Basses

Vienne · CC du Pays Loudunais · INSEE 86018

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

No daily shops 17.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Basses (INSEE 86018) is in Vienne (86), part of CC du Pays Loudunais. Population 344 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 18,036 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.45	10	4.45
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.42

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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]
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: 253 peak 1999: 371 2023: 344 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 341 (2012) → 344 (2023): 0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 364 (1990) → 344 (2023): -5.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 172, of which 5.8 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.2 km EPrimary school — 4.2 km SWGP — 4.2 km SWBakery — 4.3 km SWPharmacy — 4.3 km SW 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 (Loudun): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sammarçolles): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Loudun): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Loudun): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Loudun): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.8

Days at or below 0 °C 33.5

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LOUDUN weather station, 1.8 km away at 96 m; the village itself is at 86 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LOUDUN, 1.8 km away at 96 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 637 mm of rain a year, spread over 106 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LOUDUN, 1.8 km away at 96 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 — 86018/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86018/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86018/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86018/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86137
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86252
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
Sigalens	33	288 km S	342	23.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Vausseroux	79	58 km S	334	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 86 %
Baigts	40	380 km S	331	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 99 %
Mantenay-Montlin	01	386 km E	331	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 61 %
Valforêt	21	361 km E	331	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	83 km S	334	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vausseroux	79	58 km S	334	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 86 %
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	83 km S	334	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Sigalens	33	288 km S	342	23.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Valforêt	21	361 km E	331	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Baigts	40	380 km S	331	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 99 %
Mantenay-Montlin	01	386 km E	331	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 61 %

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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 Basses'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
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	83 km S	334	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Mazerolles	16	147 km S	314	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Champniers	86	93 km S	358	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Braslou	37	21 km E	319	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Fontguenand	36	109 km E	248	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bignon-du-Maine	53	115 km NW	322	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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