Gambais

Yvelines · CC Coeur d'Yvelines · INSEE 78263

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

Partly served 51.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gambais (INSEE 78263) is in Yvelines (78), part of CC Coeur d'Yvelines. Population 2,574 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/78263-gambais

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 8,062 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.66	20	13.11
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.99	10	9.88
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (AU PETIT MARCHE DE GAMBAIS). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (DOMAINE DE FRAGAN · LE MOULIN DE GAMBAIS · SR-3J · L'OPPORTHYM · RUCHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (RELAIS DU CHASTEAU). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (GUDRUN RICHTER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (GAMBAIS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE GAMBAIS COMMUNE DE GAMBAIS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LE SALON DE JULIETTE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AU PETIT MARCHE DE GAMBAIS	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	5	DOMAINE DE FRAGAN · LE MOULIN DE GAMBAIS · SR-3J · L'OPPORTHYM · RUCHE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	RELAIS DU CHASTEAU	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	GUDRUN RICHTER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	GAMBAIS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE GAMBAIS COMMUNE DE GAMBAIS	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	LE SALON DE JULIETTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 1,084 2023: 2,574 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,423 (2012) → 2,574 (2023): 6.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,730 (1990) → 2,574 (2023): 48.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,155, of which 8.2 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Gambais): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gambais): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Gambais): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Gambais): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gambais): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 46.1

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-LEGER_SAPC weather station, 9.1 km away at 176 m; the village itself is at 122 m. ^[9]

The village sits 54 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST-LEGER_SAPC, 9.1 km away at 176 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 54 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 705 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-LEGER_SAPC, 9.1 km away at 176 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78263/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78263/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78263/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78263/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 78263
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
Loretz-d'Argenton	79	240 km SW	2,575	60.1	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Pal-de-Mons	43	439 km SE	2,358	52.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Guégon	56	327 km W	2,365	47.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Monnetier-Mornex	74	449 km SE	2,362	49	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 42 % · humidity 71 %
Morbecque	59	222 km N	2,573	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Corsept	44	324 km SW	2,594	51.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Morbecque	59	222 km N	2,573	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Loretz-d'Argenton	79	240 km SW	2,575	60.1	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 95 %
Corsept	44	324 km SW	2,594	51.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Guégon	56	327 km W	2,365	47.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pal-de-Mons	43	439 km SE	2,358	52.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Monnetier-Mornex	74	449 km SE	2,362	49	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 42 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Gambais'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
Les Touches	44	274 km SW	2,638	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
La Forêt-sur-Sèvre	79	282 km SW	2,250	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Beaumont Saint-Cyr	86	245 km SW	2,908	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Argentonnay	79	254 km SW	3,234	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Oradour-sur-Glane	87	320 km S	2,550	62.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Rouillé	86	289 km SW	2,533	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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