Saint-Hippolyte is a village in Indre-et-Loire, in the Center-Val de Loire region, on the edge of the department of Indre.
The village is located 12 km south of Loches and about 60 km south-west of Tours.
Led by the course of the Indre, the territory is mainly intended for agricultural activity (cereals, livestock), with the exception of a few craft units and SMEs in the tertiary sector at the village level.
The commune is included in the production area of Valençay cheese (based on goat milk, and which has a registered designation of origin).
Saint-Hippolyte has about 650 inhabitants, after its population exceeded the thousand in the early twentieth century. Besides the heart of the village itself, many hamlets are attached to the commune of which Vitray, formerly independent, was "annexed" in the nineteenth century.
