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Saint-Pardoux-le-Neuf

Creuse · CC Creuse Grand Sud · INSEE 23228

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Pardoux-le-Neuf (INSEE 23228) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Grand Sud. Population 189 (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/23228-saint-pardoux-le-neuf

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 15,632 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.65106.52
Housing mix0.6653.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 146 peak 2017: 192 2023: 189 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 181 (2012) → 189 (2023): 4.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 164 (1990) → 189 (2023): 15.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 129, of which 17.1 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.9 km SE (Néoux)GP — 3.5 km SW (Moutier-Rozeille)Food shop — 4.5 km NW (Aubusson)Bakery — 5.5 km NW (Aubusson)Pharmacy — 5.8 km NW (Aubusson)
Primary school — 2.9 km SEGP — 3.5 km SWFood shop — 4.5 km NWBakery — 5.5 km NWPharmacy — 5.8 km NW 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 (Aubusson): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Aubusson): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Moutier-Rozeille): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Aubusson): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Néoux): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the NEOUX weather station, 2.8 km away at 585 m; the village itself is at 590 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at FELLETIN, 6.8 km away at 635 m, over 29 summers. [11]

An average of 965 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at NEOUX, 2.8 km away at 585 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 — 23228/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23228/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23228/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23228/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23008
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23140
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23142
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Azy-le-Vif58122 km NE1887.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Bonnefoi61330 km N18715.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Avéron-Bergelle32297 km SW18610.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 15 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Jourdes86140 km W19215.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Asnières-en-Poitou79189 km W1889.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 79 %
Asnières-sur-Blour86114 km W1938.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Asnières-sur-Blour86114 km W1938.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Azy-le-Vif58122 km NE1887.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Jourdes86140 km W19215.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Asnières-en-Poitou79189 km W1889.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 79 %
Avéron-Bergelle32297 km SW18610.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 15 % · humidity 7 %
Bonnefoi61330 km N18715.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · 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-Pardoux-le-Neuf'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chambéria39263 km E20015.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Vescles39265 km E18110.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Soucia39279 km E17515.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Maligny21216 km NE1718.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Ailleux42133 km E17513No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Mont71145 km NE1739.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %