Lépinas

Creuse · CC Creuse Sud Ouest · INSEE 23107

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

No daily shops 12.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lépinas (INSEE 23107) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Sud Ouest. Population 145 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 12.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 13,841 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.14	10	1.44
Housing mix	0.28	5	1.38

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LÉPINAS). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LÉPINAS	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: 306 2023: 145 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 162 (2012) → 145 (2023): -10.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 225 (1990) → 145 (2023): -35.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 174, of which 36.2 % second homes and 14.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.9 km NBakery — 5.3 km NEGP — 6.2 km SWFood shop — 6.3 km SWPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Saint-Hilaire-la-Plaine): 5.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sardent): 6.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sardent): 6.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sardent): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Yrieix-les-Bois): 2.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.8

Days at or below 0 °C 84.1

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MAISONNISSES weather station, 2.1 km away at 563 m; the village itself is at 608 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at AHUN LYCEE, 8 km away at 460 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 148 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 1,179 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MAISONNISSES, 2.1 km away at 563 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 — 23107/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23107/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23107/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23107/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23168
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23250
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
Mornay	71	194 km E	146	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Barriac-les-Bosquets	15	107 km S	140	14	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lastic	15	146 km SE	109	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 24 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire	63	54 km E	144	5.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Trémouille-Saint-Loup	63	82 km SE	140	13.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Séniergues	46	156 km S	146	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Hilaire	63	54 km E	144	5.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Trémouille-Saint-Loup	63	82 km SE	140	13.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Barriac-les-Bosquets	15	107 km S	140	14	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lastic	15	146 km SE	109	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 24 % · humidity 100 %
Séniergues	46	156 km S	146	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Mornay	71	194 km E	146	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Lépinas'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-Hilaire	63	54 km E	144	5.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Vezels-Roussy	15	150 km S	132	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Salins	15	105 km S	145	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chadenet	48	219 km SE	123	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Anterrieux	15	163 km SE	122	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chambon-sur-Dolore	63	146 km SE	141	10.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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