Centrès

Aveyron · CC Pays Ségali Communauté · INSEE 12065

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

Few services 22.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Centrès (INSEE 12065) is in Aveyron (12), part of CC Pays Ségali Communauté. Population 462 (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/12065-centres

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 17,955 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.16	10	1.61
Housing mix	0.52	5	2.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE TAURINES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE TAURINES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	CENTRES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CENTRÈS	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	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: 1,012 2023: 462 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 550 (2012) → 462 (2023): -16 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 699 (1990) → 462 (2023): -33.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 406, of which 24.1 % second homes and 16.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.8 km NWBakery — 4.3 km EFood shop — 5.0 km NWGP — 6.4 km NWPharmacy — 6.8 km NW 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 (Centrès): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Naucelle): 5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Naucelle): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Naucelle): 6.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Camjac): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.6

Days at or below 0 °C 43.1

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the QUINS weather station, 8.8 km away at 607 m; the village itself is at 535 m. ^[11]

The village sits 72 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. ^[11]

An average of 955 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CENTRES, 1.5 km away at 500 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12065/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12065/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12065/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12065/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12065
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12169
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12046
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
Verfeil	82	43 km W	402	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 21 % · winter 96 %
Troche	19	157 km NW	534	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 88 %
Salles-Lavalette	16	219 km NW	317	24.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 99 %
Cressat	23	221 km N	512	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 64 %
Meilhards	19	167 km N	545	32.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 80 %
Milhac-de-Nontron	24	194 km NW	520	31	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Verfeil	82	43 km W	402	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 21 % · winter 96 %
Troche	19	157 km NW	534	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 88 %
Meilhards	19	167 km N	545	32.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 80 %
Milhac-de-Nontron	24	194 km NW	520	31	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Salles-Lavalette	16	219 km NW	317	24.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 99 %
Cressat	23	221 km N	512	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 64 %

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