Salles-Curan

Aveyron · CC de Lévézou Pareloup · INSEE 12253

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

Partly served 49.3/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salles-Curan (INSEE 12253) is in Aveyron (12), part of CC de Lévézou Pareloup. 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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 49.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 82 % 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.7	20	14.09
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.32	10	3.17
Housing mix	0.14	5	0.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE BLANC · BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE DES LACS). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CODISUD · AU TEMPS D'ANTAN). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (L'EXCEPTION · LES REFLETS DU LAC). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (CAFE GAVALDA · DELTA BAR · LE BELLEVUE). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE EUGENE VIALA · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PRIVE DES MONTS ET LACS). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MATTHIEU JERGER, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE DARCOURT-LEZAT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE VERMOREL). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SALLES-CURAN). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (SALLE DE PROJECTION SPECTACLE DU GRENIER DE MONSIEUR). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (LAC DE PARELOUP). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (EMILY COIFFURE · MARIELLE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Hotel (LES TILLEULS · AUX BERGES DE PARELOUP). ^[3,4]

7 × Campsite (CAMPING LA VERNHIERE · CAMPING LE TOURING · CAMPING MUNICIPAL · CAMPING LES GENETS · SITES ET PAYSAGES BEAU-RIVAGE DU LAC DE PARELOUP). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE BLANC · BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE DES LACS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	CODISUD · AU TEMPS D'ANTAN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	2	L'EXCEPTION · LES REFLETS DU LAC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	CAFE GAVALDA · DELTA BAR · LE BELLEVUE	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE EUGENE VIALA · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PRIVE DES MONTS ET LACS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	MATTHIEU JERGER, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE DARCOURT-LEZAT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE VERMOREL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SALLES CURAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SALLES-CURAN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	SALLE DE PROJECTION SPECTACLE DU GRENIER DE MONSIEUR	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	1	LAC DE PARELOUP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	EMILY COIFFURE · MARIELLE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	2	LES TILLEULS · AUX BERGES DE PARELOUP	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Campsite	7	CAMPING LA VERNHIERE · CAMPING LE TOURING · CAMPING MUNICIPAL · CAMPING LES GENETS · SITES ET PAYSAGES BEAU-RIVAGE DU LAC DE PARELOUP	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market: Saturday 8h à 12h30 Place de la Mairie. ^[5,6,7]

Confirmed by two independent sources: Commune website and DATAtourisme.

Trajectory

1968: 1,538 2023: 1,043 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,068 (2012) → 1,043 (2023): -2.3 % over 10 years. ^[8,1]

Population 1,277 (1990) → 1,043 (2023): -18.3 % over 30 years. ^[9,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,037, of which 42.8 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. ^[10]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Salles-Curan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Food shop (Salles-Curan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

GP (Salles-Curan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Salles-Curan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Salles-Curan): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.4

Days at or below 0 °C 61.8

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SALLES CURAN weather station, 7 km away at 959 m; the village itself is at 852 m. ^[12]

The village sits 107 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MILLAU, 19.7 km away at 712 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 140 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,060 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SALLES CURAN, 7 km away at 959 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12253/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.salles-curan.fr/— “8h à 12h30 - Place de la Mairie. Marché de plein vent tous les samedis matin dans les rues du village.”
DATAtourisme 2026-03— https://data.datatourisme.fr/31/f38871e7-9af2-3538-a463-b314b84c309d— “Marché de plein vent tous les samedis matin dans les rues du village.”
DATAtourisme 2026-04— https://data.datatourisme.fr/31/d664d4e7-9547-320f-9cf2-21fd1e728c23— “Foire le 1er samedi du mois dans les rues du village.”
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12253/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12253/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 12253/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 12253
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
Ménerbes	84	197 km E	962	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 36 % · humidity 50 %
Mazet-Saint-Voy	43	150 km NE	1,114	42.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare	34	62 km S	859	60.1	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 47 % · humidity 79 %
Peyrat-le-Château	87	198 km NW	1,025	41.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Larmor-Baden	56	580 km NW	917	58.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 45 % · humidity 79 %
Plougrescant	22	693 km NW	1,242	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare	34	62 km S	859	60.1	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 47 % · humidity 79 %
Mazet-Saint-Voy	43	150 km NE	1,114	42.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Ménerbes	84	197 km E	962	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 36 % · humidity 50 %
Peyrat-le-Château	87	198 km NW	1,025	41.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Larmor-Baden	56	580 km NW	917	58.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 45 % · humidity 79 %
Plougrescant	22	693 km NW	1,242	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Salles-Curan'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
Pleaux	15	115 km NW	1,470	52.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Chaudes-Aigues	15	77 km N	813	67.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Meyrueis	48	51 km E	770	72	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Thiézac	15	93 km N	590	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Nectaire	63	157 km N	822	65.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Cognac-la-Forêt	87	231 km NW	1,188	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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