Saint-Marcel-du-Périgord

Identity

Saint-Marcel-du-Périgord (INSEE 24445) is in Dordogne (24), part of CC des Bastides Dordogne-Périgord. Population 137 (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/24445-saint-marcel-du-perigord

Vitality score

Vitality score 7.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 13,366 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

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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 155 (2012) → 137 (2023): -11.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 137 (2023): -2.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 113, of which 32.7 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Saint-Michel-de-Villadeix): 8.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lalinde): 8.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Georges-de-Montclard): 7.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Val de Louyre et Caudeau): 8.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Pressignac-Vicq): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

An average of 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the BERGERAC TABAC weather station, 16.6 km away at 33 m; the village itself is at 125 m. ^[13]

The village sits 92 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 7 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at BERGERAC TABAC, 16.6 km away at 33 m, over 17 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 92 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 902 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at STE ALVERE, 8.4 km away at 167 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 — 24445/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24445/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24445/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24445/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24468
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24223
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24414
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24362
12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24338
13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024