Quézac

Cantal · CC de la Châtaigneraie Cantalienne · INSEE 15157

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

Few services 29.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Quézac (INSEE 15157) is in Cantal (15), part of CC de la Châtaigneraie Cantalienne. Population 344 (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/15157-quezac

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 18,036 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.48	10	4.83
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (LE RELAIS DE BEDOU · 3B). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE QUÉZAC). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	2	LE RELAIS DE BEDOU · 3B	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE QUÉZAC	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 411 peak 1975: 430 2023: 344 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 312 (2012) → 344 (2023): 10.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 350 (1990) → 344 (2023): -1.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 182, of which 13.7 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.0 km SPharmacy — 4.0 km SBakery — 4.1 km SGP — 4.3 km S 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 (Maurs): 4.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Étienne-de-Maurs): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Maurs): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Maurs): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Quézac): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21

Days at or below 0 °C 39

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MAURS weather station, 2.2 km away at 480 m; the village itself is at 474 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MAURS, 2.2 km away at 480 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,166 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MAURS, 2.2 km away at 480 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 — 15157/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15157/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15157/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15157/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15122
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15184
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15157
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
La Chaux	71	332 km NE	322	31	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Moissannes	87	135 km N	328	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Omps	15	16 km NE	314	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vernet-Sainte-Marguerite	63	113 km NE	327	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Chalais	24	130 km NW	405	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
La Jaille-Yvon	49	397 km NW	343	31	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 96 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Omps	15	16 km NE	314	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vernet-Sainte-Marguerite	63	113 km NE	327	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Chalais	24	130 km NW	405	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Moissannes	87	135 km N	328	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
La Chaux	71	332 km NE	322	31	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
La Jaille-Yvon	49	397 km NW	343	31	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 96 %

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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 Quézac'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
Chalais	24	130 km NW	405	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Lorlanges	43	107 km NE	425	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Tranzault	36	211 km N	349	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Cirgues	46	5.0 km W	324	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Anjouin	36	273 km N	313	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Marcel	81	77 km S	385	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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