Gorses

Identity

Gorses (INSEE 46125) is in Lot (46), part of CC Grand-Figeac. Population 345 (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/46125-gorses

Vitality score

Vitality score 32/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 18,056 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.

Services

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES COUZINS DU LOT). ^[3]

3 × Restaurant (AU COMPTOIR · HOTEL COLOMBIE · LA PRESQU'ILE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Hotel (HOTEL COLOMBIE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 319 (2012) → 345 (2023): 8.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 511 (1990) → 345 (2023): -32.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 276, of which 22.5 % second homes and 15.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Gorses): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Latronquière): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sousceyrac-en-Quercy): 8.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Leyme): 9.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Gorses): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LATRONQUIERE weather station, 3.5 km away at 658 m; the village itself is at 622 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at COMIAC, 19.1 km away at 562 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 60 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 1,364 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 9.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LATRONQUIERE, 3.5 km away at 658 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

30 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 126,950 € — 1,259 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Lot is 1,246 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46125/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46125/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46125/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46125/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46125
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46160
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46311
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46170
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025