Bach

Lot · CC du Pays de Lalbenque-Limogne · INSEE 46013

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

Few services 22.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bach (INSEE 46013) is in Lot (46), part of CC du Pays de Lalbenque-Limogne. Population 211 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 22.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 16,263 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.56	5	2.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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: 144 2023: 211 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 165 (2012) → 211 (2023): 27.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 211 (2023): 50.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 163, of which 22.1 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.1 km EFood shop — 4.2 km EBakery — 5.9 km NGP — 9.5 km NEPharmacy — 15.0 km SE 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 (Concots): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Varaire): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Limogne-en-Quercy): 9.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Caylus): 15 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Varaire): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 41.8

Days at or below 0 °C 50.2

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 42 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST GERY weather station, 16 km away at 137 m; the village itself is at 319 m. ^[12]

The village sits 182 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LE MONTAT, 19 km away at 260 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 59 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 877 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LIMOGNE, 9.8 km away at 303 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46013/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46013/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46013/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46013/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46073
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46328
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 82038
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
Briant	71	291 km NE	222	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-sous-Uchon	71	341 km NE	198	16.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Dizier-les-Domaines	23	221 km N	207	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Clitourps	50	633 km N	225	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Frajou	31	131 km SW	204	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 97 %
Le Brévedent	14	552 km N	201	22.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Frajou	31	131 km SW	204	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Dizier-les-Domaines	23	221 km N	207	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Briant	71	291 km NE	222	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-sous-Uchon	71	341 km NE	198	16.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Le Brévedent	14	552 km N	201	22.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Clitourps	50	633 km N	225	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 51 % · 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 Bach'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
Espinas	82	21 km SE	211	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Salles	81	42 km SE	191	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Noailles	81	45 km SE	205	11.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Montlaux	04	334 km E	209	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Vaylats	46	2.6 km SW	327	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Suze	26	276 km E	245	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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