Le Fau

Cantal · CC du Pays de Salers · INSEE 15067

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

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 92 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Fau (INSEE 15067) is in Cantal (15), part of CC du Pays de Salers. Population 34 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 92 % of the 2,609 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.07	10	0.67
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE PAIN DU BOIS NOIR). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU FAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (AIRE NATURELLE DU CAMPING LISSART D). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	LE PAIN DU BOIS NOIR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	AUBERGE DU FAU	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	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	1	AIRE NATURELLE DU CAMPING LISSART D	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 152 2023: 34 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 27 (2012) → 34 (2023): 25.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 60 (1990) → 34 (2023): -43.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 87, of which 71.3 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 0.8 km EFood shop — 6.6 km NEGP — 7.8 km SPharmacy — 7.8 km SPrimary school — 8.1 km NW 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 (Le Fau): 0.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Falgoux): 6.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Cirgues-de-Jordanne): 7.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Cirgues-de-Jordanne): 7.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Salers): 8.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 91.2

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 91 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LE FAU weather station, 1.8 km away at 1,060 m; the village itself is at 1,014 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at LE LIORAN_SAPC, 13 km away at 1,236 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 222 m above 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 2,102 mm of rain a year, spread over 155 days — about 13.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LE FAU, 1.8 km away at 1,060 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 — 15067/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15067/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15067/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15067/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15067
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15066
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15219
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
Artigue	31	297 km SW	36	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 %
Tramezaïgues	65	315 km SW	30	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Valcebollère	66	305 km S	34	4.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Marchastel	48	65 km SE	44	11.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Artigues	09	268 km S	30	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 92 %
Niort-de-Sault	11	260 km S	34	1.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marchastel	48	65 km SE	44	11.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Niort-de-Sault	11	260 km S	34	1.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Artigues	09	268 km S	30	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 92 %
Artigue	31	297 km SW	36	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 %
Valcebollère	66	305 km S	34	4.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Tramezaïgues	65	315 km SW	30	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · 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 Le Fau'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
Loubaresse	07	128 km SE	43	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Comus	11	260 km S	33	2.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Oreilla	66	284 km S	28	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Montagne	70	438 km NE	37	8.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mayrègne	31	300 km SW	28	9.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Urbanya	66	275 km S	45	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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