Espère

Lot · CA du Grand Cahors · INSEE 46095

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

Few services 39.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Espère (INSEE 46095) is in Lot (46), part of CA du Grand Cahors. Population 963 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/46095-espere

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 14,551 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.71	10	7.05
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PEREIRA DE CARVALHO GONCALVES AGOSTINHO). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (ESPERELOT). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DE L'ESPERANCE · METS SAISONS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ESPÈRE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	PEREIRA DE CARVALHO GONCALVES AGOSTINHO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	ESPERELOT	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	2	AUBERGE DE L'ESPERANCE · METS SAISONS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ESPÈRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market: Sunday 7h à 12h30 sur la place du village. ^[5,6]

Confirmed by two independent sources: Commune website and DATAtourisme.

Trajectory

1968: 353 peak 2017: 1,044 2023: 963 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 996 (2012) → 963 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[7,1]

Population 799 (1990) → 963 (2023): 20.5 % over 30 years. ^[8,1]

Dwellings (2023): 492, of which 3.9 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[9]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.3 km SEBakery — 1.5 km SPharmacy — 5.6 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 (Mercuès): 1.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Food shop (Espère): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

GP (Mercuès): 1.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pradines): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

Primary school (Espère): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.5

Days at or below 0 °C 23.9

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 43 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the CATUS weather station, 8.1 km away at 307 m; the village itself is at 139 m. ^[13]

The village sits 168 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at ANGLARS, 13.5 km away at 104 m, over 15 summers. ^[13]

An average of 854 mm of rain a year, spread over 104 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at CATUS, 6 km away at 165 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46095/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.espere.fr/vie-communale/le-marche— “le marché d'Espère vous accueille chaque dimanche, de 7h à 12h30 , sur la place du village”
DATAtourisme 2026-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/22/4e6ec4af-fb85-3587-ad14-d8ebc756a900— “<p>Ce petit marché se tient chaque dimanche matin, de 8h00 à 13h00 - 3 exposants.</p>”
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46095/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46095/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46095/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46191
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46095
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
Cavanac	11	168 km SE	1,021	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montjean	53	428 km NW	1,020	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Marpiré	35	454 km NW	1,023	31.8	Few services	no figures
Serres-Morlaàs	64	186 km SW	870	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Susville	38	351 km E	1,134	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 21 %
Ardillières	17	247 km NW	890	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cavanac	11	168 km SE	1,021	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Serres-Morlaàs	64	186 km SW	870	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Ardillières	17	247 km NW	890	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Susville	38	351 km E	1,134	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 21 %
Montjean	53	428 km NW	1,020	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Marpiré	35	454 km NW	1,023	31.8	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 Espère'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
Cavanac	11	168 km SE	1,021	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	159 km SE	1,025	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Cruscades	11	187 km SE	936	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Barbaira	11	173 km SE	805	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Ventenac-Cabardès	11	156 km SE	962	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Pomas	11	172 km SE	1,017	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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