Paulhac

Haute-Loire · CC Brioude Sud Auvergne · INSEE 43147

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 19.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Paulhac (INSEE 43147) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC Brioude Sud Auvergne. Population 590 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 19.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 18 % of the 17,186 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.55	10	5.52
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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

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

Trajectory

1968: 375 peak 2007: 659 2023: 590 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 658 (2012) → 590 (2023): -10.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 561 (1990) → 590 (2023): 5.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 325, of which 5.5 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.1 km EFood shop — 2.4 km EPharmacy — 2.4 km EBakery — 2.8 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 (Brioude): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Brioude): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Brioude): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Brioude): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Paulhac): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33

Days at or below 0 °C 77.5

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 78 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FONTANNES weather station, 5.7 km away at 435 m; the village itself is at 467 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FONTANNES, 5.7 km away at 435 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 634 mm of rain a year, spread over 94 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BRIOUDE, 2.4 km away at 434 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43147/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43147/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43147/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43147/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43040
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43147
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
Plaine-de-Walsch	57	473 km NE	601	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montignargues	30	167 km SE	556	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Contz-les-Bains	57	514 km NE	548	21.5	Few services	no figures
Autouillet	78	412 km N	665	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vaast-de-Longmont	60	447 km N	654	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Kindwiller	67	510 km NE	653	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montignargues	30	167 km SE	556	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Autouillet	78	412 km N	665	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vaast-de-Longmont	60	447 km N	654	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Plaine-de-Walsch	57	473 km NE	601	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Kindwiller	67	510 km NE	653	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Contz-les-Bains	57	514 km NE	548	21.5	Few services	no figures

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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 Paulhac'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
Brevans	39	261 km NE	668	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Velet	70	292 km NE	369	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Venon	38	193 km E	841	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Crissey	39	256 km NE	687	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Baverans	39	262 km NE	498	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Frugerès-les-Mines	43	9.9 km N	548	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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