Ars

Creuse · CC Creuse Sud Ouest · INSEE 23007

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

No daily shops 17.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ars (INSEE 23007) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Sud Ouest. Population 239 (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/23007-ars

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 17,009 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.47	10	4.68
Housing mix	0.15	5	0.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (ARS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE D'ARS). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	ARS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE D'ARS	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 336 2023: 239 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 260 (2012) → 239 (2023): -8.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 247 (1990) → 239 (2023): -3.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 241, of which 42.3 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.4 km WBakery — 5.5 km NWFood shop — 7.5 km NPharmacy — 8.4 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 (Fransèches): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lavaveix-les-Mines): 7.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Georges-la-Pouge): 8.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Ars): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.7

Days at or below 0 °C 95.7▸

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 96 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the AUBUSSON_SAPC weather station, 9.9 km away at 486 m; the village itself is at 515 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at AHUN LYCEE, 10.6 km away at 460 m, over 21 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 55 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 976 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at FRANSECHES, 2.2 km away at 500 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23007/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23007/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23007/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23007/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23086
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23105
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23197
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23007
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
Palisse	19	66 km S	224	16.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Biches	58	164 km NE	240	16.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Montreuillon	58	184 km NE	243	24.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Tarnac	19	37 km S	333	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vitrac	15	134 km S	268	18.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Lachaux	63	117 km E	273	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tarnac	19	37 km S	333	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Palisse	19	66 km S	224	16.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Lachaux	63	117 km E	273	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Vitrac	15	134 km S	268	18.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Biches	58	164 km NE	240	16.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Montreuillon	58	184 km NE	243	24.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 53 % · 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 Ars'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
Davignac	19	58 km S	235	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Yrieix-la-Montagne	23	14 km S	219	14	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Domeyrot	23	28 km N	229	10.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Champagnac-le-Vieux	43	132 km SE	191	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Amandin	15	88 km SE	225	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-Chambre	07	229 km SE	255	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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