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Ferrensac

Lot-et-Garonne · CC des Bastides en Haut Agenais Périgord · INSEE 47096

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

No daily shops 18.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ferrensac (INSEE 47096) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC des Bastides en Haut Agenais Périgord. Population 205 (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/47096-ferrensac

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 16,110 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 food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.7106.99
Housing mix0.6653.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). [3]

Not found in the commune: 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)1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 217 peak 2012: 219 2023: 205 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 219 (2012) → 205 (2023): -6.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 171 (1990) → 205 (2023): 19.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 17 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 2.5 km W (Castillonnès)Food shop — 2.8 km SW (Castillonnès)Primary school — 3.1 km W (Castillonnès)GP — 3.2 km W (Castillonnès)Pharmacy — 3.4 km W (Castillonnès)
Bakery — 2.5 km WFood shop — 2.8 km SWPrimary school — 3.1 km WGP — 3.2 km WPharmacy — 3.4 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 (Castillonnès): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Castillonnès): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Castillonnès): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Castillonnès): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Castillonnès): 3.1 km to the 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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the DOUZAINS weather station, 6 km away at 136 m; the village itself is at 78 m. [9]

The village sits 58 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [9]

An average of 825 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at DOUDRAC, 5.3 km away at 95 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47096/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47096/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47096/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47096/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47057
  9. 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
Lailly89458 km NE19917.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 43 %
Corquoy18282 km NE19812.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 47 %
Saint-Prix-lès-Arnay21407 km NE20314.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 36 %
Chatenet17103 km NW22117.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 85 %
Gigors-et-Lozeron26354 km E22521.3Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 49 %
Consac17129 km NW23617.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 96 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chatenet17103 km NW22117.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 85 %
Consac17129 km NW23617.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 96 %
Corquoy18282 km NE19812.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 47 %
Gigors-et-Lozeron26354 km E22521.3Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 49 %
Saint-Prix-lès-Arnay21407 km NE20314.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 36 %
Lailly89458 km NE19917.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 43 %

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