Viam

Corrèze · CC Vézère-Monédières-Millesources · INSEE 19284

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

No daily shops 9.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Viam (INSEE 19284) is in Corrèze (19), part of CC Vézère-Monédières-Millesources. Population 85 (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/19284-viam

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 9,031 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	0.14	10	1.39
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 1 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 × Restaurant (CHEZ SANDRA). ^[3,4]

1 × Swimming pool (LAC DE VIAM). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DU LAC DE VIAM). ^[3,4]

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

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]

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)	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	CHEZ SANDRA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	LAC DE VIAM	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	CAMPING DU LAC DE VIAM	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 213 2023: 85 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 110 (2012) → 85 (2023): -22.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 133 (1990) → 85 (2023): -36.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 136, of which 57.4 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 3.5 km EBakery — 3.6 km EFood shop — 3.7 km EPrimary school — 9.3 km NEPharmacy — 10.6 km SW 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 (Bugeat): 3.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bugeat): 3.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bugeat): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Treignac): 10.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Tarnac): 9.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.2

Days at or below 0 °C 94.6▸

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 95 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BUGEAT weather station, 3.7 km away at 694 m; the village itself is at 675 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at PEYRELEVADE, 17 km away at 827 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 152 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,547 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BUGEAT, 3.7 km away at 694 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 — 19284/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19284/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19284/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 19284/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19033
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 19265
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
Éclusier-Vaux	80	487 km N	85	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Novella	2B	668 km SE	80	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Fraissinet-de-Fourques	48	203 km SE	83	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Bassignac-le-Bas	19	65 km S	80	8.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Villeperdrix	26	297 km SE	103	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Pontcharraud	23	42 km NE	82	9.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pontcharraud	23	42 km NE	82	9.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bassignac-le-Bas	19	65 km S	80	8.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Fraissinet-de-Fourques	48	203 km SE	83	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Villeperdrix	26	297 km SE	103	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Éclusier-Vaux	80	487 km N	85	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Novella	2B	668 km SE	80	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Viam'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-Oradoux-de-Chirouze	23	37 km E	71	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Galey	09	307 km S	114	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Pierre-Percée	54	497 km NE	90	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Rosière	70	442 km NE	80	5.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lafarre	43	186 km SE	86	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Gourbit	09	309 km S	82	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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