Arpajon-sur-Cère

Cantal · CA du Bassin d'Aurillac · INSEE 15012

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arpajon-sur-Cère (INSEE 15012) is in Cantal (15), part of CA du Bassin d'Aurillac. Population 6,361 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/15012-arpajon-sur-cere

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 3,749 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	0.28	25	6.97
Social	0.79	20	15.78
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.7	10	7.01
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.55

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 5 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 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL BOULANGERIE MAS). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (J.BASTIDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ALIMENTATION GENERALE ARPAJON). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CITY). ^[3,4]

1 × Cheese shop (fromagerie) (MORIN FROMAGER). ^[4]

5 × Restaurant (HAYE - AJALBERT · L'ATELIER DU TERROIR). ^[3,4]

8 × Café / bar (BAR DU MOULIN · RESTAURANT LE TEMPO EXPRESS · CAFE DU COMMERCE · BAR DE LA COTE · BLUES CAFE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

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

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AYMAR RAMBAUD, MÉDECIN · JEAN-JACQUES MEYNIEL, MÉDECIN · ANOUK RONDOLAT, MÉDECIN · PAUL SIMBELIE, MÉDECIN · JEAN-MICHEL ROIG, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE ALAUX · PHARMACIE DE LA CERE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE ECUREUIL · CAISSE LOCALE DU CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · BANQUE POPULAIRE AUVERGNE RHONE ALPES). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (ROSSIGNOL YVETTE · PASSION COIFFURE · LK COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LES PROVINCIALES). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DE LA CÈRE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Bank, 1 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SARL BOULANGERIE MAS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	J.BASTIDE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	ALIMENTATION GENERALE ARPAJON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR CITY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	1	MORIN FROMAGER	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	5	HAYE - AJALBERT · L'ATELIER DU TERROIR	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	8	BAR DU MOULIN · RESTAURANT LE TEMPO EXPRESS · CAFE DU COMMERCE · BAR DE LA COTE · BLUES CAFE	INSEE SIRENE 8 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	8	AYMAR RAMBAUD, MÉDECIN · JEAN-JACQUES MEYNIEL, MÉDECIN · ANOUK RONDOLAT, MÉDECIN · PAUL SIMBELIE, MÉDECIN · JEAN-MICHEL ROIG, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE ALAUX · PHARMACIE DE LA CERE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE D'EPARGNE ECUREUIL · CAISSE LOCALE DU CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · BANQUE POPULAIRE AUVERGNE RHONE ALPES	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	5	ROSSIGNOL YVETTE · PASSION COIFFURE · LK COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LES PROVINCIALES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING DE LA CÈRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 3,277 2023: 6,361 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 6,192 (2012) → 6,361 (2023): 2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 5,296 (1990) → 6,361 (2023): 20.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,393, of which 4.5 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[7]

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 (Arpajon-sur-Cère): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arpajon-sur-Cère): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Arpajon-sur-Cère): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Arpajon-sur-Cère): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arpajon-sur-Cère): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.6

Days at or below 0 °C 70

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 70 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the AURILLAC weather station, 3.3 km away at 632 m; the village itself is at 607 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at AURILLAC, 3.3 km away at 632 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,122 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at AURILLAC, 3.3 km away at 632 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15012/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15012/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15012/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15012/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15012
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
Plescop	56	510 km NW	6,362	55.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Mutzig	67	555 km NE	6,087	55.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Marignier	74	342 km NE	6,507	56.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts	13	260 km SE	6,175	67.3	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 36 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-André-de-Sangonis	34	162 km SE	6,427	60.1	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Thoiry	01	312 km NE	6,569	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-André-de-Sangonis	34	162 km SE	6,427	60.1	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts	13	260 km SE	6,175	67.3	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 36 % · humidity 29 %
Thoiry	01	312 km NE	6,569	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Marignier	74	342 km NE	6,507	56.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Plescop	56	510 km NW	6,362	55.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Mutzig	67	555 km NE	6,087	55.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Arpajon-sur-Cère'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
Marignier	74	342 km NE	6,507	56.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ceyrat	63	104 km NE	6,592	50.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Champigneulles	54	511 km NE	6,551	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Laneuveville-devant-Nancy	54	507 km NE	6,630	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Seloncourt	25	442 km NE	5,854	48.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Orgeval	78	448 km N	7,252	70	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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