Saint-Médard

Lot · CA du Grand Cahors · INSEE 46280

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

Few services 21.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Médard (INSEE 46280) is in Lot (46), part of CA du Grand Cahors. Population 198 (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/46280-saint-medard

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 15,873 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	5	0
Population trend	0.96	10	9.56
Housing mix	0.43	5	2.13

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 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 × Restaurant (LE CERCLE DES SAVEURS). ^[3,4]

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	1	LE CERCLE DES SAVEURS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 134 2023: 198 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 160 (2012) → 198 (2023): 23.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 136 (1990) → 198 (2023): 45.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 28.7 % second homes and 4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.6 km SWGP — 4.1 km NEBakery — 4.2 km NEFood shop — 4.2 km NEPharmacy — 6.5 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 (Catus): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Catus): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Catus): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Luzech): 6.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Labastide-du-Vert): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.5

Days at or below 0 °C 24.5

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 25 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CATUS weather station, 6.5 km away at 307 m; the village itself is at 141 m. ^[11]

The village sits 166 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ANGLARS, 8.2 km away at 104 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 854 mm of rain a year, spread over 104 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CATUS, 4.3 km away at 165 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 — 46280/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46280/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46280/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46280/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46064
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46182
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46136
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
Saint-Cernin-de-l'Herm	24	23 km NW	193	14.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Chamarand	46	21 km NE	192	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Perdoux	46	62 km E	196	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 43 %
Sainte-Tréphine	22	537 km NW	189	14.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 29 %
La Saucelle	28	456 km N	198	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 49 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Seine	58	314 km NE	187	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 66 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Chamarand	46	21 km NE	192	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Cernin-de-l'Herm	24	23 km NW	193	14.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Perdoux	46	62 km E	196	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Seine	58	314 km NE	187	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 66 % · humidity 36 %
La Saucelle	28	456 km N	198	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 49 % · humidity 21 %
Sainte-Tréphine	22	537 km NW	189	14.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Saint-Médard'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
Saint-Denis-Catus	46	8.5 km E	198	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Bournel	47	50 km W	247	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Plieux	32	79 km SW	159	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Mère	32	77 km SW	200	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
L'Isle-Bouzon	32	81 km SW	252	10.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Lagarde	32	87 km SW	123	5.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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