Vou

Indre-et-Loire · CC Loches Sud Touraine · INSEE 37280

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

Few services 30.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vou (INSEE 37280) is in Indre-et-Loire (37), part of CC Loches Sud Touraine. Population 247 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/37280-vou

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 17,181 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.8	10	8
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

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

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE PATRICIA · CO-PAIN). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	2	LE FOURNIL DE PATRICIA · CO-PAIN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE VOU	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 [3,4]
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: 342 2023: 247 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 234 (2012) → 247 (2023): 5.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 190 (1990) → 247 (2023): 30 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 149, of which 11.4 % second homes and 14.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 2.7 km EGP — 5.5 km SWPharmacy — 5.5 km SWFood shop — 5.9 km SW 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 (Vou): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ligueil): 5.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ligueil): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ligueil): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mouzay): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.6

Days at or below 0 °C 39.5

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the FERRIERE-LARCON weather station, 10.9 km away at 116 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at FERRIERE-LARCON, 10.9 km away at 116 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 727 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ESVES-LE-MOUT., 5.4 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 — 37280/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37280/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37280/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 37280/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37280
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37130
INSEE BPE 2025 — 37162
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
Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé	42	268 km SE	268	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 18 % · humidity 86 %
Nizerolles	03	239 km SE	282	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Briffons	63	207 km SE	267	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Lentiol	38	383 km SE	242	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Arnaud-Guilhem	31	438 km S	230	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche	24	218 km S	335	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Briffons	63	207 km SE	267	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche	24	218 km S	335	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Nizerolles	03	239 km SE	282	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé	42	268 km SE	268	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 18 % · humidity 86 %
Lentiol	38	383 km SE	242	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Arnaud-Guilhem	31	438 km S	230	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · 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 Vou'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
Buxières-d'Aillac	36	84 km SE	238	11.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Georges-les-Landes	87	90 km SE	232	9.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Mayme-de-Péreyrol	24	231 km S	286	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Noyers-Auzécourt	55	366 km NE	273	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bourg	46	276 km S	298	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Christophe	86	41 km SW	279	17.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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