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Bellechassagne

Corrèze · CC Haute-Corrèze Communauté · INSEE 19021

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

No daily shops 13.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bellechassagne (INSEE 19021) is in Corrèze (19), part of CC Haute-Corrèze Communauté. Population 102 (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/19021-bellechassagne

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 10,792 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.92109.17
Housing mix0.4252.12

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 90 2023: 102 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 77 (2012) → 102 (2023): 32.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 72 (1990) → 102 (2023): 41.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 73, of which 28.8 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.4 km NW (Sornac)Food shop — 3.5 km NW (Sornac)Primary school — 3.6 km NW (Sornac)GP — 7.1 km N (La Courtine)Pharmacy — 7.2 km N (La Courtine)
Bakery — 3.4 km NWFood shop — 3.5 km NWPrimary school — 3.6 km NWGP — 7.1 km NPharmacy — 7.2 km N 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 (Sornac): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sornac): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (La Courtine): 7.1 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (La Courtine): 7.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Sornac): 3.6 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 105 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the USSEL-LAMARTINE weather station, 12.1 km away at 654 m; the village itself is at 740 m. [10]

The village sits 86 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at USSEL-COUZERGUES, 11 km away at 670 m, over 10 summers. [10]

That station sits 70 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 1,169 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ST-GERMAIN-LAV., 3.7 km away at 684 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19021/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19021/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19021/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19021/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 19261
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23067
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Repentigny14429 km N10214.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 4 % · humidity 79 %
Carayac46124 km S10414.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 11 % · humidity 79 %
Teillots2489 km SW1006.2No daily shopsno figures
Pouvrai61320 km NW1039.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 19 %
Cazalrenoux11273 km S10514.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Doissat24136 km SW996No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Teillots2489 km SW1006.2No daily shopsno figures
Carayac46124 km S10414.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 11 % · humidity 79 %
Doissat24136 km SW996No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %
Cazalrenoux11273 km S10514.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Pouvrai61320 km NW1039.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 19 %
Repentigny14429 km N10214.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 4 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Bellechassagne'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Feyt1920 km E1107.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Romain-sur-Meuse52377 km NE892.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
La Pouge2343 km NW9610.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Oradoux-près-Crocq2329 km NE1095.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chavagnac1575 km SE884.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Avit-le-Pauvre2341 km N9313.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %