Bretenoux

Lot · CC Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne · INSEE 46038

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

Partly served 50.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 79 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bretenoux (INSEE 46038) is in Lot (46), part of CC Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne. Population 1,468 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/46038-bretenoux

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 11,800 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.66	20	13.11
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.71	10	7.12
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BOULANGE DE BRETENOUX · AU SAINT HONORE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ANATIM). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (LIDL). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (PIZZA AUTENTICA · LE KIOSQUE A PIZZAS · BRETDRIVE · CHEZ JU). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-LOUIS LACROIX, MÉDECIN · ERIC LANGLOIS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE D ORLINDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF CERE ET DORDOGNE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (BURLAN & PERRIER). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA BOURGNATELLE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Collège.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LA BOULANGE DE BRETENOUX · AU SAINT HONORE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	ANATIM	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	LIDL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	5	PIZZA AUTENTICA · LE KIOSQUE A PIZZAS · BRETDRIVE · CHEZ JU	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	2	JEAN-LOUIS LACROIX, MÉDECIN · ERIC LANGLOIS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE D ORLINDE	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF CERE ET DORDOGNE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	BURLAN & PERRIER	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA BOURGNATELLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,071 2023: 1,468 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,352 (2012) → 1,468 (2023): 8.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,211 (1990) → 1,468 (2023): 21.2 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 929, of which 5.5 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Bretenoux): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Bretenoux): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bretenoux): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bretenoux): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bretenoux): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 29

Days at or below 0 °C 18.1▸

Muggy days a summer 5.7

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the COMIAC weather station, 13.9 km away at 562 m; the village itself is at 136 m. ^[10]

The village sits 426 m below 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at COMIAC, 13.9 km away at 562 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 426 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 928 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BRETENOUX, 0.3 km away at 136 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 — 46038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-05— https://data.datatourisme.fr/22/e9297be1-06a3-32b1-928f-05d13ba3a304— “Marché à Bretenoux”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46038
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
Ahun	23	131 km N	1,394	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Aucamville	82	133 km S	1,562	50	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Lanvollon	22	553 km NW	1,969	66	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Cancon	47	105 km SW	1,379	55.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Sourdun	77	419 km N	1,541	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
La Clayette	71	245 km NE	1,563	60.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 8 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cancon	47	105 km SW	1,379	55.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Ahun	23	131 km N	1,394	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Aucamville	82	133 km S	1,562	50	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
La Clayette	71	245 km NE	1,563	60.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 8 % · humidity 64 %
Sourdun	77	419 km N	1,541	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Lanvollon	22	553 km NW	1,969	66	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Bretenoux'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
La Mothe-Saint-Héray	79	221 km NW	1,652	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Prignac-et-Marcamps	33	184 km W	1,494	44.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre	65	257 km SW	1,144	40	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Bourg	33	189 km W	2,244	55.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vergt	24	89 km W	1,773	67.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Cavignac	33	176 km W	2,372	73.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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