Saint-Pierre-Bellevue

Identity

Saint-Pierre-Bellevue (INSEE 23232) is in Creuse (23), part of CC Creuse Sud Ouest. Population 215 (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/23232-saint-pierre-bellevue

Vitality score

Vitality score 13/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 16,431 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

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

2 × Restaurant (PIZZA POP · BROSSE LUDWIG). ^[3,4]

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

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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 221 (2012) → 215 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 302 (1990) → 215 (2023): -28.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 251, of which 47.4 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Pontarion): 9.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Hilaire-le-Château): 7.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Pardoux-Morterolles): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Royère-de-Vassivière): 8.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Le Monteil-au-Vicomte): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

An average of 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 98 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the PONTARION_SAPC weather station, 9.1 km away at 455 m; the village itself is at 619 m. ^[13]

The village sits 164 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at BOURGANEUF, 12.9 km away at 513 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 106 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 1,468 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 9.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at ROYERE VASSIVIE, 8.3 km away at 711 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23232/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23232/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23232/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 23232/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23155
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23202
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23227
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23165
12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 23134
13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024