Sainte-Marie

Cantal · CC de Saint-Flour · INSEE 15198

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 4.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Marie (INSEE 15198) is in Cantal (15), part of CC de Saint-Flour. Population 98 (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 4.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 10,424 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.28	10	2.84
Housing mix	0.25	5	1.27

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 1 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 185 2023: 98 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 110 (2012) → 98 (2023): -10.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 125 (1990) → 98 (2023): -21.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 118, of which 37.3 % second homes and 19.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.1 km SEPrimary school — 6.0 km NEGP — 6.1 km NWPharmacy — 6.1 km NWFood shop — 6.2 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 (Espinasse): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pierrefort): 6.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pierrefort): 6.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pierrefort): 6.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère): 6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.6

Days at or below 0 °C 72.5

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 73 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DEUX-VERGES weather station, 13.1 km away at 1,080 m; the village itself is at 833 m. ^[11]

The village sits 247 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at DEUX-VERGES, 13.1 km away at 1,080 m, over 22 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 247 m above 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 1,243 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PIERREFORT, 6.3 km away at 1,000 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 — 15198/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15198/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15198/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15198/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15065
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15152
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15142
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
Alleyrat	19	93 km NW	98	7.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Isenay	58	234 km N	94	5.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Soudat	24	200 km NW	102	11	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 77 %
Bigorno	2B	578 km SE	97	13.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 8 % · humidity 71 %
Pierlas	06	343 km E	98	5.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Pressy-sous-Dondin	71	218 km NE	101	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Alleyrat	19	93 km NW	98	7.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Soudat	24	200 km NW	102	11	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 77 %
Pressy-sous-Dondin	71	218 km NE	101	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Isenay	58	234 km N	94	5.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Pierlas	06	343 km E	98	5.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Bigorno	2B	578 km SE	97	13.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 8 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Sainte-Marie'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
Vitry-Laché	58	264 km N	103	4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Mouron-sur-Yonne	58	266 km N	88	3.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saulmory-Villefranche	55	536 km N	82	4.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Roche-le-Peyroux	19	72 km NW	107	10.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-la-Geneste	19	76 km NW	87	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Péret-Bel-Air	19	94 km NW	84	9.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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