Meusnes

Loir-et-Cher · CC Val-de-Cher-Controis · INSEE 41139

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

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Meusnes (INSEE 41139) is in Loir-et-Cher (41), part of CC Val-de-Cher-Controis. Population 1,013 (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/41139-meusnes

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 14,244 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.5	10	5.04
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.46

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 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) (S.E.L.N). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE MEUSNOISE). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PRES D'ICI). ^[3,4]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURA LEVEQUE, MÉDECIN · STEPHANE GARREAU, MÉDECIN · MAUREEN TESTU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MEUSNES RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (POINT-LECTURE DE MEUSNES (FERMÉ) MAIRIE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (SARL VAL ET NAT COIFFURE · MES CISEAUX EN BALADE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	S.E.L.N	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE MEUSNOISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PRES D'ICI	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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JULES FERRY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	LAURA LEVEQUE, MÉDECIN · STEPHANE GARREAU, MÉDECIN · MAUREEN TESTU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	MEUSNES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	POINT-LECTURE DE MEUSNES (FERMÉ) MAIRIE	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	2	SARL VAL ET NAT COIFFURE · MES CISEAUX EN BALADE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / 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: 987 peak 2017: 1,097 2023: 1,013 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,073 (2012) → 1,013 (2023): -5.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,009 (1990) → 1,013 (2023): 0.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 715, of which 15.4 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.5 km EPharmacy — 5.1 km NE 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 (Meusnes): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Meusnes): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Meusnes): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Selles-sur-Cher): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Meusnes): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.3

Days at or below 0 °C 59.6

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SELLES-SUR-CHER weather station, 8.3 km away at 83 m; the village itself is at 86 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ROMORANTIN, 16.4 km away at 83 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 711 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SELLES-SUR-CHER, 8.3 km away at 83 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 — 41139/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41139/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41139/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 41139/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41139
INSEE BPE 2025 — 41242
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
Clion	36	40 km SW	1,015	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Cocumont	47	332 km S	1,133	41.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Pellevoisin	36	30 km S	792	45.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Champagnac	15	222 km S	1,020	27.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	446 km S	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Belmont-sur-Rance	12	394 km S	1,001	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pellevoisin	36	30 km S	792	45.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Clion	36	40 km SW	1,015	31.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Champagnac	15	222 km S	1,020	27.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Cocumont	47	332 km S	1,133	41.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Belmont-sur-Rance	12	394 km S	1,001	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	446 km S	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Meusnes'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
Belmont-sur-Rance	12	394 km S	1,001	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvy-Sautour	89	193 km NE	873	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Paul	87	167 km S	1,235	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Le Donjon	03	201 km SE	1,007	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Dompierre-les-Ormes	71	248 km E	893	63	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Varennes-Changy	45	111 km NE	1,503	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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