Paulhac

Cantal · CC de Saint-Flour · INSEE 15148

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

Few services 30.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Paulhac (INSEE 15148) is in Cantal (15), part of CC de Saint-Flour. Population 431 (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/15148-paulhac

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,920 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.34	10	3.43
Housing mix	0.34	5	1.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CHEZ MAUN ET SYLVIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (SAS BURON DE PRAT DE BOUC). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (PAULHAC RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (RELAIS-LECTURE MARIE-CHRISTINE CUSSAC (SECRÉTAIRE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1	CHEZ MAUN ET SYLVIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	SAS BURON DE PRAT DE BOUC	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)	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	1	PAULHAC RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	RELAIS-LECTURE MARIE-CHRISTINE CUSSAC (SECRÉTAIRE	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 721 2023: 431 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 442 (2012) → 431 (2023): -2.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 511 (1990) → 431 (2023): -15.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 326, of which 33.1 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 5.7 km NEPharmacy — 5.8 km NBakery — 8.7 km E 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): 8.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Paulhac): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Valuéjols): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Valuéjols): 5.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Paulhac): 0.1 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. ^[11]

Measured at the VALUEJOLS weather station, 5.8 km away at 1,074 m; the village itself is at 1,109 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at COLTINES, 10.2 km away at 979 m, over 27 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 130 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,309 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 10.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CEZENS, 4.7 km away at 1,240 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15148/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15148/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15148/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15148/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15148
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
Cassaniouze	15	54 km SW	505	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Cornus	12	125 km S	512	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Parthem	12	63 km SW	399	31.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 7 %
Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat	63	120 km N	358	29.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Lassouts	12	58 km S	318	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léons	12	88 km S	424	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cassaniouze	15	54 km SW	505	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Lassouts	12	58 km S	318	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Parthem	12	63 km SW	399	31.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 7 %
Saint-Léons	12	88 km S	424	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat	63	120 km N	358	29.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Cornus	12	125 km S	512	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 59 % · 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 Paulhac'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
Gentioux-Pigerolles	23	112 km NW	398	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Vollore-Montagne	63	105 km NE	312	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Thérondels	12	17 km SW	357	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chomelix	43	78 km E	457	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Talizat	15	16 km NE	592	40.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Monlet	43	68 km E	402	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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