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Saint-Pancrace

Dordogne · CC Dronne et Belle · INSEE 24474

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

No daily shops 11.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Pancrace (INSEE 24474) is in Dordogne (24), part of CC Dronne et Belle. Population 144 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). [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/24474-saint-pancrace

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 13,781 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 trend0.62106.16
Housing mix0.6953.45

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 150 peak 2017: 187 2023: 144 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 154 (2012) → 144 (2023): -6.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 129 (1990) → 144 (2023): 11.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 103, of which 15.5 % second homes and 14.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.7 km SE (Champagnac-de-Belair)Bakery — 4.8 km SE (Champagnac-de-Belair)GP — 5.0 km SE (Champagnac-de-Belair)Pharmacy — 5.0 km SE (Champagnac-de-Belair)Food shop — 5.3 km S (Brantôme en Périgord)
Primary school — 4.7 km SEBakery — 4.8 km SEGP — 5.0 km SEPharmacy — 5.0 km SEFood shop — 5.3 km S 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 (Champagnac-de-Belair): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Brantôme en Périgord): 5.3 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Champagnac-de-Belair): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Champagnac-de-Belair): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Champagnac-de-Belair): 4.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the NONTRON-HOPITAL weather station, 11.1 km away at 202 m; the village itself is at 171 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ST MARTIN DE FRESSENGEAS, 15.4 km away at 277 m, over 19 summers. [10]

That station sits 106 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 941 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at BRANTOME, 8 km away at 129 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24474/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24474/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24474/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24474/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24096
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24064
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Fréauville76492 km N14310.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 54 % · humidity 79 %
Jasses64261 km SW1429.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 59 %
Ligné1670 km NW1447No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
La Pellerine49230 km N1419.8No daily shopsno figures
Viger65269 km S14115.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Ainvelle88486 km NE1408.8No daily shopsno figures
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ligné1670 km NW1447No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
La Pellerine49230 km N1419.8No daily shopsno figures
Jasses64261 km SW1429.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 59 %
Viger65269 km S14115.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Ainvelle88486 km NE1408.8No daily shopsno figures
Fréauville76492 km N14310.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 54 % · 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 Saint-Pancrace'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
Ligné1670 km NW1447No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Raix1677 km NW1348.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Rochechinard26362 km E13111.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Campuzan65241 km S1479.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Barbezières1680 km NW1347.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Le Pondy18217 km NE14711.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %