Saint-Avit-Sénieur

Identity

Saint-Avit-Sénieur (INSEE 24379) is in Dordogne (24), part of CC des Bastides Dordogne-Périgord. Population 422 (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/24379-saint-avit-senieur

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 66 % of the 17,974 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]

4 × Restaurant (LE REPERE DE L'HERMINE · LA CONCHA · LA BOUGEOTTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST AVIT SENIEUR AP). ^[3]

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, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 460 (2012) → 422 (2023): -8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 365 (1990) → 422 (2023): 15.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 369, of which 33.6 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Beaumontois en Périgord): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Beaumontois en Périgord): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Beaumontois en Périgord): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Beaumontois en Périgord): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Avit-Sénieur): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LOLME weather station, 7.6 km away at 205 m; the village itself is at 156 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BELVES, 11.1 km away at 238 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 82 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 856 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BEAUMONT, 4 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

42 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 200,000 € — 1,415 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Dordogne is 1,186 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24379/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24379/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24379/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24379/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24028
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24379
10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025