Colombiers

Vienne · CA Grand Châtellerault · INSEE 86081

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

Few services 26.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Colombiers (INSEE 86081) is in Vienne (86), part of CA Grand Châtellerault. Population 1,405 (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/86081-colombiers

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 12,088 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.59	10	5.93
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.19

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LECLERC PIERRICK). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU VAL D'ENVIGNE). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser (LA GALANTE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	LECLERC PIERRICK	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU VAL D'ENVIGNE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	COLOMBIERS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	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	LA GALANTE	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: 790 peak 2012: 1,513 2023: 1,405 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,513 (2012) → 1,405 (2023): -7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,286 (1990) → 1,405 (2023): 9.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 643, of which 8.1 % second homes and 3.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.1 km EPharmacy — 4.5 km NBakery — 4.6 km SFood shop — 4.6 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 (Beaumont Saint-Cyr): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Beaumont Saint-Cyr): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Naintré): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Scorbé-Clairvaux): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Colombiers): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.4

Days at or below 0 °C 36.9

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MARIGNY BRIZAY weather station, 3.9 km away at 120 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MARIGNY BRIZAY, 3.9 km away at 120 m, over 18 summers. ^[12]

An average of 638 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MARIGNY BRIZAY, 3.9 km away at 120 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86081/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86081/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86081/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86081/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86019
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86174
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86258
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86081
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
La Méaugon	22	311 km NW	1,320	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Locunolé	29	321 km NW	1,177	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Orval sur Sienne	50	287 km NW	1,233	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Julien-de-Coppel	63	252 km SE	1,281	28.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Plougourvest	29	392 km NW	1,522	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Doue	77	310 km NE	1,122	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Julien-de-Coppel	63	252 km SE	1,281	28.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Orval sur Sienne	50	287 km NW	1,233	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Doue	77	310 km NE	1,122	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
La Méaugon	22	311 km NW	1,320	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Locunolé	29	321 km NW	1,177	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Plougourvest	29	392 km NW	1,522	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Colombiers'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
Limeray	37	90 km NE	1,252	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vincent-sur-Oust	56	220 km NW	1,679	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Philbert-du-Peuple	49	78 km NW	1,307	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Teillay	35	188 km NW	1,117	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Romain-d'Ay	07	373 km SE	1,164	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Tauxigny-Saint-Bauld	37	58 km NE	1,688	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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