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Feins-en-Gâtinais

Loiret · CC Berry Loire Puisaye · INSEE 45143

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 2.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Feins-en-Gâtinais (INSEE 45143) is in Loiret (45), part of CC Berry Loire Puisaye. Population 29 (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/45143-feins-en-gatinais

Vitality score

Vitality score 2.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 1,915 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0100
Housing mix0.4452.2

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 111 2023: 29 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 44 (2012) → 29 (2023): -34.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 59 (1990) → 29 (2023): -50.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 25, of which 28 % second homes and 4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.1 km E (Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses)Primary school — 3.2 km E (Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses)Food shop — 8.2 km N (Châtillon-Coligny)Pharmacy — 8.5 km N (Châtillon-Coligny)GP — 9.5 km N (Châtillon-Coligny)
Bakery — 3.1 km EPrimary school — 3.2 km EFood shop — 8.2 km NPharmacy — 8.5 km NGP — 9.5 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 (Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Châtillon-Coligny): 8.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Châtillon-Coligny): 9.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Châtillon-Coligny): 8.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LES CHOUX weather station, 13.7 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 158 m. [10]

An average of 791 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at OUZOUER_SUR_TREZEE, 8.6 km away at 150 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45143/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  4. INSEE BPE 2025
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45143/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45143/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45143/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 89324
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 45085
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Clermont-sur-Lauquet11524 km S2912.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 45 %
Barjon21159 km E296.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 76 %
Faverolles-lès-Lucey21151 km E2914No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 69 %
Recologne70221 km E308.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 88 %
Châtelard23200 km S296.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 91 %
Samuran65557 km S2714.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 77 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Faverolles-lès-Lucey21151 km E2914No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 69 %
Barjon21159 km E296.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 76 %
Châtelard23200 km S296.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 91 %
Recologne70221 km E308.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 88 %
Clermont-sur-Lauquet11524 km S2912.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 45 %
Samuran65557 km S2714.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 77 %

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