Bertholène

Aveyron · CC des Causses à l'Aubrac · INSEE 12026

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

Few services 35.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bertholène (INSEE 12026) is in Aveyron (12), part of CC des Causses à l'Aubrac. Population 1,043 (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/12026-bertholene

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 14,071 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.64	10	6.36
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.06

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (DT2R). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LES PALANGES · CHEZ EUGENE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BERTHOLÈNE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	DT2R	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LES PALANGES · CHEZ EUGENE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	BERTHOLENE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BERTHOLÈNE	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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 785 peak 2017: 1,046 2023: 1,043 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,013 (2012) → 1,043 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 918 (1990) → 1,043 (2023): 13.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 572, of which 9.4 % second homes and 12.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.6 km SEBakery — 3.8 km EPharmacy — 3.9 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 (Laissac-Sévérac l'Église): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bertholène): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Laissac-Sévérac l'Église): 3.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Laissac-Sévérac l'Église): 3.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bertholène): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.5

Days at or below 0 °C 54.5

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BERTHOLENE weather station, 1.7 km away at 665 m; the village itself is at 582 m. ^[10]

The village sits 83 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-COME-D'OLT, 13.9 km away at 380 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 202 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,030 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BERTHOLENE, 1.7 km away at 665 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 — 12026/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12026/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12026/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12026/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12120
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12026
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
Radenac	56	579 km NW	1,066	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Villegusien-le-Lac	52	420 km NE	1,000	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
La Roche-de-Rame	05	304 km E	904	51.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vincent	43	122 km NE	1,089	33.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Père-sur-Loire	45	377 km N	1,034	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Melay	71	224 km NE	967	39	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Vincent	43	122 km NE	1,089	33.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Melay	71	224 km NE	967	39	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Roche-de-Rame	05	304 km E	904	51.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Père-sur-Loire	45	377 km N	1,034	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Villegusien-le-Lac	52	420 km NE	1,000	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Radenac	56	579 km NW	1,066	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 68 % · 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 Bertholène'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
Ciry-Salsogne	02	555 km N	882	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Roinville	91	463 km N	1,319	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Peyrat-de-Bellac	87	237 km NW	1,059	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Valsonne	69	216 km NE	1,005	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Trélou-sur-Marne	02	524 km N	952	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Amagne	08	585 km N	814	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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