Padirac

Lot · CC Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne · INSEE 46213

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

Few services 29.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Padirac (INSEE 46213) is in Lot (46), part of CC Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne. Population 182 (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/46213-padirac

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 15,408 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	0.81	20	16.3
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.64	10	6.38
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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]

6 × Restaurant (L'OUSTAL DE JEANNE · LA REMORQUE LE SNACK · LE PAS DU DIABLE · L AUBERGE DU GOUFFRE DE PADIRAC). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Hotel (LA CHARMILLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAPFUN ROCA D'AMOUR). ^[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, 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	6	L'OUSTAL DE JEANNE · LA REMORQUE LE SNACK · LE PAS DU DIABLE · L AUBERGE DU GOUFFRE DE PADIRAC	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [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	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LA CHARMILLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAPFUN ROCA D'AMOUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 177 peak 2007: 188 2023: 182 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 184 (2012) → 182 (2023): -1.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 160 (1990) → 182 (2023): 13.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 133, of which 24.8 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.9 km SBakery — 2.3 km SGP — 5.0 km WPharmacy — 5.0 km WFood shop — 5.1 km W 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 (Thégra): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Alvignac): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Alvignac): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Alvignac): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Thégra): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.9

Days at or below 0 °C 38.6

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LUNEGARDE weather station, 18.8 km away at 383 m; the village itself is at 358 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LUNEGARDE, 18.8 km away at 383 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 980 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GRAMAT - PARC, 9.3 km away at 312 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46213/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46213/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46213/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46213/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46317
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46003
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
Lavardin	41	329 km N	179	20.5	Few services	no figures
Saint-Capraise-d'Eymet	24	100 km W	177	25.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Armentières-sur-Avre	27	434 km N	162	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 84 %
Vigeville	23	149 km N	164	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Ceilloux	63	165 km NE	174	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Pindères	47	151 km SW	189	27.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Capraise-d'Eymet	24	100 km W	177	25.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Vigeville	23	149 km N	164	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Pindères	47	151 km SW	189	27.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Ceilloux	63	165 km NE	174	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Lavardin	41	329 km N	179	20.5	Few services	no figures
Armentières-sur-Avre	27	434 km N	162	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 84 %

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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 Padirac'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
Paulin	24	37 km NW	246	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Seine	58	265 km NE	187	13.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Perdoux	46	30 km SE	196	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Puyrolland	17	229 km NW	182	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Bazaiges	36	185 km N	229	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Besse	24	55 km W	148	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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