Doussay

Vienne · CA Grand Châtellerault · INSEE 86096

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

Few services 37.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Doussay (INSEE 86096) is in Vienne (86), part of CA Grand Châtellerault. Population 690 (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/86096-doussay

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 16,465 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.72	10	7.21
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.38

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE DULCIA). ^[4]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE DULCIA	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE DOUSSAY	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	DOUSSAY AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 [3,4]
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: 649 2023: 690 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 659 (2012) → 690 (2023): 4.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 565 (1990) → 690 (2023): 22.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 341, of which 6.2 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 5.0 km SEBakery — 5.2 km SEGP — 5.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.2 km SE 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 (Lencloître): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lencloître): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lencloître): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lencloître): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Doussay): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.8

Days at or below 0 °C 46.8

Muggy days a summer 4

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DOUSSAY weather station, 1.4 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 88 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DOUSSAY, 1.4 km away at 95 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 616 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at DOUSSAY, 1.4 km away at 95 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 — 86096/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86096/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86096/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86096/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86128
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86096
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
Saint-Vincent-la-Châtre	79	73 km S	589	36	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Verneil-le-Chétif	72	99 km N	584	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Courcemont	72	148 km N	664	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 96 %
Condéon	16	163 km S	606	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Assais-les-Jumeaux	79	26 km W	763	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Montesquieu	82	302 km S	748	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Assais-les-Jumeaux	79	26 km W	763	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Vincent-la-Châtre	79	73 km S	589	36	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Verneil-le-Chétif	72	99 km N	584	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Courcemont	72	148 km N	664	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 96 %
Condéon	16	163 km S	606	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Montesquieu	82	302 km S	748	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Doussay'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
Sauveterre-de-Comminges	31	425 km S	702	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Sillars	86	61 km SE	584	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jal	19	192 km SE	594	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Allonne	79	58 km SW	608	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvy-Bouin	79	59 km W	487	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chouppes	86	9.1 km SW	802	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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