Douelle

Lot · CA du Grand Cahors · INSEE 46088

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

Partly served 53.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 93 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Douelle (INSEE 46088) is in Lot (46), part of CA du Grand Cahors. Population 830 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/46088-douelle

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 93 % of the 15,439 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.49	20	9.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.7	10	6.98
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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) (LES PASTIS DE JULIE · LA BOULANGERIE DU PONT). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'EPICERIE DU VIEUX DOUELLE). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU VIEUX DOUELLE · RESTAURANT LA MARINE · ANTINEA · LUAN THAI). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MANON THIVEAUD, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (DOUELLE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE DOUELLE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (DOUELLE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL DE L'ECLUSE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LES PASTIS DE JULIE · LA BOULANGERIE DU PONT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'EPICERIE DU VIEUX DOUELLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	AUBERGE DU VIEUX DOUELLE · RESTAURANT LA MARINE · ANTINEA · LUAN THAI	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	MANON THIVEAUD, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	DOUELLE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE DOUELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	DOUELLE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 MUNICIPAL DE L'ECLUSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 673 peak 2012: 841 2023: 830 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 841 (2012) → 830 (2023): -1.3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 693 (1990) → 830 (2023): 19.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 549, of which 12.9 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 4.2 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 (Douelle): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

GP (Douelle): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pradines): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Douelle): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 47.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 21.8

Muggy days a summer 10.7▸

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 48 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CATUS weather station, 12.2 km away at 307 m; the village itself is at 111 m. ^[11]

The village sits 196 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ANGLARS, 12.3 km away at 104 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 854 mm of rain a year, spread over 104 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CATUS, 9.7 km away at 165 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 — 46088/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/22/a33a8833-9c9c-3425-afcd-11acdbca0e25— “<p>Petit marché situé place de l’école tous les vendredis, de 17h à 19h”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46088/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46088/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46088/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46088
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46224
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
Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour	19	87 km NE	928	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 15 % · humidity 21 %
Livernon	46	43 km NE	722	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Julien-de-Cassagnas	30	227 km E	734	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 43 %
Lavaveix-les-Mines	23	187 km N	684	43	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Clessé	79	285 km NW	923	47.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %
Bidarray	64	255 km SW	693	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Livernon	46	43 km NE	722	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour	19	87 km NE	928	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 15 % · humidity 21 %
Lavaveix-les-Mines	23	187 km N	684	43	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Julien-de-Cassagnas	30	227 km E	734	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 43 %
Bidarray	64	255 km SW	693	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Clessé	79	285 km NW	923	47.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Douelle'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
Badens	11	167 km SE	749	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Montséret	11	192 km SE	616	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Cambounet-sur-le-Sor	81	116 km SE	978	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Moux	11	177 km SE	719	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Thézan-des-Corbières	11	190 km SE	573	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Poilhes	34	189 km SE	548	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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