Montgesty

Lot · CA du Grand Cahors · INSEE 46205

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

Few services 20/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montgesty (INSEE 46205) is in Lot (46), part of CA du Grand Cahors. Population 319 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 17,924 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.67	10	6.68
Housing mix	0.17	5	0.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONTGESTY LPR RP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	MONTGESTY LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MONTGESTY	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 309 peak 2017: 339 2023: 319 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 316 (2012) → 319 (2023): 0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 273 (1990) → 319 (2023): 16.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 302, of which 41.4 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.9 km NEFood shop — 4.1 km SEGP — 4.1 km SEPrimary school — 4.3 km SEPharmacy — 11.3 km S 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 (Thédirac): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Catus): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Catus): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Luzech): 11.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Catus): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.2

Days at or below 0 °C 32.7

Muggy days a summer 7.2

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CATUS weather station, 3.9 km away at 307 m; the village itself is at 287 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ANGLARS, 11.9 km away at 104 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 183 m below 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 900 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CATUS, 3.9 km away at 307 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 — 46205/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46205/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46205/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46205/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46316
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46064
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46182
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
Leynhac	15	81 km E	297	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Martin-la-Méanne	19	85 km NE	351	25.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 24 % · humidity 50 %
Montcombroux-les-Mines	03	271 km NE	295	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Larodde	63	144 km NE	296	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 53 % · humidity 50 %
Chaussenac	15	102 km NE	218	16	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 61 % · humidity 57 %
Janaillat	23	168 km N	317	9.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Leynhac	15	81 km E	297	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Martin-la-Méanne	19	85 km NE	351	25.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 24 % · humidity 50 %
Chaussenac	15	102 km NE	218	16	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 61 % · humidity 57 %
Larodde	63	144 km NE	296	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 53 % · humidity 50 %
Janaillat	23	168 km N	317	9.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Montcombroux-les-Mines	03	271 km NE	295	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · 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 Montgesty'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
Latouille-Lentillac	46	61 km NE	247	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Touffailles	82	39 km SW	330	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dropt	47	87 km W	359	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Michel	32	146 km SW	252	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Thédirac	46	2.8 km NE	303	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Dode	32	149 km SW	230	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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