Boursay

Loir-et-Cher · CC des Collines du Perche · INSEE 41024

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

No daily shops 14.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Boursay (INSEE 41024) is in Loir-et-Cher (41), part of CC des Collines du Perche. Population 179 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 14.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 15,296 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.44	10	4.42
Housing mix	0.28	5	1.39

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (CAFE GALERIE BOURSAY). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE GALERIE BOURSAY	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 378 2023: 179 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 197 (2012) → 179 (2023): -9.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 190 (1990) → 179 (2023): -5.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 166, of which 36.1 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.1 km SWFood shop — 5.5 km SGP — 6.6 km SWPharmacy — 7.1 km SWBakery — 7.9 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 (Couëtron-au-Perche): 7.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Marc-du-Cor): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mondoubleau): 6.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Mondoubleau): 7.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Choue): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.9

Days at or below 0 °C 50.5

Muggy days a summer 1

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the DROUE - MORACHE weather station, 4.7 km away at 206 m; the village itself is at 171 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CHOUE, 7 km away at 163 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at DROUE - MORACHE, 4.7 km away at 206 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41024/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41024/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41024/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41024/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41248
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41224
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41143
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41053
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-Léger-de-Peyre	48	421 km SE	184	15.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Montmort	71	275 km SE	185	16.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Vallecalle	2B	889 km SE	169	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Pancheraccia	2B	921 km SE	198	15.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 21 %
Sauret-Besserve	63	265 km SE	163	15.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Fargeol	03	244 km SE	187	13.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 92 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Fargeol	03	244 km SE	187	13.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 92 %
Sauret-Besserve	63	265 km SE	163	15.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Montmort	71	275 km SE	185	16.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-de-Peyre	48	421 km SE	184	15.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Vallecalle	2B	889 km SE	169	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Pancheraccia	2B	921 km SE	198	15.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Boursay'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
Le Favril	27	133 km N	185	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Fontenelle	41	6.3 km NE	204	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bazelat	23	190 km S	221	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Chapelle-Guillaume	28	12 km NW	181	6.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Champagnac-la-Noaille	19	312 km S	237	15.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Miermaigne	28	25 km N	164	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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