Martiel

Aveyron · CC Ouest Aveyron Communauté · INSEE 12140

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

Few services 33.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Martiel (INSEE 12140) is in Aveyron (12), part of CC Ouest Aveyron Communauté. Population 1,008 (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/12140-martiel

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 44 % of the 14,278 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	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.76	10	7.63
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.41

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 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

3 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LA BERGERIE). ^[4]

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

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

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE POLYVALENTE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (FLOWER CAMPING LAC AUX OISEAUX). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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]
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	3		INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LA BERGERIE	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	MARTIEL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MARTIEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE POLYVALENTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3		INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	FLOWER CAMPING LAC AUX OISEAUX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 677 peak 2017: 1,009 2023: 1,008 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 972 (2012) → 1,008 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 798 (1990) → 1,008 (2023): 26.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 641, of which 15.9 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.6 km SEFood shop — 6.0 km EGP — 8.8 km EPharmacy — 9.0 km E 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 (Savignac): 3.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villefranche-de-Rouergue): 6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villefranche-de-Rouergue): 8.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villefranche-de-Rouergue): 9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Martiel): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.5

Days at or below 0 °C 62.9

Muggy days a summer 2.4

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 63 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VILLEFRANCH IFIP weather station, 6.1 km away at 337 m; the village itself is at 381 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VILLEFRANCHE-DE-ROUERGUE, 8 km away at 330 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 51 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 856 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLEFRANCH IFIP, 6.1 km away at 337 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12140/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12140/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12140/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12140/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12263
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12300
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12140
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
Villegusien-le-Lac	52	456 km NE	1,000	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Lussault-sur-Loire	37	345 km N	886	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vincent	43	178 km NE	1,089	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Serques	62	714 km N	1,210	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 13 % · winter 43 %
Radenac	56	535 km NW	1,066	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Commana	29	636 km NW	983	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Vincent	43	178 km NE	1,089	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lussault-sur-Loire	37	345 km N	886	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Villegusien-le-Lac	52	456 km NE	1,000	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Radenac	56	535 km NW	1,066	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Commana	29	636 km NW	983	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Serques	62	714 km N	1,210	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 13 % · winter 43 %

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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 Martiel'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
Saint-Remèze	07	205 km E	847	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Claveyson	26	254 km E	934	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Cabrières-d'Aigues	84	293 km E	946	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Nervieux	42	237 km NE	1,040	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Izeron	38	286 km E	809	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bellegarde-Poussieu	38	263 km NE	1,007	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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