneuf-le-Rouge	13	591 km SE	2,376	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · 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 Semblançay'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
Foëcy	18	124 km E	2,046	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vignoux-sur-Barangeon	18	124 km E	2,026	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lencloître	86	79 km S	2,483	49.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Valloire-sur-Cisse	41	50 km E	2,385	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chevannes	89	220 km E	2,137	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Wingersheim les Quatre Bans	67	541 km E	2,342	53.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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