Salins

Cantal · CC du Pays de Mauriac · INSEE 15220

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

No daily shops 14.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salins (INSEE 15220) is in Cantal (15), part of CC du Pays de Mauriac. Population 145 (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 14.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 13,841 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	0.38	10	3.84
Housing mix	0.39	5	1.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 215 2023: 145 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 148 (2012) → 145 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 164 (1990) → 145 (2023): -11.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 115, of which 30.4 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.2 km EPrimary school — 3.0 km SGP — 3.9 km NEFood shop — 4.1 km NWPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Anglards-de-Salers): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mauriac): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Anglards-de-Salers): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mauriac): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Drugeac): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.1

Days at or below 0 °C 72.6

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 73 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SALINS weather station, 1.3 km away at 660 m; the village itself is at 685 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MAURIAC, 8.6 km away at 674 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,259 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SALINS, 1.3 km away at 660 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 — 15220/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15220/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15220/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15220/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15006
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15120
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15063
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
Champillet	36	152 km N	136	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Puy-Malsignat	23	95 km N	140	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Trégarvan	29	608 km NW	134	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 34 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Orens-Pouy-Petit	32	210 km SW	161	16.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 41 % · humidity 29 %
Romestaing	47	207 km SW	163	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 38 % · humidity 71 %
Trémouille-Saint-Loup	63	36 km N	140	13.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trémouille-Saint-Loup	63	36 km N	140	13.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Puy-Malsignat	23	95 km N	140	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Champillet	36	152 km N	136	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Romestaing	47	207 km SW	163	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 38 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Orens-Pouy-Petit	32	210 km SW	161	16.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 41 % · humidity 29 %
Trégarvan	29	608 km NW	134	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 34 % · 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 Salins'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
Sauret-Besserve	63	95 km N	163	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Vezels-Roussy	15	45 km S	132	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Radegonde	71	211 km NE	146	5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Conand	01	252 km E	134	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Montmort	71	216 km NE	185	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Agnan-de-Cernières	27	442 km N	148	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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