Lacave

Lot · CC Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne · INSEE 46144

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

No daily shops 19.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lacave (INSEE 46144) is in Lot (46), part of CC Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne. Population 271 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/46144-lacave

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 17,546 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.62	10	6.24
Housing mix	0.33	5	1.63

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 2 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]

2 × Restaurant (LA GARIOTTE · RESTAURANT BOUTIQUE LES MIJOTEURS). ^[3,4]

2 × Hotel (LE CHATEAU DE LA TREYNE · HOTEL RESTAURANT DU PONT DE L'OUYSSE AUBERGE DU P). ^[3,4]

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

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

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	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)	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	2	LA GARIOTTE · RESTAURANT BOUTIQUE LES MIJOTEURS	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)	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	2	LE CHATEAU DE LA TREYNE · HOTEL RESTAURANT DU PONT DE L'OUYSSE AUBERGE DU P	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA RIVIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 302 2023: 271 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 282 (2012) → 271 (2023): -3.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 241 (1990) → 271 (2023): 12.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 252, of which 33.7 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.5 km WFood shop — 3.9 km WBakery — 4.0 km NGP — 8.3 km SWPharmacy — 8.4 km SW 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 (Saint-Sozy): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pinsac): 3.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Payrac): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Payrac): 8.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Pinsac): 3.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 50▸

Days at or below 0 °C 57

Muggy days a summer 5.4

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 50 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SOUILLAC-PRESSIGNAC weather station, 10.3 km away at 101 m; the village itself is at 103 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at GOURDON, 16.8 km away at 260 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 157 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 891 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PAYRAC - BOURG, 8.6 km away at 279 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46144/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46144/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46144/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46144/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46293
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46220
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46215
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
Le Rozel	50	576 km NW	258	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 35 %
Vaux-sur-Eure	27	467 km N	272	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Durfort	07	243 km E	274	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Corn	46	38 km SE	238	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Les Brunels	11	165 km S	268	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Changey	52	451 km NE	285	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Corn	46	38 km SE	238	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Les Brunels	11	165 km S	268	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Durfort	07	243 km E	274	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Changey	52	451 km NE	285	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Vaux-sur-Eure	27	467 km N	272	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Le Rozel	50	576 km NW	258	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 35 %

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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 Lacave'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
Aussac	81	115 km S	255	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Viols-en-Laval	34	211 km SE	231	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Lanzac	46	6.7 km NW	563	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-André-d'Olérargues	30	244 km E	443	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Montagnac	30	229 km SE	249	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Clermont-Savès	32	143 km S	387	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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