Le Vaulmier

Identity

Le Vaulmier (INSEE 15249) is in Cantal (15), part of CC du Pays de Salers. Population 60 (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/15249-le-vaulmier

Vitality score

Vitality score 7.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 6,186 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT LES 3 BURONS). ^[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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 67 (2012) → 60 (2023): -10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 114 (1990) → 60 (2023): -47.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 126, of which 71.4 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Saint-Vincent-de-Salers): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Falgoux): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Salers): 8.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Trizac): 7.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Trizac): 7.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SALERS weather station, 7.9 km away at 945 m; the village itself is at 789 m. ^[12]

The village sits 156 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LE LIORAN_SAPC, 18.5 km away at 1,236 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 447 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,586 mm of rain a year, spread over 147 days — about 10.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SALERS, 7.9 km away at 945 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15249/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15249/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15249/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 15249/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 15218
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 15066
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 15219
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 15243
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024