Lacapelle-Biron

Lot-et-Garonne · CC Fumel Vallée du Lot · INSEE 47123

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 43.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lacapelle-Biron (INSEE 47123) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC Fumel Vallée du Lot. Population 391 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/47123-lacapelle-biron

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 18,009 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.4	10	4.03
Housing mix	0.37	5	1.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (DISTRIBUTION CAPELLAINE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (KAEWLUEA · CHEZ NORBERT). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE SERGE CONSTANTIN). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTIAN SAINT BEAT, MÉDECIN · LAURENT SAINT BEAT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LACAPELLE BIRON LPAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	DISTRIBUTION CAPELLAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	KAEWLUEA · CHEZ NORBERT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE SERGE CONSTANTIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CHRISTIAN SAINT BEAT, MÉDECIN · LAURENT SAINT BEAT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LACAPELLE BIRON LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / 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: 396 peak 2012: 455 2023: 391 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 455 (2012) → 391 (2023): -14.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 433 (1990) → 391 (2023): -9.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 348, of which 31.6 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 5.9 km EPharmacy — 9.0 km N 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 (Blanquefort-sur-Briolance): 5.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lacapelle-Biron): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lacapelle-Biron): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Monpazier): 9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Lacapelle-Biron): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 31.6

Days at or below 0 °C 48.9

Muggy days a summer 6.5

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LACAPELLE-BIRON-PAILLOLES weather station, 1.4 km away at 195 m; the village itself is at 170 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LACAPELLE-BIRON, 1.7 km away at 235 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 65 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 938 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LACAPELLE-BIRON-PAILLOLES, 1.4 km away at 195 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 — 47123/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47123/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47123/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47123/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47029
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47123
INSEE BPE 2025 — 24280
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
Chaux-des-Crotenay	39	456 km NE	409	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Colombières-sur-Orb	34	203 km SE	498	43.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
La Livinière	34	200 km SE	530	46.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Béat-Lez	31	188 km S	385	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Fournels	48	178 km E	371	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 33 % · winter 58 %
Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye	21	436 km NE	364	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fournels	48	178 km E	371	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 33 % · winter 58 %
Saint-Béat-Lez	31	188 km S	385	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
La Livinière	34	200 km SE	530	46.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Colombières-sur-Orb	34	203 km SE	498	43.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye	21	436 km NE	364	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %
Chaux-des-Crotenay	39	456 km NE	409	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Lacapelle-Biron'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
Sauzet	46	35 km SE	531	56	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Tombebœuf	47	37 km W	443	44.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Carlux	24	48 km NE	671	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Lévignacq	40	177 km W	362	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Nonards	19	86 km NE	482	39.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Calviac-en-Périgord	24	45 km NE	546	37.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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