Civray

Vienne · CC du Civraisien en Poitou · INSEE 86078

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

Served 65/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Civray (INSEE 86078) is in Vienne (86), part of CC du Civraisien en Poitou. Population 2,522 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/86078-civray

Vitality score

Vitality score 65/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 97 % of the 8,199 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	0.55	25	13.81
Social	0.86	20	17.29
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.78	10	7.75
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.4	10	3.96
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.13

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE FRASLIN · BOULANGERIE SEURU). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (TE MANA). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (COOP ATLANTIQUE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (LIDL · SUPER U). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (O CITY'VEN · O BIS · KURDISTAN 86 · HOTEL DU COMMERCE). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (LE CADRAN · CAFE DU COMMERCE · CAFE DE LA PAIX). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE JEANNE D ARC). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE CAMILLE CLAUDEL · COLLEGE PRIVE JEANNE D'ARC). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CELINE VENET, MÉDECIN · JULIEN PROVOST, MÉDECIN · CHARLES PAITEL, MÉDECIN · NICOLE MOREAUD, MÉDECIN · SYLVIE GEAY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE QUERAUX CHATAIGNER · PHARMACIE MODERNE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (LE CINE-MALICE). ^[3]

4 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE BEAUSEJOUR · COLLEGE CAMILLE CLAUDEL · COLLEGE JEANNE D ARC · LYCEE ANDRE THEURIET). ^[3]

5 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE AQUITAINE POITOU C · CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE · BANQUE POPULAIRE AQUITAINE CENTRE ATLANTIQUE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE CIVRAY · PR EMPLOI PERSONNEL CCM CIVRAY). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (CREA'TIF COIFFURE · HAIR DES ILES · LE FLOCK LAURA · L'HAIR AU NATUREL). ^[3,4]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

2 × Hotel (LE CADRAN · HOTEL DU COMMERCE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE RIVAGE CIVRAISIEN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Bank.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE FRASLIN · BOULANGERIE SEURU	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	TE MANA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	COOP ATLANTIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	LIDL · SUPER U	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	4	O CITY'VEN · O BIS · KURDISTAN 86 · HOTEL DU COMMERCE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	LE CADRAN · CAFE DU COMMERCE · CAFE DE LA PAIX	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE JEANNE D ARC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE CAMILLE CLAUDEL · COLLEGE PRIVE JEANNE D'ARC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	CELINE VENET, MÉDECIN · JULIEN PROVOST, MÉDECIN · CHARLES PAITEL, MÉDECIN · NICOLE MOREAUD, MÉDECIN · SYLVIE GEAY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE QUERAUX CHATAIGNER · PHARMACIE MODERNE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	LE CINE-MALICE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	4	GYMNASE BEAUSEJOUR · COLLEGE CAMILLE CLAUDEL · COLLEGE JEANNE D ARC · LYCEE ANDRE THEURIET	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	5	CAISSE D'EPARGNE AQUITAINE POITOU C · CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE · BANQUE POPULAIRE AQUITAINE CENTRE ATLANTIQUE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE CIVRAY · PR EMPLOI PERSONNEL CCM CIVRAY	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Hairdresser	4	CREA'TIF COIFFURE · HAIR DES ILES · LE FLOCK LAURA · L'HAIR AU NATUREL	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	2	LE CADRAN · HOTEL DU COMMERCE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LE RIVAGE CIVRAISIEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 3,034 peak 1975: 3,108 2023: 2,522 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,900 (2012) → 2,522 (2023): -13 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,814 (1990) → 2,522 (2023): -10.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,678, of which 8.7 % second homes and 14.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.6 km S 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 (Civray): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Civray): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Civray): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Civray): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.5

Days at or below 0 °C 35.7

Muggy days a summer 2.1

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 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CIVRAY weather station, 1.3 km away at 143 m; the village itself is at 119 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CIVRAY, 1.3 km away at 143 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

An average of 830 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CIVRAY, 1.3 km away at 143 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86078/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86078/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86078/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86078/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86078
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
Ambrières-les-Vallées	53	260 km N	2,619	63.6	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Montholon	89	301 km NE	2,709	55.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Châtillon-sur-Indre	36	115 km NE	2,293	58.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Percy-en-Normandie	50	327 km N	2,641	64.8	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Malestroit	56	275 km NW	2,558	73	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Tallard	05	488 km E	2,292	74.7	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Châtillon-sur-Indre	36	115 km NE	2,293	58.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Ambrières-les-Vallées	53	260 km N	2,619	63.6	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Malestroit	56	275 km NW	2,558	73	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montholon	89	301 km NE	2,709	55.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Percy-en-Normandie	50	327 km N	2,641	64.8	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Tallard	05	488 km E	2,292	74.7	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Civray'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
Châtillon-sur-Indre	36	115 km NE	2,293	58.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Appoigny	89	311 km NE	3,114	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Entre-deux-Guiers	38	431 km E	1,915	57.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Descartes	37	97 km N	3,369	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Nalliers	85	108 km W	2,389	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Uzerche	19	127 km SE	2,814	53.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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