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Surin

Vienne · CC du Civraisien en Poitou · INSEE 86266

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

No daily shops 13.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Surin (INSEE 86266) is in Vienne (86), part of CC du Civraisien en Poitou. Population 123 (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/86266-surin

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 12,401 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.31103.15
Housing mix0.452.01

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar (GREYROX PUB). [4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar1GREYROX PUBINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 265 2023: 123 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 109 (2012) → 123 (2023): 12.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 151 (1990) → 123 (2023): -18.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 117, of which 29.9 % second homes and 18.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 4.0 km NW (Genouillé)Primary school — 7.0 km W (Lizant)Bakery — 7.1 km W (Lizant)GP — 7.4 km N (Charroux)Pharmacy — 7.7 km N (Charroux)
Food shop — 4.0 km NWPrimary school — 7.0 km WBakery — 7.1 km WGP — 7.4 km NPharmacy — 7.7 km N 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 (Lizant): 7.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Genouillé): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Charroux): 7.4 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Charroux): 7.7 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Lizant): 7 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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. [11]

Measured at the CIVRAY weather station, 10.7 km away at 143 m; the village itself is at 166 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at CIVRAY, 10.7 km away at 143 m, over 29 summers. [11]

An average of 830 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at CIVRAY, 10.7 km away at 143 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86266/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86266/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86266/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86266/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86136
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86104
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 86061
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Trégarvan29423 km NW13413.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Chadenet48309 km SE12317.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Ponches-Estruval80484 km N12715.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Champillet36144 km E13614.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne61312 km N11113.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Puy-Malsignat23143 km E14012.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Puy-Malsignat23143 km E14012.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Champillet36144 km E13614.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Chadenet48309 km SE12317.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne61312 km N11113.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Trégarvan29423 km NW13413.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Ponches-Estruval80484 km N12715.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · 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 Surin'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Champillet36144 km E13614.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Lalande89286 km NE12310.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chirat-l'Église03206 km E1298.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Chanceaux-près-Loches37126 km N10913.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chazelet3695 km NE1247.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Arifat81300 km SE12820.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %