Carlat

Cantal · CA du Bassin d'Aurillac · INSEE 15028

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

Few services 26.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Carlat (INSEE 15028) is in Cantal (15), part of CA du Bassin d'Aurillac. Population 393 (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/15028-carlat

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 57 % of the 17,990 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	0.78	10	7.84
Housing mix	0.57	5	2.87

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 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON BENECH). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAISON BENECH	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 ELEMENTAIRE 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 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: 432 2023: 393 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 346 (2012) → 393 (2023): 13.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 306 (1990) → 393 (2023): 28.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 249, of which 21.3 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.7 km WGP — 6.8 km NPharmacy — 8.5 km W 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 (Vézac): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Carlat): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Polminhac): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Arpajon-sur-Cère): 8.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Carlat): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.5

Days at or below 0 °C 64.6

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the AURILLAC - VILL weather station, 11.3 km away at 707 m; the village itself is at 778 m. ^[12]

The village sits 71 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °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 AURILLAC, 11.5 km away at 632 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 146 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,270 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LABROUSSE, 4.3 km away at 800 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15028/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15028/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15028/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15028/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15255
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15154
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
Sormery	89	368 km N	374	21.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Cudot	89	347 km N	395	22.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Ciez	58	288 km N	378	17.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Point	71	227 km NE	363	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Torpes	71	305 km NE	377	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Soyans	26	196 km E	405	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Soyans	26	196 km E	405	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Point	71	227 km NE	363	20	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Ciez	58	288 km N	378	17.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Torpes	71	305 km NE	377	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Cudot	89	347 km N	395	22.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Sormery	89	368 km N	374	21.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · 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 Carlat'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
Ligny-en-Brionnais	71	196 km NE	375	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaines	89	316 km N	459	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Droiturier	03	174 km NE	364	15.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Courçais	03	176 km N	314	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-Thomas	28	428 km N	335	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Melleroy	45	336 km N	516	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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