Pierrefiche

Aveyron · CC des Causses à l'Aubrac · INSEE 12182

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

Few services 26.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pierrefiche (INSEE 12182) is in Aveyron (12), part of CC des Causses à l'Aubrac. Population 303 (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/12182-pierrefiche

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 17,846 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.77	10	7.73
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.15

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'ESPERLUETE GOURMANDE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L'ESPERLUETE GOURMANDE	INSEE BPE 1 / 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 205 2023: 303 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 270 (2012) → 303 (2023): 12.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 238 (1990) → 303 (2023): 27.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 200, of which 18.5 % second homes and 14 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 1.9 km NPharmacy — 3.2 km NEGP — 3.7 km NE 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 (Pierrefiche): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint Geniez d'Olt et d'Aubrac): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint Geniez d'Olt et d'Aubrac): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Pierrefiche): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 81.9

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 82 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LAISSAC weather station, 11.3 km away at 599 m; the village itself is at 634 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST-COME-D'OLT, 12.4 km away at 380 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 254 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 1,077 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-GENIEZ-D'OLT, 2.7 km away at 420 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 — 12182/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12182/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12182/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12182/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12182
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12219
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12224
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
Chassant	28	452 km N	299	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Liez	85	357 km NW	302	27.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Bénonces	01	251 km NE	311	26	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Joudes	71	293 km NE	352	21.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Dennevy	71	300 km NE	296	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Volksberg	67	601 km NE	353	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bénonces	01	251 km NE	311	26	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Joudes	71	293 km NE	352	21.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Dennevy	71	300 km NE	296	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Liez	85	357 km NW	302	27.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Chassant	28	452 km N	299	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Volksberg	67	601 km NE	353	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 72 % · 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 Pierrefiche'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
Charcenne	70	392 km NE	295	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Les Ormes	89	380 km N	281	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-André-en-Royans	38	202 km E	342	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bergonne	63	120 km N	329	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Rebeuville	88	481 km NE	294	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Milly-Lamartine	71	252 km NE	353	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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