Cussac

Cantal · CC de Saint-Flour · INSEE 15059

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

No daily shops 14.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cussac (INSEE 15059) is in Cantal (15), part of CC de Saint-Flour. Population 117 (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/15059-cussac

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 11,932 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.23	10	2.31
Housing mix	0.37	5	1.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Library (RELAIS-LECTURE MAIRIE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	RELAIS-LECTURE MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 236 2023: 117 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 136 (2012) → 117 (2023): -14 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 160 (1990) → 117 (2023): -26.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 111, of which 31.5 % second homes and 15.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 3.0 km NWPrimary school — 3.4 km NWBakery — 6.6 km EGP — 7.2 km SEPharmacy — 7.8 km N 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 (Les Ternes): 6.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Paulhac): 3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Valuéjols): 7.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Paulhac): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.2

Days at or below 0 °C 110.2▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 110 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VALUEJOLS weather station, 7.7 km away at 1,074 m; the village itself is at 1,048 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at COLTINES, 11 km away at 979 m, over 27 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 69 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 915 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LES TERNES, 5.4 km away at 1,007 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 — 15059/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15059/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15059/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15059/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15148
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15142
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15248
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
Vailhan	34	162 km S	142	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Foissy-lès-Vézelay	89	280 km N	115	12.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Clermont-de-Beauregard	24	181 km W	120	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 26 % · humidity 50 %
Freycenet-la-Tour	43	89 km E	117	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Sausses	04	324 km E	131	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 3 % · winter 9 %
Lusigny-sur-Ouche	21	270 km NE	115	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 12 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Freycenet-la-Tour	43	89 km E	117	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Vailhan	34	162 km S	142	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Clermont-de-Beauregard	24	181 km W	120	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 26 % · humidity 50 %
Lusigny-sur-Ouche	21	270 km NE	115	18.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 12 % · humidity 93 %
Foissy-lès-Vézelay	89	280 km N	115	12.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Sausses	04	324 km E	131	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 3 % · winter 9 %

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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 Cussac'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
Valoreille	25	390 km NE	128	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Supt	39	313 km NE	110	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Freney	73	291 km E	116	6.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Thiolières	63	89 km NE	164	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Beyrède-Jumet-Camous	65	304 km SW	194	11.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ordonnaz	01	224 km NE	151	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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