Gourdièges

Cantal · CC de Saint-Flour · INSEE 15077

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

No daily shops 18.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gourdièges (INSEE 15077) is in Cantal (15), part of CC de Saint-Flour. Population 70 (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 18.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 7,423 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	5	0
Population trend	0.65	10	6.48
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.22

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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	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: 105 2023: 70 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 58 (2012) → 70 (2023): 20.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 61 (1990) → 70 (2023): 14.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 45, of which 17.8 % second homes and 15.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 3.2 km WGP — 3.7 km SWPharmacy — 3.7 km SWBakery — 3.8 km SWPrimary school — 3.8 km SW 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 (Pierrefort): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pierrefort): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pierrefort): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pierrefort): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Pierrefort): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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. ^[9]

Measured at the VALUEJOLS weather station, 13.6 km away at 1,074 m; the village itself is at 1,076 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at COLTINES, 17.6 km away at 979 m, over 27 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 97 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,243 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at PIERREFORT, 3.6 km away at 1,000 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 — 15077/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15077/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15077/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15077/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15152
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
Chuffilly-Roche	08	518 km N	69	13.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Servanches	24	215 km W	76	12.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 27 % · humidity 36 %
Les Cent-Acres	76	553 km N	65	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Sigy	77	394 km N	66	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 20 % · humidity 86 %
L'Albère	66	273 km S	64	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Betpouy	65	267 km SW	72	16.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 22 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Servanches	24	215 km W	76	12.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 27 % · humidity 36 %
Betpouy	65	267 km SW	72	16.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 22 % · humidity 64 %
L'Albère	66	273 km S	64	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Sigy	77	394 km N	66	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 20 % · humidity 86 %
Chuffilly-Roche	08	518 km N	69	13.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Les Cent-Acres	76	553 km N	65	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 0 % · 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 Gourdièges'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
Longcochon	39	321 km NE	59	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Collat	43	67 km NE	77	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lamazière-Haute	19	90 km NW	65	6.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Fleurey	25	399 km NE	84	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Rix	39	319 km NE	76	9.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Vellerot-lès-Vercel	25	376 km NE	65	11	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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