Saint-Martial-de-Gimel

Corrèze · CA Tulle Agglo · INSEE 19220

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

Few services 32.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Martial-de-Gimel (INSEE 19220) is in Corrèze (19), part of CA Tulle Agglo. Population 489 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 32.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 17,809 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.5	10	5.04
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.15

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE CAP VERT). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST MARTIAL DE GIMEL AP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	LE CAP VERT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
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	1	ST MARTIAL DE GIMEL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
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: 497 2023: 489 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 462 (2012) → 489 (2023): 5.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 487 (1990) → 489 (2023): 0.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 340, of which 18.5 % second homes and 14.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 7.2 km SFood shop — 7.3 km SPharmacy — 7.7 km W 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 (Saint-Martial-de-Gimel): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour): 7.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour): 7.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tulle): 7.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Martial-de-Gimel): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12

Days at or below 0 °C 39.4

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the NAVES weather station, 9.9 km away at 450 m; the village itself is at 489 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at NAVES, 9.9 km away at 450 m, over 22 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,254 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BAR, 9.4 km away at 269 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 — 19220/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19220/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19220/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19220/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19220
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19098
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19272
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 Chapelle-du-Bard	38	330 km E	541	41.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 92 %
Saint-Priest-de-Gimel	19	6.9 km N	480	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeure-d'Ay	07	222 km E	495	40	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois	61	406 km N	440	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Les Bordes	89	335 km N	551	38.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Castelfranc	46	99 km SW	428	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 92 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Priest-de-Gimel	19	6.9 km N	480	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Castelfranc	46	99 km SW	428	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 92 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Jeure-d'Ay	07	222 km E	495	40	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-du-Bard	38	330 km E	541	41.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 92 %
Les Bordes	89	335 km N	551	38.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois	61	406 km N	440	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · 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 Saint-Martial-de-Gimel'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
Saint-Priest-de-Gimel	19	6.9 km N	480	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois	61	406 km N	440	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Cons-la-Grandville	54	550 km NE	522	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Réminiac	56	426 km NW	438	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Tilly	78	403 km N	530	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Autainville	41	293 km N	421	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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