Villefranche-de-Lonchat

Dordogne · CC de Montaigne Montravel et Gurson · INSEE 24584

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 51/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 86 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villefranche-de-Lonchat (INSEE 24584) is in Dordogne (24), part of CC de Montaigne Montravel et Gurson. Population 998 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 51/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 86 % of the 14,324 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.49	20	9.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.86	10	8.58
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (LE LOOONG CHAT · CHEZ LOULOU · SNLGM COOKING · JANTJIES CHRIS MARIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-FRANCOIS KLOPSTEIN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LONCHAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VILLEFRANCHE DE LONCHAT LPR RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (MAIRIE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE NATHALIE · FANNY COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	4	LE LOOONG CHAT · CHEZ LOULOU · SNLGM COOKING · JANTJIES CHRIS MARIE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEAN-FRANCOIS KLOPSTEIN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LONCHAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	VILLEFRANCHE DE LONCHAT LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	COIFFURE NATHALIE · FANNY COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Saturday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 814 2023: 998 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 968 (2012) → 998 (2023): 3.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 735 (1990) → 998 (2023): 35.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 603, of which 11.4 % second homes and 10.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 4.0 km E 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 (Villefranche-de-Lonchat): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-de-Gurson): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Villefranche-de-Lonchat): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villefranche-de-Lonchat): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Villefranche-de-Lonchat): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.9

Days at or below 0 °C 48.3

Muggy days a summer 8.8

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LAMOTHE MONTRAV weather station, 12.4 km away at 9 m; the village itself is at 101 m. ^[11]

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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONTPON, 13.7 km away at 79 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 774 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LAMOTHE MONTRAV, 12.4 km away at 9 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24584/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-03— https://data.datatourisme.fr/23/f54637bc-deb3-3938-9799-1b3436a060df— “Marché traditionnel du samedi.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24584/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24584/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 24584/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 24584
INSEE BPE 2025 — 24454
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Latour-de-France	66	320 km SE	1,043	34.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Plancy-l'Abbaye	10	501 km NE	960	43	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 70 %
Flavignac	87	117 km NE	1,058	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 50 %
Champagnac-de-Belair	24	71 km NE	767	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Sap-en-Auge	61	439 km N	926	55.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 86 %
Pezou	41	335 km N	1,101	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 89 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Champagnac-de-Belair	24	71 km NE	767	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Flavignac	87	117 km NE	1,058	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 50 %
Latour-de-France	66	320 km SE	1,043	34.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Pezou	41	335 km N	1,101	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 89 %
Sap-en-Auge	61	439 km N	926	55.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 86 %
Plancy-l'Abbaye	10	501 km NE	960	43	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 70 %

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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 Villefranche-de-Lonchat'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes	24	18 km NE	1,012	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Préchac	33	69 km SW	1,061	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Cubjac-Auvézère-Val d'Ans	24	76 km NE	1,127	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Sarliac-sur-l'Isle	24	72 km NE	1,054	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Fourques-sur-Garonne	47	56 km S	1,293	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Pérignac	17	86 km NW	965	52.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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