Fontaines-en-Sologne

Loir-et-Cher · CC du Grand Chambord · INSEE 41086

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

Few services 29.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fontaines-en-Sologne (INSEE 41086) is in Loir-et-Cher (41), part of CC du Grand Chambord. Population 661 (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/41086-fontaines-en-sologne

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 16,656 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.77	10	7.71
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.87

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PASCAL BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FONTAINES-EN-SOLOGNE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	PASCAL BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 FONTAINES-EN-SOLOGNE	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 781 2023: 661 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 642 (2012) → 661 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 520 (1990) → 661 (2023): 27.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 353, of which 11.3 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 4.1 km NPharmacy — 4.1 km NFood shop — 4.2 km N 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 (Fontaines-en-Sologne): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bracieux): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bracieux): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bracieux): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Fontaines-en-Sologne): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.2

Days at or below 0 °C 55.9

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHEVERNY weather station, 8.6 km away at 99 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 MONTRIEUX, 13.8 km away at 96 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

An average of 699 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHEVERNY, 8.6 km away at 99 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 — 41086/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41086/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41086/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41086/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41086
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41025
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
Deaux	30	433 km SE	638	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 8 % · winter 57 % · humidity 79 %
Brangues	38	365 km SE	614	34.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-en-Bière	77	128 km NE	746	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Chantérac	24	273 km S	652	30.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Le Gault-Saint-Denis	28	82 km N	666	31.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Écuillé	49	159 km W	655	32.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Gault-Saint-Denis	28	82 km N	666	31.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-en-Bière	77	128 km NE	746	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Écuillé	49	159 km W	655	32.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Chantérac	24	273 km S	652	30.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Brangues	38	365 km SE	614	34.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Deaux	30	433 km SE	638	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 8 % · winter 57 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Fontaines-en-Sologne'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
Saint-Martin-en-Bière	77	128 km NE	746	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
La Charmée	71	261 km E	681	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Dangolsheim	67	455 km E	681	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Aschbach	67	502 km E	633	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Coulmiers	45	48 km N	576	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Genest-sur-Roselle	87	201 km S	540	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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