Lorges

Loir-et-Cher · CC Beauce Val de Loire · INSEE 41119

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

Few services 22/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lorges (INSEE 41119) is in Loir-et-Cher (41), part of CC Beauce Val de Loire. Population 359 (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 22/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 18,035 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.82	10	8.15
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.19

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	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	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: 271 peak 2012: 370 2023: 359 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 370 (2012) → 359 (2023): -3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 273 (1990) → 359 (2023): 31.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 173, of which 8.1 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.6 km SEGP — 3.6 km SEBakery — 3.7 km SEPharmacy — 13.1 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 (Josnes): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Josnes): 3.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Josnes): 3.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Baule): 13.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lorges): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.4

Days at or below 0 °C 45.2

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the OUZOUER-ARVALIS weather station, 9 km away at 129 m; the village itself is at 130 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at OUZOUER-ARVALIS, 9 km away at 129 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

An average of 611 mm of rain a year, spread over 103 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at OUZOUER-ARVALIS, 9 km away at 129 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 — 41119/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41119/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41119/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41119/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41105
INSEE BPE 2025 — 45024
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41119
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
Glaignes	60	189 km NE	356	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Milly-Lamartine	71	293 km SE	353	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Tersanne	26	395 km SE	353	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Fayssac	81	432 km S	354	19.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Georges-le-Fléchard	53	151 km W	373	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mignerette	45	86 km E	350	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mignerette	45	86 km E	350	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges-le-Fléchard	53	151 km W	373	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Glaignes	60	189 km NE	356	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Milly-Lamartine	71	293 km SE	353	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Tersanne	26	395 km SE	353	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Fayssac	81	432 km S	354	19.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 97 % · 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 Lorges'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
Glaignes	60	189 km NE	356	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges-le-Fléchard	53	151 km W	373	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Vernie	72	117 km W	346	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Roberval	60	186 km NE	350	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Dampleux	02	200 km NE	370	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Balloy	77	138 km NE	359	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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