Chasteaux

Corrèze · CA du Bassin de Brive · INSEE 19049

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 29/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chasteaux (INSEE 19049) is in Corrèze (19), part of CA du Bassin de Brive. Population 754 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/19049-chasteaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 29/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 16,012 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.61	5	3.06

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BROCHE SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BROCHE SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 413 peak 2017: 762 2023: 754 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 630 (2012) → 754 (2023): 19.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 455 (1990) → 754 (2023): 65.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 444, of which 19.4 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.8 km WBakery — 4.0 km SEGP — 4.8 km NWPharmacy — 5.3 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 (Nespouls): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chasteaux): 0.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche): 4.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Larche): 5.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Chasteaux): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 31.1

Days at or below 0 °C 59.2

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BRIVE weather station, 6 km away at 115 m; the village itself is at 178 m. ^[12]

The village sits 63 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BRIVE, 6 km away at 115 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 63 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 896 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BRIVE, 6 km away at 115 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19049/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19049/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19049/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19049/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19147
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19049
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19229
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19107
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 Vieille-Lyre	27	429 km N	648	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 96 %
Autrêches	60	499 km N	738	28	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Criquiers	76	510 km N	716	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Mouettes	27	423 km N	744	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
La Rouquette	12	97 km SE	777	20.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Burdignin	74	405 km E	712	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Rouquette	12	97 km SE	777	20.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Burdignin	74	405 km E	712	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Mouettes	27	423 km N	744	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
La Vieille-Lyre	27	429 km N	648	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 96 %
Autrêches	60	499 km N	738	28	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Criquiers	76	510 km N	716	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Chasteaux'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
Avressieux	73	335 km E	544	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saussenac	81	139 km SE	632	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Hautecourt-Romanèche	01	329 km NE	748	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Hélène-du-Lac	73	362 km E	855	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Oriol-en-Royans	26	299 km E	518	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Rivas	42	224 km E	747	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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