Gentioux-Pigerolles

Identity

Gentioux-Pigerolles (INSEE 23090) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Grand Sud. Population 398 (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/23090-gentioux-pigerolles

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 17,984 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.

Services

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (BISTRO LES TOURTEREAUX · AMITIE ANVERS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (GENTIOUX PIGEROLLES MAX ATELIER RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GENTIOUX PIGEROLLES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 397 (2012) → 398 (2023): 0.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 367 (1990) → 398 (2023): 8.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 417, of which 40.3 % second homes and 16.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Faux-la-Montagne): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Royère-de-Vassivière): 9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Faux-la-Montagne): 6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Faux-la-Montagne): 6.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gentioux-Pigerolles): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 115 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VALLIERES weather station, 12.8 km away at 560 m; the village itself is at 786 m. ^[11]

The village sits 226 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at FELLETIN, 18.1 km away at 635 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 151 m below 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 1,537 mm of rain a year, spread over 157 days — about 9.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at GENTIOUX, 0.1 km away at 794 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23090/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23090/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23090/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23090/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23077
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23165
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23090
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024