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Soucirac

Lot · CC Quercy - Bouriane · INSEE 46308

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 6.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Soucirac (INSEE 46308) is in Lot (46), part of CC Quercy - Bouriane. Population 102 (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/46308-soucirac

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 10,792 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.49104.9
Housing mix0.0950.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 106 peak 1999: 116 2023: 102 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 102 (2012) → 102 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 103 (1990) → 102 (2023): -1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 121, of which 45.5 % second homes and 5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 4.9 km E (Montfaucon)Bakery — 6.7 km NW (Le Vigan-en-Quercy)GP — 6.8 km NW (Le Vigan-en-Quercy)Primary school — 6.9 km NW (Le Vigan-en-Quercy)Pharmacy — 8.1 km SW (Saint-Germain-du-Bel-Air)
Food shop — 4.9 km EBakery — 6.7 km NWGP — 6.8 km NWPrimary school — 6.9 km NWPharmacy — 8.1 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 (Le Vigan-en-Quercy): 6.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Montfaucon): 4.9 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Le Vigan-en-Quercy): 6.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-du-Bel-Air): 8.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Le Vigan-en-Quercy): 6.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the GOURDON weather station, 9.7 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 364 m. [11]

The village sits 104 m above 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 2 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at GOURDON, 9.7 km away at 260 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 104 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 1,034 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ST GERM. - COMB, 9.1 km away at 251 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46308/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46308/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46308/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46308/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46334
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46204
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46267
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Orgeix09224 km S10212.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
La Besseyre-Saint-Mary43154 km E1032.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Bairols06454 km E10511.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Courbiac4752 km SW1065.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 84 %
Saint-André81114 km SE1026.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Fâchin58319 km NE1065No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courbiac4752 km SW1065.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 84 %
Saint-André81114 km SE1026.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
La Besseyre-Saint-Mary43154 km E1032.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Orgeix09224 km S10212.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Fâchin58319 km NE1065No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Bairols06454 km E10511.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Soucirac'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Dunet36197 km N1036No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Menestreau58331 km NE964.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bolozon01351 km NE1039No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-des-Tripiers48150 km E9911.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumont-en-Diois26314 km E10319.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Avrée58298 km NE835.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %