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Albiac

Lot · CC Grand-Figeac · INSEE 46002

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

No daily shops 16.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Albiac (INSEE 46002) is in Lot (46), part of CC Grand-Figeac. Population 95 (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/46002-albiac

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 10,121 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 trend11010
Housing mix0.8854.39

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 77 2023: 95 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 91 (2012) → 95 (2023): 4.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 60 (1990) → 95 (2023): 58.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 49, of which 6.1 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 3.3 km SE (Thémines)Primary school — 3.8 km NE (Aynac)Pharmacy — 3.8 km NE (Aynac)GP — 6.3 km W (Gramat)Bakery — 6.6 km W (Gramat)
Food shop — 3.3 km SEPrimary school — 3.8 km NEPharmacy — 3.8 km NEGP — 6.3 km WBakery — 6.6 km W 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 (Gramat): 6.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Thémines): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Gramat): 6.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Aynac): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Aynac): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LUNEGARDE weather station, 13.6 km away at 383 m; the village itself is at 384 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LUNEGARDE, 13.6 km away at 383 m, over 23 summers. [11]

An average of 980 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at GRAMAT - PARC, 6.8 km away at 312 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46002/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46002/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46002/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46002/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46128
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46318
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46012
  11. 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
Sauvignac16158 km W9510.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Gourgon41328 km N968.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Mézerville11168 km S9615.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Nogaret31142 km S9615.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 64 %
Lasserre47137 km SW9912.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 99 %
Arrast-Larrebieu64269 km SW968.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 36 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lasserre47137 km SW9912.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 99 %
Nogaret31142 km S9615.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 64 %
Sauvignac16158 km W9510.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Mézerville11168 km S9615.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Arrast-Larrebieu64269 km SW968.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Gourgon41328 km N968.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Albiac'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
Sauvignac16158 km W9510.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou09192 km S8517.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Orthemale36233 km N1009.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-du-Clocher16194 km NW12610.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Couziers37298 km NW12112.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Fléty58278 km NE943.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %